RBC names Guy Chalkley as managing director of UK flow rates sales
RBC has named Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK, flow rates sales.
Chalkley, based in London, reports to Kofi Oteng, European head of flow rates...
Clearer credit markets mean (slightly) sharper axes
Dealers may be ‘kept honest’ by increased market transparency, according to some buy-side credit traders, but expectations are tempered by the fluidity needed around...
Argentina’s battle for control
Argentina’s bond markets have been notoriously challenging for investors. Twenty years after the country underwent a major debt restructuring, and just five years after...
Credit Suisse and VTB fined millions by UK, US and Swiss authorities over Mozambican...
Credit Suisse Group AG has agreed to pay nearly US$475 million to Swiss, UK and US authorities, including nearly $100 million to the US...
Data: Are you part of the data disenfranchised?
Where some firms advocate ‘democratising’ data others struggle to capture, process or access data which is crucial to supporting the business.
Creating access to data,...
ICE issues US Dollar LIBOR cessation update
Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Benchmark Administration (IBA), the authorised and regulated administrator of LIBOR, has provided an update on the cessation of US dollar LIBOR.
In...
TransFICC: The increasing importance of data centres in fixed income
As the fixed income market becomes more electronic, we are seeing an increasing number of firms connecting to data centres around the world. The DESK...
Cboe’s credit futures activity and OI leapfrogs CME and Eurex in November
In November, Cboe’s US dollar iBoxx iShares credit futures set new records with US$455 million in average daily volume (ADV) and US$1.95 billion in...
Investor Demand: FI seen as best market for tokenisation
Market participants see fixed income as the most tokenisable asset class, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich study.
More than a quarter (29%) of those...
First trades of CME’s Mexican F-TIIE interest rate futures
Market operator the CME Group has processed the first trades of the new interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight...
SEC fines MIMBT $79.8m for overvaluing 4,900 CMOs
Investment adviser Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust (MIMBT) has been fined US$79.8 million for overvaluing around 4,900 largely illiquid collateralised mortgage obligations (CMOs).
The US...
US credit activity dropped off a cliff in late November
Analysis of US corporate bond market activity has found that trading volumes and counts plummeted going into the final month of the year. A...
