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Frost rejoins M&G
Laura Frost has returned to M&G Investments as a fixed income investment director, after a two year stint at Aviva Investors.
M&G manages more than...
Coalition Greenwich: Fixed income driving futures revenue growth for dealers
Global futures volumes are up 71% between 2019 and 2025 with fixed income being the engine for that growth. A new Crisil Coalition Greenwich...
Barclays argues lower capital costs on gilts supports UK borrowing
Barclays has published a report making the case for lowering capital costs to hold UK government debt, in order to lower the costs fo...
Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for credit trading
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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McMinn joins trading team at Ninety One
Saskia McMinn has been promoted at Ninety One, becoming a fixed income trader at the firm.
As of March 2026, Ninety One holds £171.8 billion in assets under management.
Earlier...
HQLAX gains funding, plans Canton Network migration
Broadridge and Digital Asset have made minority investments in digital collateral mobility solutions provider HQLAX.
The investments follow increased interest in digital asset solutions across...
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Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
Trade size growth undercuts European bond market ‘equitification’
Since 2023 European corporate bond markets have seen trades size grow, as trading platforms report increasing volumes
“If we break down electronic trading growth in European...
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Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for...
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson named co-CIOs at RPIA
RPIA, a Toronto-based fixed income specialist asset management firm has appointed Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson as co-chief investment officers (CIOs), effective 1 June,...
Eurex: EMIR 3.0, are you ready?
EMIR 3.0 active accounts are set to change the European clearing landscape: are you ready?
Matthias Graulich, chief strategy officer and Executive Board Member,...
On the DESK: Making traders integral to the investment process
Sonali Pier explains how a trader can stand out, and be given a sense of owning the investment process through leadership.
How is trading built...
Could buy-side share data?
Oscar Kenessey, head of derivatives, fixed income and currency trading at NNIP has suggested that sharing data between asset managers could help to overcome...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
Liquidity recovery continues in European investment grade
The careful return to pre-trade-war bid-ask spread levels continues in European credit markets, according to data from MarketAxess TraX, which assesses trading across multiple...
Viewpoint: Chris Murphy – The simpler path to better trading
Chris Murphy, CEO of Ediphy explains how traders can engage with the latest protocols and technology through a single access point.
Firstly, what has guided...
The 2020 vision for primary markets
New platform launches in 2020 will see intense competition to manage the bond issuance process. Dan Barnes reports.
Traders at buy-side firms are looking for...
Fixed income fees normalising at JP Morgan
JP Morgan’s fixed income revenues in the fourth quarter of this year are expected to be 10% lower than the record final quarter of...
Meraki Global Advisors hires fixed income trader from Loomis, Sayles, & Company
Meraki Global Advisors has hired Meghan Siripurapu as a managing director at the firm’s Park City Headquarters in the USA, to meet the growing...
Changing with the times
By Paul Reynolds, CEO of Bondcube
For a long time I have thought that the bond market shares many dynamics with the grocery industry. Large,...
ICE Bonds expands fixed income liquidity network with TS Imagine connection
TS Imagine has connected to ICE Bonds to offer clients access to its fixed income execution protocols and liquidity.
TS Imagine customers using the TS...
