BondBloxx outsources trading to Northern Trust
Northern Trust providing outsourced trading services to BondBloxx, an issuer of fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) which recently surpassed US$1 billion in assets...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
Derivatives : Brexit : Fred Maple
The impact of Brexit on European versus US derivatives trading.
Could the aftershock of Brexit land a win for the US? Fred Maple reports.
Many of...
FILS in Barcelona: Breaking up the monoculture
Diversity is not always visible, but its impact is. This was the key takeaway from the panel discussing ‘Launching new Diversity, equity and inclusion...
Katana launches on Bloomberg
Katana, the pre-trade analytics tool that helps to identify relative value opportunities for bond market dealers and asset managers, is live on the Bloomberg...
Volumes drop off as Q1 ends, but liquidity still cheap
A broad decline of trading volumes across European & US corporate bond and emerging market debt trading coincided with end of the first quarter...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
BlackRock CEO backs blended active/passive bond portfolios
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of investment giant BlackRock, has advocated the use of blended active and passive portfolios to optimise fixed income investments.
In...
TISE sees bond listings bump thanks to rosy macro picture
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) listed 444 securities during the first half of 2024, an 18.4% increase against the same period last year.
The total...
Banca IMI: Lessons for europe
As europe braces for the impact of MiFID II’s transparency requirements on an illiquid corporate bond market, some traders are at an advantage. A...
China opens up repo market with Bloomberg partnership
China’s Bond Connect programme has partnered with Bloomberg as it seeks to improve renminbi (RMB) bond market liquidity and boost foreign investment.
Bond Connect, run...
Investor Demand: Investors return to risk in September, State Street finds
Investor risk appetite has risen over September, according to State Street’s Institutional Investors Indicators, reaching 0.27 by the end of the year despite a...
