MiFIR: Controversy around consolidated tape proposal for revenue sharing with venues
The Czechia presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed amending the Markets in Financial Instrument Regulation (MiFIR) on 16 December 2022, with...
Neil Palan joins Sarasin & Partners
Neil Palan has joined Sarasin & Partners, an investment manager with £18.8 billion in assets under management, as a multi-asset trader.
Palan spent 16...
Jefferies moves into outsourced fixed income trading with Siegel hire
Industry veteran Jory Siegel has joined Jefferies as head of fixed income outsourced trading, from Marex.
Siegel was previously managing director and head of fixed...
SEC approves primary market database for US credit
Last week US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) signed off the development of a single central source of new issue reference...
Insight Investment named collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for £1.7 billion longevity swap
Insight Investment, an investment manager with £683 billion (€778.3 billion) assets under management, has been appointed as collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for...
Houlihan Lokey adds to capital markets team with veteran hire Michael Hommeyer
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Michael Hommeyer as managing director in its capital markets group.
Based in New York, Hommeyer will lead a...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
Implications of Atlanta Fed negative GDPNow score for US credit
The Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in the US hit 2.4% on 6 March 2025, up from -2.8 percent on 3 March,...
Stuart Taylor to lead electronic trading fixed income at MUFG
MUFG has appointed Stuart Taylor as head of electronic trading within Global Markets for EMEA, Asia and the Americas, effective 20 November 2020.
This newly...
Tradeweb, Trumid close in on MarketAxess’ lunch
Electronic credit closed 2024 on a strong showing with December monthly volume growing 14.7% to US$18.3 billion year–on–year (YoY) while full-year trading volume totalled...
Fink: BlackRock’s private credit strategy ties Prequin and Aladdin
In BlackRock’s second quarter (Q2) earnings call, CEO and chairman, Larry Fink, has set out the firm’s vision of expansion into private credit markets.
He...
DLT – What is the value in primary markets?
A recent study prepared on behalf of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) by Boston Consulting Group, Cravath, Swaine, and Moore LLP, and Clifford...
