FILS USA 2022: Where ESG fits in fixed income
Environmental, social and governance is expanding its reach in fixed income markets, though there remain concerns about standardization and data quality.
Speakers on the Friday...
Issuance and inflows paint more positive picture for EM liquidity
Over the past week emerging markets (EM) credit issuance saw US$7.6 billion in newly issued bonds, against US£900k the week before, while on the...
Origination: Issuer profile – Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc
In October, insurance and risk specialist, Marsh & McLennan, priced US$7.25 billion of senior notes, in part to support its acquisition of McGriff, an...
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...
FILS USA 2022: Can traders get a single view of a fragmented market?
Scaling up the ability of the trading desk to process orders – either by size of the orders, or the number of tickets the...
Instinet veteran flips to Liquidnet
Liquidnet has appointed Mark Turner as managing director and co-head of sales and trading for the Americas.
Turner has been a managing director at Instinet...
FILS USA 2023: Fed has lost investors’ confidence in guidance
The Federal Reserve’s constant mistakes on forward guidance have lost the confidence of some buy-side firms in its ability to predict outlooks.
Speaking at...
Portfolio trading breaks into new markets
Emerging markets are adopting PT to add efficiency to liquidity sourcing, writes Matt Walters of MarketAxess.
Portfolio trading has seen a lot of success and...
Exclusive: TS Imagine connects with TDS Automated Trading for muni market-making
Trading systems provider, TS Imagine, has connected to municipal bond market maker TDS Automated Trading (TDSAT), through its TradeSmart Fixed Income execution management system...
Piper promoted at Piper Sandler
Michael Piper has been promoted to head of fixed income at Piper Sandler, effective Q1 2026.
Based in Texas, he reports to the investment bank’s...
Fidelity International: “A new era for interest rates”
Steve Ellis, global chief investment officer for fixed income at Fidelity International has outlined dynamics which could affect debt markets in 2023.
“Fixed income markets...
Cifu steps back at Virtu
Co-founder Douglas Cifu has retired from Virtu Financial, with chief technology officer Aaron Simons taking on the CEO position.
Cifu will remain an advisor to...
