Rising rates hit high yield availability
Despite some optimistic outlooks on bond issuance in 2023, high yield bonds are clearly seeing a decline in Europe, based on data from the...
Mizuho senior departs for Deutsche Bank
Amedeo Scippacercola has joined Deutsche Bank as a European government bond trader. He is based in London.
Within Deutsche Bank’s investment bank division, fixed income...
E-trading bond platforms outperform banks’ Q3 in fixed income trading
Market operator Tradeweb has seen a strong Q3 revenue against the same quarter in 2020, while electronic bond-trading MarketAxess has seen a slight decrease...
The pros and cons of record issuance
Bond markets typically see increased liquidity around a bond shortly after it is issued. However, this does not mean that markets are automatically more...
Seeing the pressure market makers are under in European credit
Secondary market data paints a picture of the challenges faced by sell-side market makers in the European corporate bond market during Q4. Information from...
Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance for bond trading automation
Overbond’s fixed income artificial intelligence (AI) will now offer protocol and system agnostic integration with venues and electronic trading systems used by sell-side and...
Exoé signs Sherpa Edge Trading as linked agent in Northern Europe
Sherpa Edge Trading is entering into a linked agent agreement with outsourced trading provider Exoé. This partnership will bring Exoé’s buy-side outsourced multi-asset trading...
Sub-2bps bid-ask spreads in US IG are below pre-crisis levels
The US investment grade (IG) credit market is seeing very tight bid-ask spreads in 2021, according to the Composite Plus (CP+) data supplied by...
Trading protocol gains bolster liquidity sourcing
Perspectives vary as to which newer methods of buying and selling bonds will most help institutional traders in the next year, but there is...
Corporate bond trade sizes climb in Europe
Total notional traded in European corporate bonds reached €5,397 billion in 2024, according to ICMA’s latest Secondary Market Data Report, an 11.8% increase on...
SEI taps IMTC for fixed income portfolio management system
SEI, a provider of investment and technology solutions, will utilise IMTC’s fixed income portfolio management system to provide custom solutions to its clients.
The IMTC...
Authorities reverse one-minute fixed income reporting requirements
Requirements for trades to be reported within one minute have been reversed just months after their approval after concerns were raised around the negative...
