UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
iQbonds is heavily used in the German...
Greenwich predicts schism in European and US bond markets
By Vineet Naik.
European bond market structure is likely to diverge further from the US, as a result of the different investment models which are...
Arabadjief joins First Eagle
First Eagle Investments has appointed Justin Arabadjief as head of high grade trading for municipal credit as it continues to build out its investment...
TransFICC: The Network is the Market – Improving access and automation in fixed income
By Steve Toland, co-founder TransFICC.
Remember Sun Microsystems’ tag line from 1984? “The Network is the Computer” – meaning computers should be networked, or they...
High yield market makers comfortable with risk
European bond traders are seeing average trade sizes expanding in September while bid ask spreads lower to the bottom end of their range as...
Getting the most out of derivatives in credit
Bond investing has become more exciting in the past two years than in the previous ten, with interest rates and central bank activity fire-fighting...
UK government debt issuance soars
The latest report from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), looking at European government bond markets, found that €1 trillion of bonds...
Milei’s victory saw Argentinian debt traders reach for rapid risk transfer
In late October 2025, Argentine President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, scored a decisive win, in the country’s midterm elections, a political triumph...
Euroclear launches new subscription-based fixed income liquidity data service
International central securities depositary (ICSD) Euroclear has launched Euroclear LiquidityDrive, a new data service, offering in-depth liquidity analysis on all fixed income instruments settled...
Origination: Chevron issues US$5.5bn as revenue slumps
Chevron issued US$5.5 billion of notes in August after a disappointing second quarter.
The energy giant reported US$44.8 billion in revenues in Q2 2025, a...
IMTC launches new, streamlined platform
Fixed income technology specialist, IMTC, has launched a new and improved platform designed to enable fixed income investment managers to improve the accuracy and...
China’s bond futures add to liquidity from index inclusion
Still fighting for the depth of US and Japanese bond markets, China’s liberalisation of derivatives trading bodes well for market liquidity. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
After almost...
