Bloomberg expands IBVAL front office pricing solution
Bloomberg has expanded its pricing solution, Intraday BVAL (IBVAL) Front Office, to cover EUR and GBP investment grade and high yield credit bonds included...
BoE amends collateral eligibility criteria for regulated covered bonds
The Bank of England is to amend the collateral eligibility criteria for regulated covered bonds in the Bank’s Sterling Monetary Framework.
From 1 September, to...
Buy side issues framework to standardise bond issuance
The Credit Roundtable, a buy-side lobby group for bondholder protection has issued an ‘Investment Grade Primary Best Practices Framework’ designed to improve bond issuance.
The...
Jefferies’ bond desks have an outstanding start to 2023
Investment banking firm Jefferies saw fixed income trading revenues jump 62% to US$590 million for the six months to May 2023, from US$364 million....
Data analytics is nothing without the people who use it
We are in the midst of a data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle. Every week yields a crop of new articles on...
Tim Hill joins MUFG Securities Americas
MUFG Securities Americas has appointed Tim Hill as a director, focused on investment grade credit trading.
Hill joins from Goldman Sachs, where he began his...
ESMA lacks data to test bond market concerns
By Pia Hecher.
Regulators have acknowledged that bond market data is so sparse, even post-MiFID II, that they are unable to test execution quality concerns....
Rules & Ratings: Covered clearing agencies subject to new risk management rules
The SEC has amended rules related to the risk management and resilience of covered clearing agencies, introducing new requirements around intraday margin collection and...
CanDeal officially made ‘Designated Benchmark Administrator’ in Canada
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) have designated CanDeal Benchmark Administration Services as a ‘Designated Benchmark Administrator' and...
Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor
Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematical Finance, joins as Scientific Advisor
London, June 2019: Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has...
Row erupts as CBOE seeks to define exchange boundaries
An application by multi-asset market operator, CBOE, to define what is considered a ‘facility’ of the exchange, has triggered a row. The firm sought...
Market gives cautious response to Sweden’s ‘detail-lite’ MiFID II deal
The Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union (Council) reached a last-minute agreement with the EU Parliament on proposed changes to the...
