Analysis: BNP Paribas / AXA IM merger as French AMs roll up
The BNP Paribas Group has entered into exclusive negotiations with AXA to acquire 100% of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), representing close to €850...
Reports: MTS to launch D2C initiative with backing from major dealers
Several market sources have reported that MTS Markets, the fixed income trading division of Euronext, is to launch a dealer-to-client credit trading offering through...
Charlie Enright joins Symetra
Charlie Enright has joined insurance and retirement specialist, Symetra, as a credit trader.
Enright spent nearly seven years at Genworth, a similarly focused buy-side firm,...
Row erupts as CBOE seeks to define exchange boundaries
An application by multi-asset market operator, CBOE, to define what is considered a ‘facility’ of the exchange, has triggered a row. The firm sought...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
The ‘venue’ question raised by ESMA’s new order execution consultation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on the development of technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for establishing and assessing the...
valantic FSA to develop web UI for Nasdaq Rates Trader
valantic FSA has agreed to develop Nasdaq Rates Trader, a new web-based user interface for Nasdaq’s Nordic and Baltic fixed income markets.
The new UI...
Sustainable bond issuance now 12% of total market
A report co-authored by Nicholas Pfaff, Valérie Guillaumin, Simone Utermarck, Ozgur Altun and Stanislav Egorov of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has found...
IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
Opinion: Competition, not regulation, will make better bond markets
European credit trading has historically seen levels of electronic trading of around 50% of total corporate credit trading, while the US market has historically...
