Liquidnet sees surge in e-trading activity, ‘record-breaking’ week for Europe’s primary market
Liquidnet has reported a record-breaking week for electronic new issues trading for the week commencing 8 January. Records were broken in terms of volumes,...
7 Chord to integrate Glimpse Markets’ bond transaction data
7 Chord, an independent provider of predictive prices and analytics to fixed income traders, issuers, and investors, has become the first AI pricing vendor...
CME Group announces Q4 2022 launch of European Overnight Index Futures
Derivatives marketplace operator, CME Group, has announced it will launch European Overnight Index futures based on RepoFunds Rate (RFR) benchmarks and the Euro Short-Term...
AFME urges co-legislators to ensure EU market attractiveness as MiFIR trilogues begin
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has issued a comment in response to the vote of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) on...
Vis Nayar named global CIO equities at HSBC AM
Vis Nayar has been promoted to global chief investment officer for equities at HSBC Global Asset Management.
Having started his career at KPMG, he...
Bloomberg cracks?
By Josh Weinberger & Dan Barnes.
The famously holistic service has broken out the Instant Bloomberg chat function for non-terminal users, delivering what looks like...
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...
UBS’s Slade announces major changes in DCM team
David Slade, global co-head of leveraged and debt capital markets (LDCM) at UBS has announced in an internal memo, seen by The DESK, that...
Pierre-Emmanuel Charlier joins Vontobel AM
Former Pictet Asset Management veteran trader, Pierre-Emmanuel Charlier, has joined Vontobel Asset Management, covering trading for credit, FX and derivatives over developed and emerging...
Electronic trading volume in US fixed income hits record
Electronic trading of US investment-grade and high-yield bonds reached an all-time high in July according to data from Coalition Greenwich.
Overall electronic trading accounted for...
Odd-lot bond case alleges pressure on Bloomberg and collusion
In the US Southern District Court of New York, a class-action lawsuit has been brought against a group of banks, alleging that since 1...
Tradeweb reports December 2020 volume up nearly 30% year-on-year
Bond market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for December was US$18.2 trillion across its marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
