Trading: Loans and ABS: The fixed income markets time forgot
Trading in the less liquid parts of the fixed income market has remained relatively untouched by electronification.
Loans and securitised products backed by loans can...
What effect could retail flow have on credit markets?
Retail investment in equity markets has had two major effects on market conditions; one is an increasing engagement in direct trading into the market,...
US Credit: Liquidity costs trending down
The bid-ask spread in US high yield trading is falling again having suffered an uptick in December, according to MarketAxess Trax, which tracks trading...
JP Morgan takes stake in Mosaic Smart Data
UPDATE:
Further to our post of 23rd October, 2017, Mosaic Smart Data announced today that JP Morgan has added Mosaic Smart Data to its strategic investments...
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...
Genesis boosts Application Platform with new capabilities
Genesis Global has released a number of initiatives within Version 8 (G8) of its Genesis Application Platform.
The Genesis platform is used by firms to...
Raiffeisen Bank International executes first non-standard interest rate swaps
AxeTrading has extended its fixed income products’ offering to support non-standard interest rate swaps which is being used by its client, Raiffeisen Bank International...
Camille McKelvey: Time to turn things on their heads
Shanny Basar spoke to Camille McKelvey, Head of Post Trade STP Business Development at MarketAxess, about languages, diversity in the workplace and career paths.
She...
RUSD IB eyes growth with new hire
Labuan-headquartered Islamic investment firm RUSD Investment Bank has named Maxim Shashenkov as a managing director.
Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Shashenkov is responsible for the...
Overbond launches buy-side model for spotting mispriced bonds
Overbond has added a ‘rich-cheap’ model to its suite of AI fixed income analytics, designed to help buy-side desks generate systematic returns. Combining both...
Potential SEC pilot programmes explored by new bond committee
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) explored the possibility of prescriptive intervention to accelerate bond market structure and...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
