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...
Coalition Greenwich sees US bond trading volumes falling in Q2
A report by market analysis form Coalition Greenwich, part of S&P Global, has found that after an active first quarter, corporate bond trading slowed...
Bloomberg onboarded over 100 buy-side firms remotely during the pandemic
Bloomberg has reported that more than 100 clients globally implemented its buy-side solutions over the past year, between March 2020 and 2021. During the...
Octaura integrates list and RFQ into loan trading platform
Octaura has integrated list and request for quote (RFQ) protocols on its existing syndicated loan trading platform, in an effort to offer clients faster...
MarketAxess hires Steve Tait to lead US dealer execution business
MarketAxess has appointed Steve Tait as head of US dealer execution business - credit.
Tait joins after more than 26 years at JPMorgan, where he...
TD Securities becomes LCH SwapAgent member
TD Securities is now live as a LCH SwapAgent member, the first Canadian bank member, bringing membership up to 44 from across 12 countries.
The...
Sabina Awan departs Fidelity International
Sabina Awan has left Fidelity International after 17 years with the company.
Commenting on her departure via LinkedIn, Awan said: “I am deeply grateful for...
Quantum computing ‘breakthrough’ has “more red flags than a People’s Liberation Army parade”
The claim by HSBC that noise in an IBM quantum computer helped deliver a 34% improvement in algorithmic trading performance has been disputed by...
On The DESK : Gianluca Minieri, Pioneer Investments
The Greatest Concentration of Risk
Gianluca Minieri has been the global head of trading at Pioneer Investments since 2011, driving reform across trading operations, including...
China Bond Connect launches real-time DvP and block trading
By Pia Hecher.
Mutual market access scheme Bond Connect, the platform linking investors from Mainland China and overseas, implemented real-time delivery-versus-payment (RDvP) and introduced a...
Juggling the growth in CUSIPs
If the population of a country increased by 50% since 2014, you would think a housing crisis was likely.
Yet in the year The DESK...
Aegon AM: Bond market liquidity fears ‘overblown’
Fears over a potential liquidity crisis in the corporate bond market are “significantly overblown”, according to Adrian Hull, head of core fixed income at...
