DTCC proposes equity settlement cycle be shortened to T+1 within two years
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the US post-trade utility has released a two-year industry roadmap for shortening the settlement cycle for US...
Liquidnet: 39% of buy-side firms rethinking use of TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Traditional transaction cost analysis (TCA) could be a casualty in the shifting landscape of pre- and post-MiFID II regulation, with 39% of...
Repo markets are back in focus for the Fed’s Treasury Market Practice Group
The US Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practice Group (TMPG) has focused this month on discussing the status of repurchase agreement (repo) clearing and settlement...
European Women in Finance : Morgane Delledonne : Following a theme
Morgane Delledonne, director of research in Europe for Global X ETFs talks to Shanny Basar about ETFs, structural change and speaking the truth.
Morgane has...
Tradeweb joins forces with Boerse Stuttgart, sees Q2 revenues up 19%
Market operator Tradeweb is partnering with Boerse Stuttgart to offer the German exchange’s users direct access to liquidity in US bond trading. The exchange...
Dimis Theodorou joins ING
ING has appointed Dimis Theodorou as managing director and head of its UK debt capital markets syndicate, with a focus on high yield, emerging...
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...
SIX Swiss Exchange sees 36.5% jump in ETF trading turnover, but fixed income fails...
The Swiss stock exchange, operated by SIX, saw a notable increase in exchange traded funds (ETFS) activity for August – with 5.7 billion turnover...
Derivatives : Brexit : Fred Maple
The impact of Brexit on European versus US derivatives trading.
Could the aftershock of Brexit land a win for the US? Fred Maple reports.
Many of...
BlackRock sees rising fixed income allocations
By Pia Hecher.
BlackRock has reported that 38% of buy-side firms intend to increase fixed income allocations in 2019, up from 29% last year.
The firm’s...
LSEG integrates CanDeal pricing into Canadian fixed income indexes
CanDeal Data & Analytics (CanDeal DNA), the provider of Canadian data and information services, has expanded its relationship with LSEG businesses, FTSE Russell and...
GAM Investments onboards Bloomberg to improve risk and portfolio management workflows
GAM Investments has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg buy-side workflow solutions in a drive to streamline risk and portfolio management across the enterprise....