IG issuance across US and Europe up 20% on five-year average
US investment grade debt issuance has hit $1.7 trillion year to date (YTD) in 2025, a 12% increase year on year (YoY). That brings...
LTX awarded four patents covering fixed income trading
Broadridge subsidiary LTX has been awarded four new patents on its fixed income trading solutions pertaining to bond similarity technology, dealer selection score technology,...
Summer heat subdues European activity
Activity in both European high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) declined in the last week of July, with trade volumes falling to yearly...
Europe’s record IG credit issuance could boost electronic trading
January was a record month for investment grade bond issuance in Europe, with shorter-dated driving this activity. According to analyst firm CreditSights, shorter maturity...
Virtu data scientist jumps to Vanguard
Vanguard has appointed Erin Stanton as a senior manager and investment management product manager. She is based in Pennsylvania.
The company holds US$10.4 trillion in...
Mike Rosborough, CalPERS: On truth and transparency
Dating back to the 1930s, the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest pension fund in the United States. Mike Rosborough, senior portfolio...
Buy-side firms may dominate front office tech
Buy-side firms need to make secular decisions about whether to buy or sell technology to other asset managers. Dan Barnes reports.
In April, CEO of...
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...
Bloomberg Terminal releases document search and analysis feature
Bloomberg is expanding the artificial intelligence capabilities of the Bloomberg Terminal with a document search and analysis solution.
The new service is expected to allow...
CME Group to launch €STR options in Q1 2024
Derivatives marketplace CME Group is to launch options on €STR futures from Q1 2024, adding to its suite of European rates derivatives.
CME launched 3-month...
SOLVE: Eugene Grinberg (from a TraderTV interview)
Bringing the bond market’s loose ends together
Accurate bond pricing remains a challenge in today’s fixed income markets. Two critical issues stand in the way:...
ICE chases Tradeweb in MBS electronic trading
ICE aims to get a bigger pie of the electronic Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) trading market and introduces a new anonymous Request-for-Quote (RFQ) protocol.
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