Quarterly European fixed income market analysis
Leveraging Trax’s vast market data set, the Trax Facts quarterly review provides a detailed analysis of activity across fixed income markets, including: Corporates, Agencies,...
Treasuries reform and the buy-side trading desk
Growing automation and market relationships will mean regulatory change is only part of the story. Dan Barnes investigates.
Plans to make the US$543 billion-a-day US...
Eurex boosts partnership programme with credit index derivatives
Eurex has added credit index derivatives to its partnership programme.
Eight banks and liquidity providers joined the programme upon its launch on 1 August, namely...
Technology: Desktop interoperability providers: What’s the difference?
Capital markets firms are improving trading efficiency via desktop interoperability technology, so we look at the different providers.
Desktop interoperability is not a new issue...
Signalling risk in credit, if one counterparty is 50% volume
How do you avoid information leakage? Does this change if half the market is trading with a single counterparty? Knowing that electronic market maker,...
Viewpoint: Measuring the performance of automated execution in volatile markets
The success of automated trading in bond markets is both persistent and consistent, says Andrew Cameron, director of trade automation at MarketAxess.
Automation technologies are...
Securitisation veteran jumps to Piper Sandler
Piper Sandler has appointed Mary Stone as managing director and co-head of the structured finance group.
Based in New York, she shares the role with...
Franklin Templeton to buy Putnam Investments
Franklin Templeton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Putnam Investments from Great-West for approximately US$925 million largely in equities.
Great-West will become...
Origination: S&P prices major senior note issuance
S&P Global has priced a total US$10 billion in senior notes.
The offering is split into US$600 million 4.250% senior notes due 15 January 2031,...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
Tradeweb poaches Daniel Swaby from Trumid
Tradeweb, a fixed income, derivatives and ETF electronic trading platform, has hired Daniel Swaby as director.
Swaby, formerly at Trumid where he worked in emerging...
OMS market: Vendors focusing on strategic sales pitch
Research suggests that an apparently limited interest in changing order management systems (OMS) on buy-side trading desks has been overcome by OMS vendors at...
