Lone Star State drives over $44bn in new US munis at November elections
Voters across the US greenlit more than US$44 billion in new muni bonds at November’s elections, with 55% of all mooted bond measures approved...
Loyer promoted at AXA IM
Yannig Loyer has been named global head of trading, securities financing and derivatives at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). He was appointed ahead of...
Euronext completes acquisition of Global Rate Set Systems
Euronext has completed the acquisition of 75% of the share capital of Global Rate Set Systems (GRSS), a provider of services to benchmark administrators....
Beyond Liquidity: Regulators warn on alternative Libor rates
Libor, the benchmark interest rate that was embedded in hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world, ceased publication at the...
ICMA recommends ECB follows Federal Reserve and SNB policies
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has written to the European Central Bank (ECB) with a “concern that rising dysfunction in the market...
Central Banks should backstop hedge funds arbitraging the basis trade, new Brookings Paper suggests
A research paper to be presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on 28 March, argues that central banks, particularly the...
E-trading hesitation in European corporate bonds
Electronic trading infrastructure is growing in the European corporate bond market, but e-trading rates have stayed static from 2023 onwards, according to a recent...
S&P and CME offload OSTTRA to KKR
S&P Global and CME Group have agreed to sell their post-trade solutions business OSTTRA to global investment firm KKR.
The US$3.1 billion enterprise value deal...
ION connects to FMX Futures Exchange
ION has connected to the FMX Futures Exchange, which opened on 23 September 2024, meaning clients can now trade on the newly launched exchange...
RBC Capital Markets boosts European leadership
RBC Capital Markets has expanded its European flow rates trading team, naming Ian Hale as head of European inflation trading and promoting Callum Maitland...
Ahmed leaves Goldman for Balyasny
Wajih Ahmed has swapped Goldman Sachs for Balyasny Asset Management, joining the firm as a macro portfolio manager after more than a decade with...
Origination: Carlsberg issues more than €4 billion in notes programme
Carlsberg Breweries has issued €4 billion and £500 million in notes under its Euro Medium Term Notes programme.
Proceeds will go towards repaying bank debt...
