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...
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...
Fixed income’s slow adaptation to payment for research
By Flora McFarlane
While MiFID II’s unbundling rules across the board are in full swing, fixed income is still getting used to the accompanying cultural...
Margin calls for bitcoin futures pose systemic threat
AIG failed in 2008, because the value it placed upon the mortgages underpinning the credit default swaps it had sold to Goldman Sachs was...
James Wallin: On valuing the desk
Proving and demonstrating the value of the trading desk at the very highest levels of the organisation creates a virtuous circle of investment and...
ING’s AI is smarter at pricing bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
ING has launched Katana, a new artificially intelligent (AI) bond trading tool which uses predictive analytics to help price trades for clients....
Staying the course: Outlook for 2018
By Boon Peng Ooi, chief investment officer for fixed income, at Eastspring Investments.
Over the past two years, a “strategy” of “tactically” trading risk has...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed-income future shaky for dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
Analyst firm Greenwich Associate’s report on investment banks trading European fixed income, has indicated that the first half of 2017’s buoyancy on...
FCA fines former BAML bond trader for spoofing
By Flora McFarlane.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch bond trader £60,090 for engaging in market...
US unbundling does not impose fiduciary execution rules on dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
US banks are able to unbundle trade execution and research payments without incurring fiduciary responsibility for trade execution. Following a lengthy process...
