LGIM saves US clients’ trading costs but pays US$500k fine for crossing trades
Legal and General Investment Management Americas (LGIMA) has accepted a fine of US$500,000 for failing to comply with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules...
Fiscal policy, market regulation draw bond-market concern
As a still-new US presidential administration settles in and the Securities and Exchange Commission pivots with its own new leader, fixed income markets face...
Meet the consolidated tape contenders
Europe’s development of a consolidated tape for trading data now has clear front runners, and benefits.
Three firms have confirmed they will compete to be...
Warning on credit exposure
There are several cases to argue for reduced credit exposure, noted Stefan Hofrichter, global economist at Allianz Global Investors, speaking on Wednesday at the...
On the DESK: Making traders integral to the investment process
Sonali Pier explains how a trader can stand out, and be given a sense of owning the investment process through leadership.
How is trading built...
Can TCA work for voice/chat credit trades?
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) – or execution quality analytics (EQA) – is a much sought after, but often objectively challenged, service in corporate bond...
UniCredit and ACTIAM join Trad-X’s dealer-to-client platform
Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic...
Houlihan Lokey boosts European team with Vieri Betti Guaraldi appointment
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Vieri Betti Guaraldi as a managing director of its capital markets group, part of its expansion of the European team.
In...
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...
Greenwich: Data analytics now more valued than market structure knowledge
Three out of four capital markets professionals say data analysis will be the most valued skill on trading desks over the next five years,...
Coalition Greenwich: Convertible bonds embrace electronic trading
As in other areas of fixed income, electronic trading is on the rise among convertible bond investors. And as investors become more comfortable with...
APEX:E3 new AI service ALICE codes equations found in reports, TCA and research papers
Technology and analytics provider, APEX:E3, has launched a new integrated AI service, ALICE, to allow buy-and sell-side firms to rapidly analyse large documents and...
