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What Mexico’s vol risk means for trading LatAm bonds
In Latin American (LatAm) markets, economic volatility may transfer into market volatility – most notably in Mexico.
In order to manage risk and seize opportunities...
Liontrust loses McLoughlin
Head of trading Matthew McLoughlin has resigned from Liontrust Asset Management.
McLoughlin has been a partner and head of trading at the active investment management...
MarketAxess holds US credit trading high ground in April volatility
A burst of spread widening and credit ETF related trading pushed US electronic credit trading to another record in April.
TRACE volumes for investment grade...
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Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Electric dreams in global rates markets
Electronic trading between dealers and buy-side institutions is taking different paths in government bond markets, globally. Lucy Carter investigates.
“We have seen growth in the electronification of...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
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, 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, 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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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...



























































