Scott Kirkby joins Houlihan Lokey
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Scott Kirkby as a managing director of the European financial services and technology team, part of its...
Buy side issues framework to standardise bond issuance
The Credit Roundtable, a buy-side lobby group for bondholder protection has issued an ‘Investment Grade Primary Best Practices Framework’ designed to improve bond issuance.
The...
The European Women in Finance Awards Shortlist for 2022
Markets Media Europe has now released the shortlist for the European Women in Finance Awards 2022.
Since launching the awards in 2020 when Best Execution...
AxeTrading and Mosaic Smart Data collaborate on bond market analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, and Mosaic Smart Data, the real-time capital markets data analytics company, are integrating the AxeTrader execution management...
KazMunayGas lists US$2.75 billion of Eurobonds on LSE
London Stock Exchange (LSE) has seen its largest issuance of corporate bonds from the CIS region since 2014. Kazakh oil and gas company, KazMunayGas,...
Beyond Liquidity: Automation a key theme in fixed income
Automation was one of the most discussed themes at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Barcelona, which took place earlier this month, with...
Origination: BMO issues US$1 billion in 60-year notes
The Bank of Montreal (BMO) has issued US$1 billion in additional tier 1 limited recourse capital notes (LCRN).
The series six LCRNs have a 6.875%...
Parameta Solutions becomes an authorised benchmark administrator
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP, has become a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorised benchmark administrator, which it claims makes...
Issuance pushes outstanding global debt up 6.2%
Companies around the world took on US$456 billion of net new debt in 2022/23, as of 31 March 2023, pushing the outstanding total up...
DirectBooks names team and launches advisory committee
DirectBooks, a sell-side consortium designing systems for the primary bond market, has named Yvonne Wang as chief operating officer, and Christopher Rodriguez as global...
SimCorp names Sanderson CEO
SimCorp has appointed Peter Sanderson as CEO, effective immediately. He is based in London.
Sanderson replaces Georg Hetrodt, who has held the CEO position since...
This Week from Trader TV: Francesco Castelli, Banor Capital
Credit markets face the central bank test and “structural risks” amid growing AI debt.
Credit markets face the central bank test in the upcoming weeks,...
