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Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks

Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks

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By Flora McFarlane. A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
Insight Investment named collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for £1.7 billion longevity swap

Insight Investment named collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for £1.7 billion longevity swap

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Insight Investment, an investment manager with £683 billion (€778.3 billion) assets under management, has been appointed as collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for...
7 Chord to integrate Glimpse Markets’ bond transaction data

7 Chord to integrate Glimpse Markets’ bond transaction data

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7 Chord, an independent provider of predictive prices and analytics to fixed income traders, issuers, and investors, has become the first AI pricing vendor...
The Book: HP prices US$1 billion in senior notes, prepares for tariffs

The Book: HP prices US$1 billion in senior notes, prepares for tariffs

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HP Inc has priced US$1 billion aggregate principal in senior unsecured notes ahead of 25 April issuance. Half the notes will be issued with 5.400%...
Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor

Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor

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Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematical Finance, joins as Scientific Advisor London, June 2019: Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has...
Houlihan Lokey adds to capital markets team with veteran hire Michael Hommeyer

Houlihan Lokey adds to capital markets team with veteran hire Michael Hommeyer

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Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Michael Hommeyer as managing director in its capital markets group.  Based in New York, Hommeyer will lead a...
ITG expands TCA into fixed income market

ITG expands TCA into fixed income market

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By Flora McFarlane. Agency broker ITG has announced that it is expanding its transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform into the fixed income market. Covering around...
Opening the black box: SOLVE’s new AI claims to predict ‘next-trade’ bond prices

Opening the black box: SOLVE’s new AI claims to predict ‘next-trade’ bond prices

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SOLVE, provider of pre-trade quotes data across fixed income markets, has rolled out an artificial intelligence platform (AI) that is designed to predict the...
SETL open sources its code with new PORTL solution

SETL open sources its code with new PORTL solution

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SETL, the blockchain company, is open sourcing its core framework, PORTL, which it intends to speed up adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technology...
EIB prices first sterling digital bond

EIB prices first sterling digital bond

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has priced its first ever £50 million digital bond using a combination of private and public blockchains operated and...
VedBrat named global head of trading for BlackRock

VedBrat named global head of trading for BlackRock

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Supurna VedBrat, currently deputy head of trading and co-head for Electronic Trading & Market Structure at asset manager BlackRock will become global head of...
Private equity sponsored debt activity momentum accelerated in Q4

Private equity sponsored debt activity momentum accelerated in Q4

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Unitranche financing reached new heights, with Q4 closing at 150 transactions—up 28% from Q3—and an annual total of 489 deals, marking a 38% increase...