FILS USA 2023: More progress needed to advance gender equality
Speakers at FILS US DEI brunch discuss ways to advance equity in the industry.
Women continue to advance their representation, pay, and seniority in...
SEC forms Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the formation and first members of its Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee.
The committee,...
What do shorter durations imply for trading?
Data from Dealogic shows that the average maturity for newly issued bonds has been falling in 2023 relative to recent years, with the current...
Women in Finance : Supurna VedBrat : Being on point
Supurna VedBrat, Global Head of Trading at BlackRock, talks to Lynn Strongin Dodds about strategic planning, diversity of thought and transferable skillsets
Although Supurna VedBrat,...
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“Fundamentally flawed […] inadequate”; SIFMA slams SEC’s best execution proposal
In a recent post from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), former chief economist and director of the Division of Economic and...
Mizuho EMEA sees continued growth in SCLF business
Mizuho EMEA has completed the pricing of Infra Group, bringing its total physical bookrunner roles closed in the European leveraged loan market over the...
Overbond, SS&C Eze partner to provide AI bond trading analytics
Overbond, a provider of AI-driven data and analytics and trade automation solutions for the global fixed income markets, has partnered with SS&C Eze to...
Why are European IG Bid-Ask spreads widening?
Liquidity in the European corporate bond market is becoming more expensive in both high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) trading. According to MarketAxess...
New SEC Fixed Income Committee to cover liquidity issues this week
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee, formed in November 2017, will hold its first meeting on...
EquiLend rolls out Orbisa securities lending data on Bloomberg Terminal
Equilend, a technology, data and analytics firm, has launched Orbisa securities lending data on the Bloomberg App Portal, providing a dataset comprising US$32 trillion...
ESMA: markets remain ‘very sensitive’
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said markets remain “very sensitive”, despite lower volatility earlier this year.
Markets remain sensitive to interest rate...
Electronic liquidity providers push for reform
The buy side relationship with alternative liquidity providers was strained five years ago after the high-frequency traders and their reputations – and business models...
