Treasuries crunch: Sponging up Treasury liquidity
A considerable increase in trade failures, combined with falling volume and buy-and-hold strategies is creating a shallow market in US treasuries, making the October...
Erste Group: Adding valued regional trading expertise to your execution capabilities
Erste Group as regional market maker and primary dealer for the Central & Eastern European market is supporting electronic trading and regional expertise for both...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
EM stabilising could encourage market makers
Emerging market activity has seen a reduction in volatility in the first half of the year, with both volumes and pricing levels falling slightly,...
Demotivated dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
Sell-side bond trading is losing its lustre for traders, according to Greenwich Associates research. Increasing automation and regulatory changes may be the...
Fidelity International: “A new era for interest rates”
Steve Ellis, global chief investment officer for fixed income at Fidelity International has outlined dynamics which could affect debt markets in 2023.
“Fixed income markets...
Henriques poached by HilltopSecurities
HilltopSecurities has named Drew Henriques co-head of High Yield Municipal Trading, having poached him from Citi. He had been a high yield municipal trader...
How banks slash the cost of managing market fragmentation
A smart application of hardware, cloud and open source technology makes for efficient trading systems. The complexity of the fixed income market should not...
Concerns mount over stalled connectivity and price distribution
Fixed income traders still lack the direct connectivity they need to protect pricing and control data flow, according to leading buy-side stakeholders.
Speaking at the...
Le Saout named portfolio manager at ADIA
Tanguy Le Saout has been appointed portfolio manager (PM) for macro fixed income Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), a sovereign wealth fund with a...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
Dealers need to go with the flow
Broker-dealers must become more technologically savvy in the derivatives space if they want to impress buy-side clients. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
Multi-asset trading is increasingly...
