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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
Byron Cooper-Fogarty named CEO of Neptune Networks
Byron Cooper-Fogarty will become CEO Neptune Networks, the fixed income network for disseminating real-time axe data, and on 1 April 2024 with John Robinson...
Is your EMS still an EMS according to ESMA?
A decision by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the ‘trading venue perimeter’ consultation which denotes when trading systems are regulated trading...
Lead : BENCHmark Survey 2018
The DESK BENCHmark: Volumes down, efficiency up.
Fewer traders are managing greater volumes of trading in rates, while the volume of electronic trading is increasing...
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Rates: The risk of weighting sovereign debt
By David Wigan.
Sweden’s sovereign move has fired a risk weight debate. David Wigan reports.
One of the lessons of recent European economic history is that...
Daniel Fields named as TP ICAP’s new CEO of Global Broking division
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, electronic trading, data and market infrastructure, has appointed Daniel Fields as CEO of its Global Broking division, reporting directly...
Viewpoint : CDM : Massimo Morini & Andrea Prampolini
CDM FOR SECURITIES: THE MISSING DIGITAL LINGUA FRANCA?
By Massimo Morini, head of interest rates & credit models, and Andrea Prampolini, head of financial markets...
Orderly sell-off despite Bund bid-ask spread blow out
Borrowing costs for the German government spiked after an announcement of increased expenditure for its military, triggering a sell-off in German government bonds (bunds)...
Euronext’s vision for European fixed income
An interview with Fabrizio Testa, Head of Fixed Income Trading at Euronext.
What are the components of Euronext’s fixed income offering today?
Following the acquisition of...
Ending technology asymmetry in primary markets for bonds
By Rahul Kambli, Senior Product Owner, Genesis Global.
Accessing the primary market for corporate bonds can be lucrative for asset managers astute about pricing and...
OTCX: Why you should support electronification of fixed income derivatives trading
Trading over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives poses fewer burdens that ever before, but buy-side support can accelerate progress.
The FILS Daily hears the pace of electronification in...
FILS US 2023: Technology tipping point was years ago, says BlackRock research chief –...
Stefano Pasquali, head of liquidity and trading research at BlackRock, told Coalition Greenwich’s Bob Fink that when it comes to technology, the focus now...
Rules & Ratings: Securitisation reforms “stifling” for CLOs, LMA says
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has struck back at the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) positive initial assessment of post-2008 securitisation reforms, stating that the...
