European Markets Choice Awards 2022 – The Winners
Last night, Markets Media held its first in person European Markets Choice Awards event in London to celebrate the accomplishment of everyone who works...
Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Research by analyst firm Coalition has found investment banking revenues reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2020, while headcount dropped significantly,...
Controversy as buy side forces U-turn on US liquidity rule
By Jonathan Weitzmann.
The liquidity risk management financial rule (Rule 22e-4) was approved on 28 June 2018 by US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Technology : AI paradigms for bond trading
Understanding types of machine learning is key to building automation in bond markets, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The difficulties of applying artificial intelligence (AI) and...
EIB prices first sterling digital bond
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has priced its first ever £50 million digital bond using a combination of private and public blockchains operated and...
ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1...
BloombergGPT launches
Bloomberg has released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
This large language model (LLM)...
SEC pushes for transparency of municipal bond issuers
By Pia Hecher.
US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amended its Securities Exchange Act on 20 August 2018, to enhance disclosure of...
MEP slams precursor to ‘EU Bond’
A feasibility study into sovereign bond-backed securities (SBSS), published by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has been slammed by Markus Ferber, German conservative...
TS Imagine poaches Villain from Itiviti
Frederic Villain has joined trading and risk technology provider TS Imagine, from trading platform supplier Itiviti.
“Happy to join a great team, under the leadership...
How asset managers capture micro-alpha opportunities
Setting up your desk correctly can help to boost returns for funds and clients.
When an opportunity arises for a fund to improve its returns,...
BrokerTec launches US Treasury benchmark spread trading
Electronic bond market operator BrokerTec, has launched Relative Value (RV) Curve spread trading, allowing clients to trade cash US Treasury benchmark spreads in a...