Morgan Stanley exec joins Jefferies in Asia
Vivian Li has joined Jefferies as head of distressed trading and credit analytics for Asia. She is based in Hong Kong.
The firm reported US$289k...
Barclays names Brad Rogoff global research head
Barclays has appointed Brad Rogoff global head of research, effective 1 October 2024.
Currently the head of FICC research, Rogoff is based in New York...
Philip Fielding joins Fidelity International
Philip Fielding has joined Fidelity International as a portfolio manager for emerging market debt. He is based in London.
With close to 20 years of...
E-trading static in record month for US credit
Average daily notional volumes were up more than a quarter year-on-year (YoY) in US credit markets over April, reaching a record US$60 billion. A...
Tradeweb to acquire Nasdaq’s eSpeed central limit order book
Electronic bond market operator, Tradeweb, has agreed to buy Nasdaq’s US fixed income electronic trading platform. The Nasdaq interdealer platform, formerly known as eSpeed,...
Tradeweb completes A$125m Yieldbroker acquisition
Multi-asset market operator Tradeweb Markets has completed its acquisition of Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand government bonds and interest...
FILS US 2023: Traders need tech solutions that plug directly into their workflow
The View on Liquidity panel at FILS US 2023 had some stern words on the urgent need to integrate better protocols directly into workflows...
Under the skin of new US crossing rules
Crossing trades internally would have saved US investors many millions in March. Dan Barnes reports.
US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is...
Glimpse Markets and TORA connect to support buy-side traders
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing hub, has partnered with order and execution management system (OEMS) provider TORA.
By connecting TORA’s OEMS with Glimpse...
Block trading investigations follow a long trend
Several investigations reported in the press are following regulatory scrutiny of block trading arrangements. The investigations reported by Bloomberg, Reuters and the Financial Times...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
The US: Too big to Fitch?
Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded the United States’ long-term credit ratings to AA+ from AAA and removed the rating ‘Watch Negative’ stating “ reflects...
