On the Desk: Malin Norberg on buy-side trading with a P&L
Norges Bank Investment Management’s almost unique position, managing a fund with a single owner, allows it a very innovative way of trading into the...
US credit traders watch volumes, e-trading grow
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) in US corporate bonds have been rising steadily since 2022, already hitting US$49.8 billion year-to-date. According to asset managers...
Are European exchanges allowed to rival size of US markets?
The European Commission (EC) has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Refinitiv by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) under the...
Jenny Bloomfield swaps Schroders for Kuwait Investment Office
Kuwait Investment Office has appointed Jenny Bloomfield as a senior Treasury dealer. She is based in London.
Bloomfield has 20 years of industry experience and...
Fink: BlackRock’s private credit strategy ties Prequin and Aladdin
In BlackRock’s second quarter (Q2) earnings call, CEO and chairman, Larry Fink, has set out the firm’s vision of expansion into private credit markets.
He...
Muni market booms, e-trading crawls
Despite rising trading activity in the US municipal bond market, electronic trading remains a small component of the market, up just 0.6 percentage points...
BNP Paribas loses Puget to BlueCrest
Francois Puget has joined fixed income macro trading firm BlueCrest Capital Management as a senior portfolio manager after almost 30 years with BNP Paribas.
Based...
Etrading Software announces CT consultative committee
Etrading Software has announced the members of its consultative committee, which will provide recommendations and external advice on the UK bond tape’s recommendations.
Of the...
Video: Trends in Fixed Income Trading: Metamodern Meditations on the Future Market Structure
Russell Dinnage, managing consultant at GreySpark Partners, talks about how the structure of trading in the fixed income market could change over the next...
Primary markets : Discretion is the better part of bond issuance
The US regulator has raised questions over bank control of new issuance automation – the question is whether banks behave with valour.
A recent report...
JP Morgan leads Q1 trading results, Dimon calls for deregulation
JP Morgan raced ahead of competitors in fixed income trading revenues over the first three months of 2025, reporting over US$1 billion more than...
AI is giving credit traders extra digits
Artificial intelligence is helping to refine bond‑trading workflows with a speed and depth that would have seemed improbable even a few years ago. Fixed‑income...
