“Complete misunderstanding … or try[ing] to baffle people”; Lutnick counters Duffy
BGC Group’s Q2 earnings call this week wasted no time at all before addressing the ongoing spat between CEO Howard Lutnick and CME CEO...
McKinsey expects greatest FRTB impact on larger European banks
By Flora McFarlane.
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) will have a greater impact on larger European banks according to a new report...
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...
Details on MiFIR deferral regime still needed
A draft report published by Danuta Hübner, rapporteur for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament, has detailed changes to...
Bloomberg completes first F-TIIE swap transaction in Mexico
Bloomberg’s Swap Execution Facility (SEF) has completed the first electronically traded TIIE de Fondeo (F-TIIE) swap transaction on BSEF, its swap execution facility.
The transaction...
Is issuance for the high jump?
Data from CreditSights indicates the pace of US investment grade bond issuance fell from May, only to jump back in August, at a point...
Credit: January sees largest average daily notional for US corporate bonds
January 2024 saw the largest single volume day and largest average daily notional volume (ADNV) month ever for US corporate bonds.
$75 billion of investment...
Lynn Challenger: Riding out historical volatility
UBS AM’s trading team is designed to engage by choice, not necessity, allowing it to move in heavily directional markets for the advantage of...
Coalition Greenwich: Convertible bonds embrace electronic trading
As in other areas of fixed income, electronic trading is on the rise among convertible bond investors. And as investors become more comfortable with...
Visualising aggressive pricing pressure on trading costs
Analysing year-to-date volume and trade number data from MarketAxess’s TraX database for US credit, and correlating it with the weekly average MarketAxess CP+ bid-ask...
Fixed income is Nasdaq’s greatest challenge
By Flora McFarlane.
Market operator Nasdaq has reported second quarter revenues from fixed income, commodities and currency (FICC) remained at US$19 million from Q1 2017,...
7 Chord’s EM sovereign and corporate bond feed prices on Nasdaq’s Quandl
Predictive bond prices and analytics provider, 7 Chord, has expanded its data offering on Nasdaq's Quandl. Bond investors and dealers can now leverage Python,...