Bloomberg wins over AB and Capital Group with BVAL
AllianceBernstein (AB) and Capital Group have both selected Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service (BVAL) to benchmark and corroborate end-of-day values for US fixed income portfolio...
Rules & Ratings: ‘Under review’ list shrinks at AM Best
Germania Farm Mutual Insurance Association is no longer categorised as ‘under review with negative implications’ by AM Best, and has been assigned a financial...
SoCal insurance firm suffers credit outlook relegation
January’s California wildfires have hit insurance companies hard, with AM Best relegating multiple-line insurance organisation Mercury General Corporation and its subsidiaries to a negative...
Research: Trading Protocols Survey 2022
In comp vs non-comp trading polarises across electronic and voice.
The DESK’s Trading Protocols Survey 2022 has found a continuing movement of corporate bond trades...
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BMLL marks move into fixed income with Level 3 futures data
BMLL, a provider of historical Level 3 data and analytics, has expanded its product offering to include global futures, now available as asset class...
UK bond tape tender confirmation pushed to midnight tonight
Confirmation of the UK’s bond consolidated tape provider has been delayed until midnight tonight, its second extension, indicating open questions around the award still...
MarketAxess muni offerings incorporated into Investortools Dealer Network
Fixed-income electronic trading platform MarketAxess has expanded its municipal bond integration with the Investortools’ platform, the latest phase of its Financial Information eXchange (FIX)...
Trumid promotes Mike Sobel to co-CEO
Bond market operator Trumid, has named Mike Sobel as co-CEO alongside founder and co-CEO Ronnie Mateo. A founding member of Trumid’s team, Sobel will...
ICMA: Fully-automatic credit trading has grown; block liquidity has reduced
The International Capital Markets Association has found 44% of buy-side trading desks have increased their use of rules-based, fully automated electronic execution compared with...
Local currency emerging market trading grows at MarketAxess
MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has seen a rise in volumes of local currency bond trading in emerging...
Societe Generale hires Anu Iyanda
Societe Generale has appointed Anu Iyanda as an emerging markets credit trader in London.
Iyanda joins from HSBC, where he spent over three years trading...
US retail goes big on directly-held bonds
Retail investors are leaning back into bonds, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich report – and are increasingly owning them directly, rather than through...
