CFTC proposes changes to swaps reporting
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has put forward two proposals, the first to amend certain rules regarding the reporting and information regulations applicable...
Citi embraces updated offshore RMB repo scheme
Citi is now a primary liquidity provider for the enhanced offshore RMB bond repurchase (repo) scheme run by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)...
EU lawmakers push for more stringent bond rules
The European Union is looking to tighten the region’s planned green bond standards to mitigate greenwashing from issuers of environmentally-friendly debt.
It calls on sellers...
JP MORGAN: The parametric approach to credit trading
Broadening the range and number of instruments traded in a single order is opening up liquidity.
The DESK spoke with Andreas Koukorinis, global head of...
Frediani appointed head of European expansion at BondCliQ
Gabriele Frediani has been named head of European expansion strategy and execution at BondCliQ, the central bond price facility driven by dealer prices.
Frediani is...
Societe Generale hires Anu Iyanda
Societe Generale has appointed Anu Iyanda as an emerging markets credit trader in London.
Iyanda joins from HSBC, where he spent over three years trading...
FNZ acquiring bond portfolio management tool YieldX
FNZ, the wealth management platform, has agreed to acquire YieldX, the US-based provider of fixed income portfolio management technology, optimisation services and direct indexing...
The broad-based return of risk appetite
Across almost every market spreads tightened over the past last week, looking at Morgan Stanley data, reflecting an apparently synchronised shift in investor sentiment.
When...
Allegra Berman to leave HSBC
Allegra Berman will leave HSBC at the end of September, according to an internal memo seen by The DESK.
Berman joined the firm in 2013,...
Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
CME Group completes migration of BrokerTec trading platform to CME Globex
Market operator CME Group has migrated the US Treasuries trading and US repo functions of BrokerTec business to its CME Globex platform. This follows...
Europe’s liquidity rules are holding up… for now
New guidance on fund liquidity has followed redemption concerns in European equity and bond funds, writes Lynn Strongin-Dodds.
The risk that funds are unable to...
