Refinitiv report on fixed income trading finds strong appetite for automation
Refinitiv, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, and analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, have released a report on the evolution of trading in fixed...
David Nicol appointed at GLMX
GLMX has appointed David Nicol as head of commercial operations. He has been a consultant at the firm since December 2023.
Nicol has more than...
Tradeweb sees strong January; adds Jump Trading to European rates market
Tradeweb Markets has added Jump Trading to its European government bond marketplace to provide bank participants with streaming liquidity via the new Tradeweb EUGV...
State Street: Investors hesitant in fixed income across March
Investors remain risk seeking in equities but hesitant in fixed income – that is according to State Street’s Risk Appetite Index, which rebounded to...
ING appoints Kerkor, targets DCM growth
Joseph Kerkor has joined ING as head of emerging markets credit trading for EMEA.
Based in London, Kerkor leads a team of five traders covering...
Cboe: The future of credit is here – why credit index futures are finally...
David Litchfield, Director of Cboe Derivatives Sales, Cboe
After years of false starts, credit index futures have finally gained traction in institutional portfolios. The Cboe...
Perpetual selects State Street’s Charles River to manage front office ops
State Street subsidiary Charles River Development has been tapped by Perpetual Group to manage its front office operations for the firm’s Australian asset management...
OpenDoor reveals greatest challenge and a turbo-charged match rate
OpenDoor has revealed a significantly high match rate for asset managers on the all-to-all continuous order book it launched in January 2020, to replace...
Dan Toomey poached by Millennium
Dan Toomey has been named senior trader at Millennium, moving from his previous roll as a portfolio manager at Verition Fund Management, a position...
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...
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge...
Is rising credit risk displaying in bid-ask spreads?
US credit markets are seeing a divergence in bid-ask spreads and trade sizes between high yield and investment grade bonds, according to data from...
