Chappell lands new trading role for 2020
Brett Chappell, the former head of fixed income trading at Nordea Investment Management, is joining Mariana UFP, a global financial services business in London...
When will T2S harmonise European bond issuance?
Target 2 for Securities (T2S), the ambitious brainchild of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurosystem, has the potential to lower the costs of...
Liquidnet integrates bondIT’s AI-driven credit research
Block trading specialist and trade information provider, Liquidnet, and bondIT, supplier of AI driven investment technology, are partnering to integrate bondIT’s Scorable Credit Analytics...
The burgeoning portfolio trading business
Electronic portfolio trading offers an efficient execution channel for baskets of bonds, but Lynn Strongin Dodds finds there are several barriers to growth.
Portfolio trading...
The reward of risk
By Larry E. Fondren, Founder & CEO, DelphX Capital Markets Inc.
Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the effective cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement...
FILS Day One: Traders give lessons on dealing desk versatility
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit launched with practical lessons from buy-side traders on how to handle the very different trading conditions seen in 2020,...
KfW issues first digital Euro commercial paper via Onbrane
Bond issuance platform, Onbrane, has onboarded KfW, the national development bank of Germany, and processed the first KfW's first Euro commercial paper via Onbrane’s...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has...
Market reports: Algomi to be acquired
Market reports are that pre-trade data provider Algomi will be bought by interdealer broker BGC. Stu Taylor, formerly the CEO of Algomi, joined BGC...
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...
