Kuldip Takhar joins Amundi
Amundi has appointed Kuldip Takhar as head of UK institutional business development.
Takhar has more than a decade of industry experience and joins Amundi from...
SOLVE expands corporate bond pricing services
Market data provider SOLVE has launched SOLVE Px, a predictive pricing tool for high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) corporate bonds.
This tool will...
Bloomberg finds global bond deals down in Q3
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Bloomberg, the global financial data provider, has published its League Table reports for the third quarter of 2018 showing that the global...
How to get a better OMS
Electronification of bond trading makes order/execution management systems vital, yet traders feel they are having to push providers to keep pace. Dan Barnes reports.
If...
Supply, gross
Debt markets are looking bloated in Europe, with a 33% increase in European non-financial investment grade issuance year-on-year (YoY) year-to-date and a 31% increase...
Market Analysis: Pressure on US dealing desks is changing priorities in 2020
New analysis of market activity this year has observed that while issuance is “racing toward historic annual highs” there is no corresponding increase in...
FairCT wins EU bond CT tender
FairCT has won the EU bond consolidated tape tender.
The company has been invited to apply for authorisation. Once authorised, it will operate the tape...
Appsbroker launches Google Cloud market data platform
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Appsbroker has launched Appsbroker Cloud Data, a cloud data platform that delivers market and reference data.
The platform aims to offer lower costs...
Jane Street: Ten years of progress
The DESK and Jane Street first met in 2014 at FILS – we speak with Ian Shea, Head of Fixed Income Trading.
How has...
Fed: No bond ETF fees for BlackRock; JP Morgan still AWOL
Under the new Federal Reserve asset purchasing programme, BlackRock, the asset manager which is acting as the trading function for the programme, will charge...
Surge of activity on fixed income trading platforms
MarketAxess has regained the lead in US credit fully electronic trading amid a surge of activity in March with Trace printing a record US$61.2...
Disruption without interruption
David Parker, Head of MTS Markets International (MMI) discusses tapping into the benefits of fixed income trading technology.
Technological advancements are quietly – and sometimes...
