ICE: Muni Bonds – an interview with Ed Paulinski
In ICE’s series ‘The Munis Ecosystem’, ICE gathers experts from across the sector: issuers, portfolio managers, pricing & analytics, trading and climate experts, to...
FCA “utterly useless” engaging with EU over Brexit
By Chris Hall.
Veteran city commentator Anthony Hilton delivered a harsh verdict on the UK financial regulators’ efforts to support Britain’s finance industry ahead of...
MAS fines JP Morgan over fee misconduct
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has fined JP Morgan S2.4 million (US$1.79 million) over relationship manager misconduct, which resulted in clients being overcharged.
For...
Bondtape provides CT taxonomy to clarify definitions
Draft tender documents for the bond consolidated tape (CT) are expected by the end of the month, but there are still inconsistencies around market...
Insights & Analysis: BofA – Argentina’s global markets comeback imminent
Mid-term elections and an IMF agreement in Argentina this October could prompt the country’s return to global debt markets, Bank of America has predicted.
A...
Jane Street: Ten years of progress
The DESK and Jane Street first met in 2014 at FILS – we speak with Ian Shea, Head of Fixed Income Trading.
How has...
FILS 2021: Next steps to automating the bond market
Data analysis, interoperability and flexibility are the top priorities for automating the bond markets, delegates at the 2021 Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) in...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused on new...
CME Group folds FX futures, options, cash and OTC FX business into single unit
CME Group has folded its FX futures, options, cash and over-the-counter (OTC) FX businesses into a single unit led by Paul Houston which the...
Origination: Issuer profile – Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc
In October, insurance and risk specialist, Marsh & McLennan, priced US$7.25 billion of senior notes, in part to support its acquisition of McGriff, an...
Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance for bond trading automation
Overbond’s fixed income artificial intelligence (AI) will now offer protocol and system agnostic integration with venues and electronic trading systems used by sell-side and...
“Vested interests” scupper primary markets electronification progresses
Bond markets are electronifying fast in secondary markets and efforts have been made in primary markets too. However, the level of progress was hotly...
