Sean Koh departs GIC for Unifi
Fixed income trader Sean Koh has left GIC after 13 years and moved to Unifi Asset Management.
Koh is now a senior trader at Unifi,...
JP Morgan FICC e-Trading Survey: Inflation to have biggest impact
The JP Morgan annual fixed income, commodity and currency (FICC) e-Trading Survey has found that inflation is expected to have the greatest effect on...
Lead : Crossing trades & best execution : Dan Barnes
The best ways to cross‑trade
Crossing trades between funds is operationally complex but rewarding for investors and asset managers; using platforms to standardise the process...
StoneX builds out FCM presence with RJO acquisition
StoneX Group has agreed to acquire futures brokerage and clearing firm RJ O’Brien & Associates (RJO).
RJO generated approximately US$766 million in revenue in 2024,...
Will Irwin named FX institutional sales director at Lloyds Bank NA
Will Irwin has joined Lloyds Bank North America as director of FX institutional sales, based out of New York City.
Irwin joins from Spanish multinational...
Morgan Stanley: Fed buying programme has benefits beyond direct purchases
Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by Morgan Stanley analysts has found that its purchases of exchange traded funds...
LMAX Exchange picks pension fund veteran for Canadian FX sales
LMAX Exchange has named pensions veteran Daniel Lavigne as head of buy-side sales for Canada as it continues to build its FX trading business...
CME paper: Is US vs Euro rate differential greater than central bank rates?
A research paper by Erik Norland, senior economist of CME Group, has found that the difference between the futures and the spot price for...
GreySpark: FI markets will continue to see fragmentation based on all-to-all trading
A report by consultancy GreySpark has found that in 2020, global fixed income e-trading landscape has been defined by fragmentation in line with historical...
Ten years of research: Lessons for trading platforms in fixed income
Lessons on the viability and competitiveness of liquidity aggregation tools can be drawn form the last decade of research conducted by The DESK.
In 2015...
Simone Santiago leaves Morgan Stanley
Simone Santiago has left Morgan Stanley, the company has confirmed.
Santiago has been managing director at the firm since January 2022.
Prior to this, she spent...
Corporate Bond E-Trading 3.0: The drivers ahead
As electronic trading in the corporate bond market increases, those platforms and market participants who intend to be at the cutting edge of the...
