Trumid announces record platform activity in January
Bond market operator, Trumid, has reported a record month of activity in January 2020 on Trumid Market Center, the company’s electronic bond trading platform....
Mubadala Capital continues expansion, acquires Silver Rock
Alternative asset management Mubadala Capital (US$27 billion AUM) is set to acquire a 42% stake in Los Angeles-based corporate credit asset manager Silver Rock...
Prioritising investment on the high yield trading desk
When we look at the priorities of trading desks in developing more automated tools, we can consider the longer term market trends as a...
Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the stock of government bond purchases at £435 billion and...
Greenwich Associates: Growing dealer-client instability
By Pia Hecher.
Market intelligence provider Greenwich Associates found that between 2014 and 2018, there was a 50% increase in the median size of clients’...
SEC proposes new central clearing rules for US Treasury market
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rule changes to enhance risk management practices for central counterparties in the US...
FILS in Barcelona: What a T+1 world will look like for fixed income
At FILS 2023, Stephanie Fraser of Baillie Gifford and Katia Felina, head of post-trade product at Bloomberg, discussed the future in both Europe and...
Reports: MTS to launch D2C initiative with backing from major dealers
Several market sources have reported that MTS Markets, the fixed income trading division of Euronext, is to launch a dealer-to-client credit trading offering through...
BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of Global Fixed Income, co-manager of the BlackRock Fixed Income Global Opportunities fund and BGF Global Bond Income...
What FILS delegates want
With the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) Europe upon us, The DESK has been speaking to attendees to discern what topics are most eagerly...
Technology: Educating data
Can better pre-trade data really unlock liquidity in frozen fixed income markets?
If buy and sell-side bond traders are to see real benefits from the...
Insights: PGIM: strong bond returns in 2025
Bonds will see strong cumulative returns in 2025, PGIM predicts, irrespective of poor Q4 2024 results
Since late 2022, the firm states that bonds have...
