Get better at trading emerging markets credit
A recent article on the challenges for banks in making a profitable business trading emerging markets (EM) credit has highlighted the complexity of the...
Rules & Ratings: Big Beautiful Bill highlights US credit cracks
Fitch Ratings has adjusted a quarter of its US sector outlooks for 2025 to ‘deteriorating’.
The agency cited slowing growth, increasing uncertainty and the expectation...
Bryan Hall swaps MFS for Maple Capital Management
Bryan Hall has left MFS Investment Management after more than two decades, joining Maple Capital Management as a fixed income portfolio manager.
Hall has spent...
Bond funds hit by massive fee discounts; active revenues predicted to fall
Bond funds are dropping their investment management fees by up to 37% - in the case of passive funds – from those of the...
MTS BondsPro pushes into Mexican bond markets
Fixed income market operator MTS Markets, part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has expanded its reach into Mexico via a marketing agreement with...
Liquidnet expands continental Europe coverage
Block trading specialist Liquidnet, part of the TP ICAP Group, has expanded its continental European coverage by deploying specialists in equities and fixed income...
What FILS delegates want
With the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) Europe upon us, The DESK has been speaking to attendees to discern what topics are most eagerly...
B2Scan closes down
B2Scan, the pre-trade liquidity data platform for bond markets, has shut down after eight years. The CEO and founder of B2Scan, Frédéric Semour, was...
Origination: Issuer profile – BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas was the largest bond issuer in Europe in Q2 2025, with €7 billion of debt placed in the market. In total it...
Aligning the pre-trade credit liquidity picture and the execution goal
Pre-trade data and market colour are imperative for buy-side traders looking to achieve best execution in corporate bond markets. Understanding how that applies to...
Origination: Will Germany support European debt mutualisation?
UBS Asset Management’s Jonathan Gregory, head of UK fixed income, has posited the idea that European countries may at some point seek to mutualise...
Under the hood of CBOE’s new US Treasury platform
Market and infrastructure operator, Cboe Global Markets, is planning to introduce a new dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform for on-the-run US Treasuries called ‘Cboe Fixed...
