EIB’s Project Venus issues second digital bond on blockchain
The European Investment Bank (EIB) — in collaboration with Goldman Sachs Bank Europe, Santander and Société Générale — launched Project Venus, their second euro-denominated...
Symphony acquires natural language processing platform Amenity Analytics
Symphony, the market infrastructure and communications platform, has acquired Amenity Analytics, a natural language processing (NLP) data analytics solution. Amenity Analytics is designed to...
ICMA says execution and order management systems are not trading venues
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has responded to the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) consultation into the ‘trading venue perimeter’ by arguing...
Handelsbanken Fonder AB adopts Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise
Handelsbanken Fonder AB, a subsidiary of Handelsbanken managing approximately 100 mutual funds, has adopted PORT Enterprise, Bloomberg’s portfolio and risk analytics solution, to further...
Absorbing Gilt
The year after next, the UK is set to issue £305 billion gilts to support the government’s spending programme. The high level of issuance...
IPC and BondWave announce partnership to simplify pre-trade price discovery
IPC Systems, the communications and connectivity specialist has integrated its Unigy trade communications platform and IQ/Max Touch financial terminal with the BondWave Calculator, a...
Fidelity International: “A new era for interest rates”
Steve Ellis, global chief investment officer for fixed income at Fidelity International has outlined dynamics which could affect debt markets in 2023.
“Fixed income markets...
ASX loses AUS$250 million on failed blockchain settlement project
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has pulled its project to replace its existing settlement system, CHESS, with a blockchain-based settlement system.
The project, which has...
New York Fed economists see US Treasury liquidity at crisis levels
Current US Treasury market liquidity is comparable with the 2007-09 global financial crisis and the March 2020 crisis, particularly for the two-year note, according...
Tellimer launches end-of-month emerging market bond pricing data
Tellimer Group and information, data & technology provider has launched end-of-month emerging market (EM) bond price data on its global research and data platform,...
