Exclusive: Bloomberg Message “sprayed dealer runs across the street”
Sources, including several dealers, have confirmed that Bloomberg’s Message service, used by broker dealers for sending runs to clients, “sprayed dealer runs across the...
Generali partners with Premialab for multi-asset investments
Generali Investment Partners has selected Premialab’s technology to support its portfolio management and risk functions in multi-asset investment.
“For over a century, Generali has remained...
Pacific Western and Banc of California merge, sell US$1.9bn in bonds, munis and treasuries
Banc of California has today completed its merger with PacWest Bancorp, with both firms shedding billions of dollars’ worth of agency commercial mortgage-backed securities,...
Macquarie Asset Management names Vivek Bommi head of leveraged credit
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has named Vivek Bommi as head of leveraged credit.
In this role, based in Philadelphia, Bommi will be responsible for the...
Muting Ren joins American Century Investments
Muting Ren has joined American Century Investments on its global Fixed Income Team. He will serve as senior portfolio manager and head of systematic...
SOLVE’s Ticker boosts muni market price transparency
SOLVE, provider of pre-trade quotes data across fixed income markets, has rolled out ‘Ticker’, its municipal market data offering as part of the SOLVE...
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
Cartel cases in SSA market continue as Rabobank fined €26.6m
The European Commission has fined Rabobank €26.6 million for participating in a cartel trading Euro-denominated bonds
The Commission alleges that between 2006 and 2016 Rabobank...
Lone Star State drives over $44bn in new US munis at November elections
Voters across the US greenlit more than US$44 billion in new muni bonds at November’s elections, with 55% of all mooted bond measures approved...
