Focus on China’s property sector
The charts we focus on this week are from CreditSights, and look at the issuance and outstanding bonds for Evergrande, the Chinese property developer...
FI revenues make big yearly gains at European exchanges
Fixed income trading revenues dipped in the second quarter at European exchanges – but were up more than 20% across the board.
LSEG’s fixed income...
Allianz, BlackRock, T&D Holdings invest in Viridium
Allianz, BlackRock and T&D Holdings have invested in German life insurance consolidation firm Viridium.
The three firms join Generali Financial Holdings and Hannover Re in...
D2C US rates e-trading pops in sleepy summer
A quiet summer has allowed dealer-to-client electronic trading levels in US rates to reach a yearly high, Coalition Greenwich suggests.
Electronic trading dropped by just...
China lays path to greater liquidity
Better risk and liquidity management is on the cards for the buy side as repo and derivatives are promoted by authorities and market infrastructure...
Capital Group appoints Carpenzano to fixed income team in Europe
Capital Group, which has more than US$441 billion in fixed income assets under management (AUM) of its total US$2.4 trillion AUM, has hired of...
ICE Data fine is symptomatic of bond data challenge
ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data (PRD) has been fined by US$8 million by US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for...
Euronext: Cross fertilisation of European bond markets
Euronext’s expanding fixed income offering is creating opportunities for trading that have never existed before.
Alessia Baccalaro, Head of Group Fixed Income Retail Markets at...
Analysing the split between US and EU investment grade trade sizes
Recent reports that high yield (HY) trades are increasing in size and investment grade (IG) are shrinking, have ignored the year-on-year growth of European...
Interactive Brokers expands global bond offering
Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, has expanded its global bond offering within the IBKR Bond Marketplace, with regards to liquidity and trading...
House of Representatives hearing: Volcker link to bond illiquidity tenuous
Testimony given to the US House of Representatives on 29 March 2017 suggests the Volcker Rule cannot be directly blamed for poor liquidity in...
MarketAxess: Blockbusting Part 4 – Block Execution in US HG
In the latest of MarketAxess' Blockbusting series, our research team explores liqiudity profiles of block-sized RFQ trades between $1M- $10M on MarketAxess across a...
