Investor Demand: Bonds lead European long-term fund inflows
European long-term fund inflows were driven by record bond fund activity in Q3 2025, according to EFAMA statistics.
Net inflows for long-term funds were €236...
Cedric Barbier joins Stone X
Cedric Barbier has moved from Nomura to StoneX and is named emerging market fixed income sales.
With a financial markets career spanning more than twenty...
Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility
Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by...
Alexander named third Ares alternative credit co-head
Global alternative investment manager Ares Management has promoted Kevin Alexander to co-head of alternative credit.
The Ares Alternative Credit strategy holds approximately US$43.1 billion in...
Refinitiv report on fixed income trading finds strong appetite for automation
Refinitiv, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, and analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, have released a report on the evolution of trading in fixed...
CME paper: Is US vs Euro rate differential greater than central bank rates?
A research paper by Erik Norland, senior economist of CME Group, has found that the difference between the futures and the spot price for...
Ediphy’s virtual data manager harmonises fixed income data for easy consumption
Fixed income execution and analytics services provider Ediphy has unveiled a new cloud-based data management as a service offering. The DESK speaks to CEO...
Robbert Booij to join Eurex as CEO of Eurex Frankfurt AG
Eurex has named Robbert Booij as CEO of Eurex Frankfurt AG, effective 1 July 2024.
Booij will succeed Michael Peters and, as of 1 May,...
Mark Eardley returns to Commerzbank in algo trading
Commerzbank has hired Mark Eardley as an algorithmic trading specialist in London.
He rejoins the bank after eight years at UBS, where he was director...
ING spins out AI bond tool for commercial buy-side use
ING has spun out Katana, its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for bond pricing, into a London-based standalone company called Katana Labs. ING Ventures will...
Trading for Trees: Giving back through trading green bonds
Since its inception, the MarketAxess “Trading for Trees” initiative has helped to plant over 385,000 trees across a range of biodiversity, climate stability and...
Coalition Greenwich: E-trading kept muni markets active amid April turmoil
Municipal bond traders are leaning into smaller tickets as they embrace electronic trading, Q1 2025 metrics show.
E-trading as a percentage of the market increased...
