Bloomberg launches ultrashort TIPS index to quell inflation fears
Bloomberg has launched an ultrashort index for the Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) market as investors’ inflation concerns grow.
The Bloomberg US Ultrashort TIPS 1-13 Months...
Germany’s rates market comfort
Germany’s government bond market is in rude health, according to the latest analysis of sovereign debt by Andy Hill, director at the International Capital...
The hidden liquidity in IBHY and IBIG futures
Real-money asset managers are finding that Cboe’s cash-settled corporate bond index futures – IBHY and IBIG futures – allow them to track ETFs in...
Chappell leaves Nordea IM as head of fixed income trading
Brett Chappell has left Nordea Investment Managers as head of fixed income trading, with his role being filled temporarily by Jakob Jessen, executive director...
On The Desk: Christoph Hock: On building efficiency
Union Investment’s development of a multi-asset trading team and segregation of high and low touch business is allowing it to focus trading resource where...
March sell-off has driven a longer-term shift towards all-to-all trading
Buyers and sellers were successfully finding opportunities in all-to-all trading as traditional liquidity tightened. Does that herald a permanent shift in behaviour?
All-to-all trading came...
How a credit sell-off might unfold…
Someone, somewhere, is cooking the books
In 2007, I explained the risks of cumulative capital market investments to a friend as a series of interconnected...
Tradeweb shares execution workflows through Coremont
Tradeweb has partnered with cloud-based portfolio management software and analytics platform Coremont, providing execution services through its portfolio management platform.
The partnership is in line...
OpenYield set for expansion with latest funding round
Closing a US$7 million funding round, bond marketplace OpenYield plans to boost its client base, drive global expansion and expand its product range. The...
NowCM and Liquidnet look to accelerate new issue workflow
The NowCM Group, a system and infrastructure provider for the primary debt markets, has worked with Liquidnet, the investment and block trading specialist, to...
Nick Taylor joins KNG Securities
KNG Securities International has hired market veteran Nick Taylor as an EM credit sales-and-trading specialist in London.
Taylor arrives after three years as an emerging-markets...
FTSE Russell weighs country accessibility for fixed income traders
FTSE Russell, the index and data firm, is introducing a country classification process for fixed income. The newly introduced fixed income framework, which is...
