Selling the dip
Credit investors may see the relative calm in the market at present as a point at which to trade into safer positions, according to...
Oliver Haste joins Propellant.digital
Bond market analytics provider, Propellant.digital, has announced that Oliver Haste has joined as head of EMEA product, Propellant’s second senior appointment in five weeks,...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
J.P. Morgan: Survey reveals specific growth opportunities for electronic trading
Expectations of volatility jump as traders across the market seek liquidity and cost management through single dealer platforms.
J.P Morgan’s annual E-trading Edit, a comprehensive...
FCA to investigate barriers for buy side to access data
The UK’s market regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will launch two market studies and gather further information to investigate access to wholesale data....
Strong bond issuance raises Q1 bank revenues, Citi up 62%
Goldman Sachs broke the mould for fixed income market makers in Q1, achieving a 6% year-on-year revenue growth, reaching US$3.47 billion.
However, despite declines in...
Getting the most out of derivatives in credit
Bond investing has become more exciting in the past two years than in the previous ten, with interest rates and central bank activity fire-fighting...
‘Resurgence’ in fixed income in 2023 drove e-trading in December
Electronic trading platforms saw a big boost to trading volumes in December, finishing off a great year for fixed income.
Tradeweb
Tradeweb Markets has reported a...
GAM raises spectre of illiquidity and redemption
By Pia Hecher.
Global Asset Management (GAM) fund boards suspended all subscriptions and redemptions in its unconstrained/absolute return bond funds (ARBF) on 31 July 2018....
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
CMA scuppers ION’s fixed income ambitions?
Trading systems giant ION will have to sell the fixed income business of recently acquired Broadway Technology if it wants to allay concerns and...
The hidden liquidity in IBHY and IBIG futures
Real-money asset managers are finding that Cboe’s cash-settled corporate bond index futures – IBHY and IBIG futures – allow them to track ETFs in...
