Rules & Ratings: SAZ Re gets stable ‘excellent’ ratings from AM Best
AM Best has assigned African reinsurance firm SanlamAllianz Re (SAZ) a financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and a long-term issuer credit rating of...
Hermes appoints Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income
Hermes Investment Management, which has £30.6 billion in assets under management, appointed Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income, reporting to Eoin Murray, head...
Greenwich Associates: Growing dealer-client instability
By Pia Hecher.
Market intelligence provider Greenwich Associates found that between 2014 and 2018, there was a 50% increase in the median size of clients’...
Warning on credit exposure
There are several cases to argue for reduced credit exposure, noted Stefan Hofrichter, global economist at Allianz Global Investors, speaking on Wednesday at the...
Onbrane launches primary debt market blockchain simulator
Onbrane, a provider of short-term debt market digitalisation technologies, has developed a primary debt market blockchain simulator, shadowing real transactions in a virtual blockchain...
Ancoa goes into adminstration
Cinnober Financial Technology has acquired the assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company, as a going concern. Terms of the deal have...
Liquidnet: Connectivity is key for efficient trading
By Vineet Naik.
Liquidnet’s head of fixed income, Constantinos Antoniades, has emphasised the importance for connectivity between front office systems and trading venues as he...
FILS 2021: Portfolio trading up threefold
Portfolio trading in fixed income has grown threefold in two years, data from Flow Traders reveal.
Speaking at the 2021 Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS)...
Rob McGrath & Gregg Moore of Schroders: On united trading
Having created a global trading team over much of 2014, Rob McGrath (right), global head of trading and Gregg Moore (left), head of trading...
Banque de Luxembourg integrates MarketAxess’ Axess IQ order and execution workflow
Banque de Luxembourg, the private banking and wealth management group, has gone live with Axess IQ, the order and execution workflow system by bond...
October e-trading bond platforms; rates up, credit mixed
Electronic bond trading and data platform MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for October 2021 was US$619 billion with credit trading down 4%...
FILS USA: Whither electronic bond trading?
Jenny Xiao of BlackRock and Chris Concannon of MarketAxess discuss the trends that are reshaping credit and rates markets in the Industry Crystal Ball...
