China sets its sights on opening up for foreign trade
Following its third plenum, the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has adopted the ‘Resolution of the Central Committee of the...
FILS in Barcelona: Tough calls for investors
Big picture phrases like ‘higher for longer’ and ‘transitory’ inflation are too imprecise to guide a professional investor, the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS)...
Key trends in OTC derivatives markets
ISDA:
ISDA: Key Trends in the Size and Composition of OTC Derivatives Markets in the Second Half of 2023
Swinburne: Traders should beware of radical change in Europe
Brexit will mean that politics will take precedent over principal, when setting policy in Europe, warned Kay Swinburne MEP, speaking at the Fixed Income...
On the DESK: Making traders integral to the investment process
Sonali Pier explains how a trader can stand out, and be given a sense of owning the investment process through leadership.
How is trading built...
The Book: Clearstream’s D7 hits €10 billion in digital issuances
Clearstream’s digital securities platform, D7, has reached €10 billion in issuance volumes. The firm reports that the service completes up to 15,000 new digital...
Trivedi joins Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund, expanding asset allocation
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund has seen the firm’s head of structured credit, Himani Trivedi, appointed to the firm’s portfolio management team.
Trivedi is...
Euronext and UBS partnership boosts bond liquidity access
Expanding the liquidity pool through partnership creates a wider net of counterparties to benefit buy and sell-side.
Euronext has launched its Liquidity Distributor Initiative, with...
The utopia of the consolidated fixed income tape
Lynn Strongin Dodds explains why Europe cannot look to TRACE as a role model.
Developing a consolidated tape for fixed income in Europe was never going...
SGX CDP live with Marketnode DLT direct-to-depository service for bond issuers
Singapore Exchange’s Central Depository (SGX CDP) has made a blockchain-enabled bond issuance platform available to market participants. Developed by Marketnode, an SGX Group-Temasek digital...
MarketAxess to buy algo provider Pragma
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pragma, a quantitative trading technology provider specialising in algorithmic and analytical services...
Colm Murtagh: The Long Goodbye
Dollar Swaps Markets Bid Farewell to LIBOR.
In July, it was linear swaps. In November, non-linear. And next week, on December 13, the further expansion...