A surfeit of bonds?
Henry I of England famously died from eating a surfeit of lampreys – a delicacy until consumed to excess. Central banks might want to...
BlackRock CEO backs blended active/passive bond portfolios
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of investment giant BlackRock, has advocated the use of blended active and passive portfolios to optimise fixed income investments.
In...
FILS 2022: SFDR adds ESG onus to new fund launches
The EU’s new regulatory framework for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing has caused confusion among the fixed income market, but is putting more...
Analysing the split between US and EU investment grade trade sizes
Recent reports that high yield (HY) trades are increasing in size and investment grade (IG) are shrinking, have ignored the year-on-year growth of European...
Juggling the growth in CUSIPs
If the population of a country increased by 50% since 2014, you would think a housing crisis was likely.
Yet in the year The DESK...
Insight & Analysis: Municipals’ primary and secondary markets hit records
According to Sifma data, municipals’ primary markets issued a record US$162.8 billion of new debt in the second quarter of 2025, eclipsing the previous...
Parameta and PeerNova launch ClearConsensus price valuation for OTC derivatives
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of TP ICAP Group, has partnered with PeerNova, a Silicon Valley data analytics and management company, to...
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
Euronext GRSS acquisition marks interest rate benchmark indices expansion
Euronext is set to acquire 75% of the share capital of Global Rate Set Systems (GRSS), a provider of services to benchmark administrators, as...
Barclays: Portfolio trading 8% of US credit market volume
Barclays has conducted new analysis into portfolio trading of corporate bonds, estimating the trading protocol now makes up 8% of US credit trading.
The firm...
Buy-side support for FSB on CCP resolution
US buy-side trade body the Investment Companies Institute (ICI) says it supports the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB’s) guidance on central counterparty (CCP) resolution.
CCPs became...
Primary concern : FIXing issuance
Efforts are underway to automate debt offerings and give the buy side greater control. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
Initial public and debt offerings can be...
