Oscar Kressner joins Millennium
Oscar Kressner has joined alternative asset manager Millennium Management Global Investment, as a portfolio manager covering global macro investing. Millennium, which has US$56 billion...
Chaucer: Cost of insurance against defaults on sovereign debt jumps by 102%
The cost of insuring against sovereign debt defaults has increased by an average of 102% over the past year, according to research by global...
Trumid launches continuous bond pricing platform
By Flora McFarlane.
Trumid has announced the launch of its new service, the Fair Value Model Price (FVMP), for continuous bond pricing which produces a...
Ryan Mitchell joins Verition Fund Management
Verition Fund Management has appointed Ryan Mitchell as a portfolio manager, based in South Carolina.
Mitchell has more than 20 years of industry experience and...
LSEG invests in BondCliQ to expand fixed income data
London Stock Exchange Group and buy-side institutions have led fundraising in BondCliQ, which provides a consolidated quote system in the opaque and fragmented market...
The Book: Clearwater Analytics releases commercial paper issuance tool
Clearwater Analytics has released a commercial paper (CP) issuance tool, aiming to improve firms’ efficiency by providing a real-time view of issuances.
With the goal...
European bid-ask credit spreads not assuaged by tariff roll back
Liquidity costs in European corporate bond trading remain elevated, after the tariff shock in early April saw bid-ask spreads widen significantly across markets, according...
FCA details CTP tender process
The FCA has outlined its next steps in the consolidated tape provider (CTP) selection process, from initial applications to final authorisation.
Applications must be submitted...
FILS 2021: Liquidnet gives detail on new primary market offering
Liquidnet’s primary market offering for the bond market was laid out by Dan Hinxman, head of sales for Liquidnet Fixed Income at the Fixed...
Optimising execution in Qatari and Kuwaiti bond sell-off
Buy-side traders need to carefully manage order execution when a bond market moves into or out of an index, as the large directional moves...
Utility mooted to reduce data onboarding friction
While data has become more abundant across the fixed income ecosystem, making it useful remains a major challenge.
“Some of our desks manage hundreds of...
Pension funds take on trading
When retirement funds bring fixed income investment in-house, they have to re-engineer the trading process. Dan Barnes finds out how.
Many pension funds are weighing...
