FILS 2021: Overcoming barriers to automation
Implementation costs are among the biggest hurdles for buy-side fixed income desks hoping to increase efficiency workflows.
Addressing delegates at the Fixed Leaders Summit in...
FILS in Barcelona: Should you be switching from high yield bonds to leveraged loans?
Thierry De Vergnes, managing director of acquisition debt funds at Amundi, presented a compelling case at FILS 2023 for why high yield loans are...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
RTS 28 reports dropped as ESMA deprioritises enforcement
Investment firms in the European Union (EU) will no longer be obliged to publish some best execution reports following amendments to MiFID II, with...
Bosworth Monck joins Aeon Investments advisory board
Credit-focused investment manager Aeon Investments has appointed Bosworth Monck to its advisory board.
Monck has more than three decades of industry experience, most recently spending...
FTSE Russell weighs country accessibility for fixed income traders
FTSE Russell, the index and data firm, is introducing a country classification process for fixed income. The newly introduced fixed income framework, which is...
Tradeweb announces first fully electronic SOFR swap spread trade
Market operator Tradeweb reports it has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade. BlackRock and JP Morgan...
Who is using outsourced trading?
A new study by analyst firm Capco has outlined the drivers, pros and cons for buy-side outsourced trading, yet Capco was unable to say...
AxeTrading founders step back from management
AxeTrading has announced that the founders of the firm, together with other members of the Board, have agreed that in order to address “the...
UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
Bloomberg and MSCI launch Paris-Aligned bond indices
Bloomberg and MSCI have launched indices in their joint Climate Benchmark offering with the Bloomberg MSCI Global, Euro and US Corporate Paris-Aligned Indices. These...
The big issue
Corporate bond issuance has boomed at the start of 2024, at a point when rates are peaking. They may not be that high in...
