NowCM and Liquidnet look to accelerate new issue workflow
The NowCM Group, a system and infrastructure provider for the primary debt markets, has worked with Liquidnet, the investment and block trading specialist, to...
Bringing together fixed income trading and global youth empowerment: An emerging markets success story
Founded in 2000 by finance professionals who saw the social inequities in the emerging markets where they invested, EMpower supports hundreds of initiatives that...
Morgan Stanley to acquire Eaton Vance
Morgan Stanley is to buy investment manager Eaton Vance, which has US$500 billion in assets under management (AUM), for US$7 billion. The acquisition should...
Rates : Fully automatic? : Dan Barnes
Market volatility may shift rates back to voice in 2019
If predicted volatility pushes firms towards voice trading next year, rates traders will suffer from...
Transaction data missing from reports, FINBOURNE finds
Data quality is in need of a spruce-up before a bond consolidated tape is brought into play, according to a recent report from FINBOURNE....
Invesco global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz departs for Adroit
Invesco’s global head of fixed income trading, Glenn Taitz, has left the firm to take up the position of head of business operations at...
Municipal bond traders push for better execution
A standardised framework of processes could emerge from platform providers and regulators to support electronification.
In a market without infrastructure, common standards of behaviour and...
Hargreaves Lansdown offers retail investors access to gilts in primary market
Hargreaves Lansdown is giving its clients access to Debt Management Office (DMO) Gilt auctions.
Tim Jacobs, head of primary markets, Hargreaves Lansdown, says, “This...
Banks see strong Q3 across credit, rates following heightened activity earlier in the year
A new report by analyst firm Crisil Coalition has found that the unprecedented levels of volatility and trading activity seen in the first half...
2020: Finding positives in a tough year
While 2020 was a tough year on many levels, Lee Olesky, CEO of Tradeweb, has tried to pick out the positives from a market...
Groes to lead consolidated BNP Paribas FICC business line
BNP Paribas has launched a fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) global business line, bringing existing fixed income activities under a single umbrella. Arne...
Top tips from TradeTech: Connect debt, derivatives and equity trading
Buy-side traders have observed that close ties in the trading team based on the targets on an investment – be that corporate or government...
