Exclusive: Kirstie MacGillivray named UK CEO of Aegon AM
Kirstie MacGillivray has become the UK CEO of Aegon Asset Management, a buy-side firm with €315 billion assets under management. MacGillivray has been the...
Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
Insights & Analysis: UBS: Opportunity to “lock in rates higher” ahead of cuts
Fed governors appear to be leaning into a more dovish approach ahead of expected rate cuts this September, UBS observed in a research note,...
EU begins NGEU bill auctions but secondary market needs support
The European Union’s new bond issuance auction programme started on 15 September, via the TELSAT auction system operated by Banque de France for its...
Lipper: Bond funds come roaring back (with Fed’s help)
Refinitiv Lipper has seen a bounce back for bond funds in Q2 2020 after they suffered losses of -4.3% and outflows of US$208.9 billion...
Asia’s Electronic Trading Wave Reaches Swaps
By Andrea Sbalchiero, IRS Product Manager, Asia at Tradeweb.
Electronic trading is on the march in Asia. One example is Japanese Government Bonds, where automation...
Rules and Ratings: Moody’s sees improving credit fundamentals driving leveraged finance deals
As interest rates decline, credit fundamentals will improve in 2025 and defaults will ease, according to analysis from credit rating agency Moody’s.
“Investors will hunt...
IHS Markit publishing new CRITR US dollar funding rate
Information, analytics and solution provider, IHS Markit, is now publishing a series of forward-looking dynamic term rates that measure the daily US Dollar (USD)...
Rules & Ratings: Understanding gaps between credit risk data and credit ratings
While credit ratings underline investor confidence and evaluation of debt products, credit risk data can potentially offer a more nuanced source of information for...
Coalition Greenwich: E-trading boom to outpace market growth in 2025
Nearly half of US investment grade corporate bond trading was electronic in 2024 – and this is only the start, Coalition Greenwich says.
In the...
FlexTrade Systems’ FlexTRADER EMS selected by T. Rowe Price
FlexTrade Systems, the execution and order management system (E/OMS) provider, has been chosen by T. Rowe Price to supply the FlexTRADER EMS Fixed Income...
Repo: productivity and profitability opportunities
By Tim Martins, Product Manager for Money Markets and Derivatives at MTS.
Repo workflow: the sales and relationship opportunity...
B2C repo workflow hasn’t changed much for...
