UBS AM: Fixed income is starting to price better growth outcomes
By Evan Brown and Meena Bassily of UBS Asset Management
Consensus growth forecasts for the US and other advanced economies have been
repeatedly revised higher since...
FILS USA 2022: Where ESG fits in fixed income
Environmental, social and governance is expanding its reach in fixed income markets, though there remain concerns about standardization and data quality.
Speakers on the Friday...
Union Investment imposes a purchase ban on Russian state bonds and sanctioned companies
Union Investment has decided to impose an immediate ban on the purchase of all securities of the Russian state and a number of Russian...
Origination: Citigroup to issue US$275 million in HKEX bonds
Citigroup Global Markets has issued US$275 million in cash-settled exchangeable bonds for shares in HKEX.
The scheduled issue date for the bonds is 10 April...
Proprietary trading firms seek fixed income investment expansion in year ahead
Proprietary trading firms, buoyed by an optimistic outlook for the year ahead, are investing in trading new asset classes, particularly fixed income, with government...
Quantitative Brokers: Rate futures market susceptible to shocks
A new paper by Quantitative Brokers’ research team, led by Shankar Narayanan has found that the average quote size of many interest rate futures...
AM Best adjusts credit ratings and outlooks
AM Best has assigned and upgraded the credit ratings of a number of firms, reflecting changes to elements including balance sheets, operating performance and...
Oppenheimer builds out distressed debt team with ten new hires
Oppenheimer, an investment bank and wealth manager, has built out its fixed income division with ten distressed debt team hires, as institutional investors seek...
MarketAxess launches direct access to UBS Bond Port
Users of MarketAxess’ private banking and wealth management service Axess IQ can now route orders directly to UBS Bond Port.
“UBS has been a liquidity...
European Markets Choice Awards Winner: Charles River
The Evolving Fixed Income Trading Landscape: Leveraging Connectivity, Interoperability and Automation
Alun Cutler, Director, Product Management, EMEA at Charles River Development
Charles River has recently been...
Thomas Pluta named president-elect at Tradeweb
Tradeweb Markets has named markets veteran Thomas Pluta as its next president. He will join Tradeweb from JP Morgan, where he spent nearly 27...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: MarketAxess collaboration to enhance fixed income market transparency and efficiency
Following the announcement of a new data partnership between S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketAxess, Traders Magazine* sat down with Kat Sweeney, Head of...
