Key trends in OTC derivatives markets
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ISDA: Key Trends in the Size and Composition of OTC Derivatives Markets in the Second Half of 2023
BondCliQ’s new portfolio trade reporting changes understanding of volumes and counterparties
Market data solutions provider, BondCliQ, will be launching a dynamic weekly report which aggregates and analyses data on US portfolio trading (PT) from TRACE,...
Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
By Flora McFarlane.
A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
RBC names Michael Mullholland director of leveraged credit sales
RBC has named Michael Mulholland director of leveraged credit sales, based in London.
Mulholland joins from UBS, where he was part of the firm’s leveraged...
Fixed income ETFs struggling with liquidity crisis
Fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) are reportedly struggling in the current liquidity crisis, while their market makers are trying hard to get delta...
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...
Insights & Analysis: UBS: Opportunity to “lock in rates higher” ahead of cuts
Fed governors appear to be leaning into a more dovish approach ahead of expected rate cuts this September, UBS observed in a research note,...
Changing with the times
By Paul Reynolds, CEO of Bondcube
For a long time I have thought that the bond market shares many dynamics with the grocery industry. Large,...
Sean Koh departs GIC for Unifi
Fixed income trader Sean Koh has left GIC after 13 years and moved to Unifi Asset Management.
Koh is now a senior trader at Unifi,...
Quantitative Brokers: Rate futures market susceptible to shocks
A new paper by Quantitative Brokers’ research team, led by Shankar Narayanan has found that the average quote size of many interest rate futures...
Liquidnet reports 57% jump in bond liquidity during volatile markets
Liquidnet has reported that the recent volatility led to an increase in bond trading volumes on the all-to-all block trading platform.
“In the last six...
Dave Antonelli Joins IMTC from BlackRock
Fixed income technology provider IMTC has appointed Dave Antonelli as a strategic account executive within its sales team.
Antonelli has more than two decades of...
