Khazen joins LMAX
FX and digital assets exchange LMAX Group has named Ilya Khazen as head of cross-asset sales. Based in New York, he reports to managing...
Bloomberg launches RMB-denominated Liquid China Credit Index
Bloomberg has launched the Bloomberg Barclays Liquid China Credit (LCC) Index, designed to track the liquid, tradable portion of the RMB-denominated credit bond market....
China Focus: The secondary effect of defaults
The bid-ask spread for bonds in China’ property market has expanded by 300% this year, although even more so for Evergrande which increased by...
IHS Markit and CBPC open up China’s bond market with new onshore indices
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Business information provider IHS Markit has launched new onshore Chinese bond market indices, which it claims are the first international, independent fixed...
Research profile: Neptune shines bright
The DESK spoke with Byron Cooper-Fogarty, CEO of Neptune, to understand how it keeps delivering for buy-side users.
Axe streaming service, Neptune, has continued to...
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Rules & Ratings: Italy in “strong position” to weather tariffs, S&P says
S&P Global Ratings has raised its unsolicited long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings for Italy to BBB+, with a stable outlook. Short-term...
Howell promoted at T Rowe Price
Matt Howell has been promoted to global head of trading strategy at T Rowe Price.
“I am looking forward to further developing our capabilities to...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust...
BGC confirms FMX launch date of 23 September
BGC Group has confirmed that its FMX Futures Exchange will launch on 23 September, just one week from today.
The US interest rate futures exchange...
EUREX: Why credit index futures are here to stay
Lee Bartholomew, global head of fixed income and currencies product design, and Davide Masi, fixed income ETD product design at Eurex spoke to The DESK...
MarketAxess to buy algo provider Pragma
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pragma, a quantitative trading technology provider specialising in algorithmic and analytical services...
Franklin Templeton closes Apera Asset Management acquisition
Franklin Templeton has completed its latest expansion bid, closing the acquisition of Apera Asset Management.
Pan-European private credit company Apera holds more than €5 billion...
