Frans de Wit is new head of trading at PGGM
Frans de Wit, the investment director for Treasury, Trading & Commodities at Dutch pension fund manager PGGM, has been named head of trading, following...
Bhuchar replaces Cox as head of FI trading at JPM AM
Nick Cox left his position at JP Morgan Asset Management as global head of fixed income trading at the end of 2017, a spokesperson...
Major firms rally around software standardisation
Major firms rally around software standardisation
The new OpenFin operating system, designed for use in finance houses, has gained considerable support for an initiative to...
David Blake leaves Northern Trust as director for Global Fixed Income
David Blake has left Northern Trust Global Investments as director for Global Fixed Income, after 15 years at the firm, following a restructuring of...
Mark Carney says bitcoin has ‘pretty much failed’ as money
Speaking at Regents University on 19 February, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said bitcoin, “has pretty much failed” on providing...
Trumid growing HY market share
By Flora McFarlane.
Trumid has announced trading volumes of US$2 billion in January 2018, more than doubling 2017 figures, with daily averages of over US$100mm...
Chappell leaves Nordea IM as head of fixed income trading
Brett Chappell has left Nordea Investment Managers as head of fixed income trading, with his role being filled temporarily by Jakob Jessen, executive director...
MarketAxess reports record electronic trading volumes for January
By Flora McFarlane.
MarketAxess, electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, has reported that January was a record month for daily and monthly trading volumes,...
Greenwich Associates: Buy side negative on CLOB for US treasuries
By Flora McFarlane.
Only 16% of buy-side firms thought using a central limit order book (CLOBs) would have a positive impact on trading US treasuries,...
Paul Squires to join Invesco
Paul Squires is to join Invesco as head of EMEA Equity Trading, the asset management firm has confirmed, leaving his role as head of...