Bowles joins Vanguard in European expansion
Nick Bowles has joined Vanguard as an active high-yield trader as the firm seeks to build out its actively managed European high-yield and leveraged...
Tradeweb: Transforming Japan’s trading landscape
Transforming Japan’s trading landscape
By Taichi Shibuya, Head of Japan, Tradeweb
How is the market structure for Japanese government bond (JGB) trading divided between electronic and...
European Commission pushes consolidated tape for primary and secondary bond market
The European Commission (EC) has set out a wide ranging process to “stimulate the openness, strength and resilience of the EU's economic and financial...
MarketAxess to buy MuniBrokers
Bond market operator MarketAxess has agreed to buy MuniBrokers, a central electronic venue serving municipal bond inter-dealer brokers and dealers.
MuniBrokers connects 14 municipal securities...
Commercial Bank of Ceylon adopts Bloomberg’s Data License
Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank of Ceylon (ComBank) has adopted Bloomberg’s Data License in order to access reference data, streamline its portfolio management and facilitate...
FILS in Barcelona: Should you be switching from high yield bonds to leveraged loans?
Thierry De Vergnes, managing director of acquisition debt funds at Amundi, presented a compelling case at FILS 2023 for why high yield loans are...
China’s bond futures add to liquidity from index inclusion
Still fighting for the depth of US and Japanese bond markets, China’s liberalisation of derivatives trading bodes well for market liquidity. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
After almost...
Ratings & Analysis: The Fed and BofE call out private credit’s gathering storm
Both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have recently trained their sights on private credit as a source of mounting financial stability...
KfW taps Boerse Stuttgart Digital for digital bond blockchain infrastructure
Boerse Stuttgart Digital, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Europe, now provides the technical infrastructure for KfW, for its new blockchain-based...
Liquidnet and BondAuction collaborate on OMS connectivity
Market operator Liquidnet, and BondAuction, an auction platform for the primary debt capital markets, are partnering to provide their mutual clients access to BondAuction’s...
The Book: Eli Lilly issues 40-year notes as weight loss industry booms
Eli Lilly & Co issued US$6.71 billion in bonds in August, with maturities ranging from three to 40 years.
The firm, which produces weight loss...
IHS Markit claims Liquidnet clients see transaction cost savings of 87%
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Information provider IHS Markit claims that buy-side firms trading all-to-all receive 87% transaction cost savings, by trading on Liquidnet Fixed Income.
IHS Markit...
