China government bond issuance reducing transparency of total social finance
Understanding state support for the economy in China can be measured across several dynamics, but debt provision to the non-financial private sector, known as...
Exclusive: Nichola Hunter to lead Liquidnet’s fixed income sales
Block-trading and agency execution specialist, Liquidnet, has appointed Nichola Hunter as global head of sales for fixed income.
Hunter will be responsible for growing client...
Market data ‘Bill of rights’ opens discussion on transparency, accessibility and ownership
A week after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority announced a consultation into buy-side access to data and benchmarks, bond pricing specialist BondCliQ and data...
State Street: Investors hesitant in fixed income across March
Investors remain risk seeking in equities but hesitant in fixed income – that is according to State Street’s Risk Appetite Index, which rebounded to...
MarketAxess executes first portfolio trade for tax-exempt munis
MarketAxess has executed the platform’s first ever portfolio trade for tax-exempt municipal bonds.
The portfolio trade was executed earlier this month between a large bank...
Getting the measure of sell-side portfolio trading
In its recent report on investment banking activity in 2020, analyst firm Coalition observed that there had been substantial growth in sell-side portfolio trading,...
OpenYield Trading prints first trade
Broker-dealer and alternative trading system OpenYield Trading has launched, printing its first trade.
OpenYield is designed to make access to the bond market easier and...
Atte Lahtiranta to join Citadel in early 2025
Citadel has appointed Atte Lahtiranta as head of core engineering. He will join the firm in early 2025.
Atte has close to 30 years of...
Fed names new sellers to SMCCF including Jane Street, Tradeweb
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released the the first wave of additional counterparties that it has selected to support the Secondary...
AM Best adjusts credit ratings and outlooks
AM Best has assigned and upgraded the credit ratings of a number of firms, reflecting changes to elements including balance sheets, operating performance and...
Press release: Markets Media and Trader TV announce joint content partnership
Markets Media, the global publishing house for capital markets, and Trader TV, the leading video content producer for institutional traders, have announced an agreement...
APG selects FlexTrade for multi-asset execution
APG Asset Management (APG) has selected FlexTrade’s execution management platform, FlexTRADER EMS, to consolidate and streamline its multi-asset execution management capabilities.
APG, headquartered in the...
