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Virtu data scientist jumps to Vanguard
Vanguard has appointed Erin Stanton as a senior manager and investment management product manager. She is based in Pennsylvania.
The company holds US$10.4 trillion in...
TP ICAP acquires Neptune, integrates into new credit business with bank partners
TP ICAP Group has acquired Neptune Networks the axe-streaming firm, co-owned by a consortium of investment banks. Neptune delivers real-time pre-trade bond market data,...
Exclusive: Redefining credit markets – Neptune Networks and Liquidnet
Byron Cooper-Fogarty, CEO of Neptune Networks, and David Johnsen, head of fixed income at Liquidnet, delve into their vision for this transformative partnership.
With TP...
Morgan Stanley exec joins Jefferies in Asia
Vivian Li has joined Jefferies as head of distressed trading and credit analytics for Asia. She is based in Hong Kong.
The firm reported US$289k...
Redha Achour leads Citadel Securities’ APAC credit trading
Redha Achour has joined Citadel Securities as APAC head of credit trading. He is based in Hong Kong.
Achour has more than 15 years of...
Piraeus €500m green bond, 7 times oversubscribed
Piraeus Bank SA, a subsidiary of Piraeus Financial Holdings SA, successfully priced a €500 million Green Senior Preferred Bond on 28 May 2025. The...
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Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Electric dreams in global rates markets
Electronic trading between dealers and buy-side institutions is taking different paths in government bond markets, globally. Lucy Carter investigates.
“We have seen growth in the electronification of...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trading Intentions Survey: The breakdown in 2025
This year we're diving deeper into the Trading Intentions Survey. to give a more nuanced view of buy-side engagement with trading services, platforms and...
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US liquidity costs spiked more violently than in Europe
Bid-ask spreads have widened massively in recent weeks, according to MarketAxess CP+ data, with the price in US investment grade nearly doubling in the...
French treasuries saw widest YtD median bid/ask spread following election
Following French president Emmanuel Macron’s unexpected snap parliamentary election on 9 June, the median bid/ask spread in French treasury bonds was at its widest...
FCA appoints UK Secondary Markets Advisory Committee members
The FCA has appointed members of the UK secondary markets advisory committee for June 2024 to June 2026.
The committee supports the FCA’s work in...
Credit: The big takeaways from FILS Europe
In a market ‘obsessed’ with yield pick up, seeing considerable inflows into bond funds, corporate debt is getting bought up en masse. While this...
Goldman Sachs adds streaming firm pricing to MarketAxess’ Live Markets order book
Bond market operator MarketAxess has announced that Goldman Sachs has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for...
Daniel Mayston leaves BlackRock
Daniel Mayston has resigned from BlackRock after nearly 20 years at the world’s largest asset manager, according to sources close to the company.
Mayston was...
FILS USA: Entry point for private credit liquidity providers “never been better”
Private credit has expanded rapidly in recent years, with the IMF recently reporting that the size of the market topped $2 trillion globally, of...
SEC fines BMO Capital Markets US$40m over misleading bond marketing
BMO capital markets corp. has agreed to pay more than US$40 million to settle securities and exchange commission charges over misleading marketing practices in...
Stephen Hannaford swaps Alphadyne for Citadel
Citadel has appointed Stephen Hannaford as part of its fixed income and macro trading team.
Hannaford has more than a decade of industry experience and...
“Game-changing reforms” needed to fix Europe’s capital markets, say European associations
A new report from three leading market associations outlines an ambitious roadmap to improve the competitiveness of capital markets in Europe through a combination...
SIFMA finds support for shift in benchmarking of 20-year US corporate bonds
The spread for many legacy 20-year US corporate bonds is benchmarked against the 30-year Treasury, but trade body SIFMA has found support for moving...
Michelle Neal leaves New York Fed for private sector
Michelle Neal is leaving the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, effective March 2025, for payment systems developer Fnality.
Neal has been an executive vice...