Joel Kim of Dimensional Fund Advisors on corporate bond liquidity
With Joel Kim, Head of International Fixed Income and CEO Asia ex-Japan, Dimensional Fund Advisors.
Briefly describe Dimensional Fund Advisors, including its fixed income trading...
Cboe to launch iBoxx USD EM bond index futures on 17 June
Cboe Global Markets intends to list Cboe iBoxx US dollar Emerging Market Bond Index futures (ticker: IEMD) for trading on Cboe Futures Exchange, beginning...
Liontrust promotes McLoughlin and Hendry
Matthew McLoughlin (see profile here), partner and head of trading at Liontrust Asset Management, has been promoted to chief commercial officer, in addition to...
LedgerEdge deploys on OpenFin
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) bond trading platform, is deploying on OpenFin, the desktop interoperability service. LedgerEdge’s web-based graphic user interface (GUI) will...
Tradeweb and MarketAxess beat TRACE growth in November
US electronic credit activity firmed in November. On FINRA’s TRACE tape, combined US investment-grade and high-yield average daily volume (ADV) rose to US$57.8 billion,...
JP Morgan exec appointed in Broadridge hiring spree
Munish Gautam has joined Broadridge’s Trading & Connectivity Solutions (BTCS) business as global head of trading platforms product management.
Based in London, Gautam reports to...
CCPs fight for buy-side membership
Few asset managers are buying into the direct CCP model. Fred Maple reports.
The fanfare with which central counterparties (CCPs) launched new membership categories for...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Making a credit desk simpler
Getting a clear picture of the complex corporate bond market means that at some point, a lot of information has to be brought together...
Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
Viewpoint: Rating changes increase appetite for trading desk data
Dan Barnes asks Emil Parmar, Director of Credit Trading Solutions at London Stock Exchange Group how the better provision of analytics drives more effective...
The credit trading processes you really should have automated by now…
Automation has historically been highly challenging in corporate bond markets for several reasons, but traders say some parts of the workflow ‘ought’ to be...
