BlackRock loses senior market structure team as Winnike departs
BlackRock has lost its second senior market structure specialist in a few weeks as Michael Winnike, director, market structure at BlackRock, left the firm...
How to innovate in a volatile bond market
When trading teams are fully stretched it is hard for them to support innovation and change, yet Dan Barnes finds that the two things...
BondAuction and NowCM partner to support primary market access
BondAuction and NowCM, the primary market platform, are establishing connectivity between their platforms to offer connectivity for respective clients and users.
NowCM and BondAuction will...
Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
Commerzbank’s CEO and chairman quit
Commerzbank has announced that its CEO, Martin Zielke, will resign early on the basis of a mutual termination following a period of poor performance...
Dealers had ‘exceptional’ 2022 for fixed income; JP Morgan tops Q1 DCM winners
Research by front-office technology provider, valantic FSA, and analyst firm, Acuiti, has found that 52% of dealers had an ‘exceptional’ year for fixed income...
Trading hacks and force multipliers for the smaller trading team
Faced with rising trading volumes and falling returns, buy-side bond desks are frequently either shrinking or at best struggling to match resource with requirements.
We...
Philip Fielding joins Fidelity International
Philip Fielding has joined Fidelity International as a portfolio manager for emerging market debt. He is based in London.
With close to 20 years of...
Buy-side firms warn on herding effect of QE
By Aulia Beg.
Portfolio managers have expressed concern about the ‘herding’ behaviour within the investment community, resulting from central banks’ quantitative easing (QE) programmes.
In a...
September ADV: E-trading platforms see volumes soar
Fixed income platforms saw their average daily volume (ADV) in September reach record highs with MarketAxess witnessing a 52% increase compared to September last...
Women in finance: A fresh start
Roxane Sanguinetti, head of strategy at GHCO talks to Lynn Strongin Dodds about fintechs, ETFs and culture
Working at a start-up can be an adventurous...
