Credit Spotlight: How clear can pre-trade get?
Pre-trade transparency is a nirvana for over-the-counter markets, particularly corporate bond trading, which lack the publicly displayed prices of the exchange-traded market.
Unless it...
Comparing Corporate Bond Liquidity Across Regions
By Grant Lowensohn and Hidde Verholt.
Highlights
The US corporate bond market offers a significantly greater number of ISINs with high daily trade counts than other...
ION expands further with Clarus Financial Technology acquisition
ION Markets, the trading, analytics, and risk management solution provider for capital markets, has bought Clarus Financial Technology, a provider of SaaS analytics, data,...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021
This year sees tighter pipelines for new business and a wider array of trading protocols.
Executive summary
One year on from the sell-off in Q1 2020,...
Subscriber
European Women in Finance – Sukh Bachal – Finding her tribe in fintech
Shanny Basar speaks to Sukh Bachal about standing your ground, finding the right balance and lending a helping hand.
Sukh Bachal was recently promoted to...
TraderTV: Eugene Grinberg, SOLVE
AI targets price discovery challenges in bond markets
Fixed income traders face major challenges in pricing bonds accurately, especially in volatile markets where liquidity is...
Upping strike rate and strength in US IG
We often hear ‘nothing really changes’ in relation to capital markets so it is good to have an insight into real progress, courtesy of...
Jonathan Tricker promoted to head trader role
Jonathan Tricker has been promoted to head trader, global credit at Vanguard, reporting to Sarang Kulkarni, portfolio manager for investment grade (IG) credit.
Tricker is...
ICG names David Saitowitz head of US liquid credit
ICG, a global alternative asset manager, has named David Saitowitz its new head of US liquid credit.
Based in the firm’s New York office, Saitowitz...
FILS 2022: 7IM selects Bloomberg AIM and PORT to streamline trade workflow
Investment manager 7IM has adopted Bloomberg’s AIM order management system (OMS), to support the firm’s focus on achieving an efficient target operating model to...
No Danish Compromise for BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has finalised its acquisition of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) and clarified its leadership structure going forward.
The firm has not been able...
Thailand’s Government Pension Fund taps Charles River for front office management
Thailand’s government pension fund has selected State Street subsidiary Charles River Development to modernise its front office operations and manage its domestic and international...
