Morgan Stanley: Fed buying programme has benefits beyond direct purchases
Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by Morgan Stanley analysts has found that its purchases of exchange traded funds...
Tradeweb to acquire US treasury algo execution firm r8fin
Tradeweb, operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, is set to acquire r8fin, a technology provider that specialises in algorithmic-based...
Gilt activity spikes as new rates reality bites government borrowers
By Dan Barnes and Etienne Mercuriali
Gilts market opening on the morning of 9 January suggested some traders took a big hit, with stop losses...
Karen Karniol-Tambour named co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater
Nir Bar Dea, co-chief executive officer at Bridgewater has confirmed that Karen Karniol-Tambour is now co-chief investment officer of the firm, joining Bob Prince...
Research: TCA use in bond markets
New research of 36 buy-side firms has found that 81% of respondents find fixed income TCA effective for assessing broker performance, 77% for regulatory...
James Rubinstein new Americas head of execution and quantitative services at Liquidnet
Agency broker and block trading specialist, Liquidnet, has appointed James Rubinstein as head of execution and quantitative services (EQS), Americas.
Based in New York, Rubinstein...
RBC joins ICE Clear Credit
RBC Capital Markets has joined Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Clear Credit as a futures commission merchant (FCM). RBC becomes the first FCM participant at ICE...
Tradeweb sees August ADV jump 53.9%, MarketAxess up 39.6%
Trading platforms MarketAxess, Tradeweb and Trumid saw substantial increases in their average daily volumes for August compared to the same period last year. MarketAxess...
LSEG selling MTS and Borsa Italiana for €4.325 billion to Euronext
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has sold Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4.325 billion, including bond trading marketplace MTS, which was a condition of...
Exclusive: Cboe goes live with US Treasury trading
Cboe has gone live with cash Treasury trading, the first trade having been conducted in mid-October. It is operating a ‘Full Amount’ execution protocol...
Michelle Neal: On taking great responsibility
Having managed the market divisions at several top-tier financial institutions, Michelle Neal is now responsible for supporting the most significant fixed income market in...
ESMA reports improving credit risk but Overbond warns on liquidity risk
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its latest ‘Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities’ (TRV) report, finding that fixed income markets continued to...
