SEC: Leech charged with cherry picking trades for WAMCO funds
The SEC has charged Ken Leech with fraud. The bond trader was former co-chief investment officer at Western Asset Management (WAMCO), which holds US$336.1...
TP ICAP offers secondary market ATS
TP ICAP has launched an electronic alternative trading system (ATS) for the secondary trading of US structured products, growing the ATS ecosystem in the...
Ex-BlackRock, Bloomberg exec joins SimCorp sales
Jesper Tyrer has joined SimCorp as managing director and head of sales for APAC. He is based in Singapore.
Investment management solutions provider SimCorp reported...
Aladdin users access Tradeweb’s AllTrade for US and European Credit
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb Markets, has entered the next phase of its previously announced platform integration with BlackRock’s Aladdin order execution management system (OEMS)....
Generali partners with Premialab for multi-asset investments
Generali Investment Partners has selected Premialab’s technology to support its portfolio management and risk functions in multi-asset investment.
“For over a century, Generali has remained...
The Agency Broker Hub: A look at outsourced trading trends
By Loris Buscaino and Matteo Pezzutti – Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division, Intesa Sanpaolo
Outsourced trading is not a new concept, but...
Traders welcome India’s bond e-trading evolution as regulator shows teeth
The Indian bond market provides a conundrum for investment traders, who fight to gain access to liquidity and pricing information on behalf of their...
Betting the house
Mortgage origination in the US is predicted by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) to rise significantly across 2024-25, yet trading of securitised mortgages still...
Chris Gerlach joins MUFG
MUFG Securities Americas has hired Christopher Gerlach, a highly experienced credit derivatives and cash bond trader, as a director. He joins from BNP Paribas...
Technology : Order management systems : Dan Barnes
Will buy-side firms build the OMS they need?
Complaints about order management system performance still dog the fixed income markets, increasing the likelihood of in-house...
Data analytics is nothing without the people who use it
We are in the midst of a data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle. Every week yields a crop of new articles on...
Big deals in January as UBS predicts record year for US issuance
Corporate bond issuance started the year hot, with over US$211 billion issued globally in the week beginning 4 January, however numbers dropped off pretty...
