Bloomberg: No charge for buy-side fixed income trading
Bloomberg has quashed rumours that buy-side traders are to be charged for fixed income trading in 2021. Buy-side traders had reported to The DESK...
RBC joins ICE Clear Credit as clearing member
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) credit default swaps clearinghouse, ICE Clear Credit, as a clearing member.
Following its membership,...
Bid-ask spread betting in credit
Betting how bid-ask spreads will move this year has been made more challenging by a dislocation between the mean average and the median bid-ask...
Algomi/Euroclear deal may open access to 373,000 bonds
Pre-trade data provider Algomi has significantly extended the universe of bonds for which it can publish trading opportunities, by signing a new agreement with...
BlueCrest poaches Sam Tabari from Goldman
BlueCrest Capital Management has hired former Goldman Sachs rates trader Sam Tabari as a senior portfolio manager on its London-based global-macro desk.
He will run...
FILS 2024: Applying AI to trading
Asset management and trading businesses are being transformed by artificial intelligence. That was the message from a series of panels at the Fixed Income...
EBA launches consultation on regtech
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched an industry consultation to identify the main barriers and risks of deploying RegTech and potential ways to support...
CME Group proposes date for fallbacks conversion of Eurodollar futures and options contracts
Market operator CME Group is proposing to convert Eurodollar futures and options open interest into corresponding secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) contracts on 14...
Origination: Issuer profile – EchoStar Corp
EchoStar Corp saw the largest proportional increase in notional debt outstanding in the technology sector in 2024, with a 509% increase, taking it to...
Trading: Are bond markets broken?
Stressed events – like the gilt market turmoil – are proving too much for the secondary markets to handle.
Behind closed doors, senior traders are...
Algomi ALFA adds actionable liquidity via Liquidnet and Trumid
Algomi ALFA has taken a step closer to becoming a smart order router (SOR) for fixed income, by enabling actionable liquidity alerts for the...
Amy Koch Flynn named head of trading for strategic advisors at Fidelity
Fidelity Investments has appointed Amy Koch Flynn as head of trading for strategic advisors. She is based in Boston.
Koch Flynn has more than 25...
