The cost of liquidity in EM today
A very graphic representation of the cost of liquidity can be seen in the latest data from MarketAxess. It shows that average daily volume...
Allegra Berman to leave HSBC
Allegra Berman will leave HSBC at the end of September, according to an internal memo seen by The DESK.
Berman joined the firm in 2013,...
Trivedi joins Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund, expanding asset allocation
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund has seen the firm’s head of structured credit, Himani Trivedi, appointed to the firm’s portfolio management team.
Trivedi is...
FactSet’s work with GIC launches new fixed income trading capabilities
FactSet has launched fixed income trading capabilities for its execution management system (EMS), Portware, a FactSet trading solution, which is best known for its...
EC launches wide ranging review of MiFID II/MiFIR and investment firms
The European Commission (EC) has launched a ‘Review of the regulatory framework for investment firms and market operators’ to capture any perceived changes needed...
IHS Markit and CBPC open up China’s bond market with new onshore indices
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Business information provider IHS Markit has launched new onshore Chinese bond market indices, which it claims are the first international, independent fixed...
OMS, EMS or something in between?
Many firms are considering merging their order management systems (OMSs) and execution management systems (EMSs), but oversimplification could be counterproductive, delegates at this year’s...
Are your traders for hire?
Growing numbers of asset managers are hiring third parties to provide their trading desks. Dan Barnes investigates.
Fixed income funds are under increasing pressure to...
Major firms rally around software standardisation
Major firms rally around software standardisation
The new OpenFin operating system, designed for use in finance houses, has gained considerable support for an initiative to...
US Treasuries: Coalition Greenwich update on falling interdealer volume and BIS warning
US markets have had an eventful summer according to analysis by Coalition Greenwich, which saw an average daily notional volume (ADNV) for US Treasuries...
Aldo Mannino joins Clear Street as it launches repo business
Prime broker, Clear Street, has expanded its securities finance offering with the official launch of a fixed income repo service.
In 2019, it launched a...
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...
