Coalition: FICC up 50% for banks in H1, rates revenues doubled
Banks saw fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues rise by 54.6% in the first half of the year according to analyst firm Coalition....
EM debt funds on a winning streak for inflows
According to Morgan Stanley analysis, emerging market (EM) debt funds have seen eight weeks of inflows over the summer period, representing the longest streak...
Copeman joins Federated Hermes as senior credit trader
Shaun Copeman has joined Federated Hermes as a senior credit trader, having left Fidelity Investments in April after eight years. Copeman adds to a...
Why US and European exchanges face very different landscapes
While European authorities try to push more trading back onto stock exchanges, which have entered a period of consolidation, US regulators are angling for...
LedgerEdge calls for industry participation in bond platform design
LedgerEdge, a new emerging ecosystem for the exchange of data and assets in the corporate bond market, has said Tim Cook, head of business...
Buy side issues framework to standardise bond issuance
The Credit Roundtable, a buy-side lobby group for bondholder protection has issued an ‘Investment Grade Primary Best Practices Framework’ designed to improve bond issuance.
The...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused on new...
SEC creates unit to tackle emerging risks
The Securities and Exchange Commission has created the Event and Emerging Risks Examination Team (EERT) in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)....
UBS CIO: Ways to find income in a low rate world
Mark Haefele, chief investment officer for Global Wealth Management at UBS has provided guidance, alongside a team of strategists, on where investment opportunities exist...
JWG: Cloud is “large systemic technology risk blind spot”
JWG, the regulatory think tank, has published a research paper ‘Risk control for a digitized financial sector’ which claims to identify a large systemic...
