Graham Capital appoints Jens Foehrenbach as president and co-CIO
Graham Capital Management, a hedge fund specialising in quantitative and discretionary macro strategies, has appointed Jens Foehrenbach as president and co-chief investment officer (co-CIO).
Foehrenbach...
Bond market growth slumped in 2018
By Pia Hecher.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Data Indices, the information provider, has reported that the total outstanding debt across global bond markets only grew by...
Insights & Analysis: Technology upends traditional credit trading liquidity patterns, Barclays says
In a recent research note Zornitsa Todorova, head of FICC research at Barclays contends that with over half of IG volumes now electronic, systematic...
TS Imagine launches cross-asset investment and trading platform for hedge funds
TS Imagine the trading, portfolio, and risk management platform provider, has launched TS One, a cross-asset class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed for investing...
ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
FILS 2022: FlexTrade, Glimpse herald “transformative” EMS data integration
Bond market data sharing platform Glimpse Markets has integrated with FlexTrade Systems’ fixed income execution management system (EMS), the two companies have announced.
FlexTrade said...
Vicky Chan returns to HKEX
Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Limited (HKEX) has appointed Vicky Chan as managing director and head of post trade, effective 5th August. She replaces...
Siemens’ digital bond issuance bypasses syndicate banks
Siemens has become one of the first companies in Germany to issue a digital bond, in accordance with Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (Gesetz über...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
What is crushing the bid-ask spread in US IG?
The bid-ask spread in US investment grade credit has been falling this year, regardless of the trading volume activity.
Notional traded in the US...
IG credit dealers go short before Fed cuts
As investors look to lock in higher yields ahead of Fed cuts, dealer net positions in IG corporate bonds of more than five years...
LTX launches BondGPT powered by OpenAI GPT-4
LTX, the market operator division of Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched BondGPT, an application powered by OpenAI GPT-4 that answers bond-related questions and assists...
