CME: Rising open interest in credit futures signals confidence in corporates
CME Group has seen a rapid rise in Open Interest (OI) for Bloomberg Credit Futures.
In the past two months, the number of these futures...
Barclays Canada hires new head of investment banking
Barclays has appointed Ryan Voegeli as head of investment banking for Canada. Voegeli will be based in Toronto.
Voegeli has twenty years of investment banking...
Proprietary trading firms seek fixed income investment expansion in year ahead
Proprietary trading firms, buoyed by an optimistic outlook for the year ahead, are investing in trading new asset classes, particularly fixed income, with government...
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FILS 2022: Repo market not broken but can do better
Liquidity problems shone a light on the effectiveness of the repo market in recent months, speakers acknowledged at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders' Summit...
Neil Palan joins Sarasin & Partners
Neil Palan has joined Sarasin & Partners, an investment manager with £18.8 billion in assets under management, as a multi-asset trader.
Palan spent 16...
Portfolio trading challenged on best execution
For decades, tourists have flocked to Spain’s Costa Brava in anticipation of the three Ss, broadly understood to refer to sun, sea and sangria....
Greenwich Associates: European fixed income trading becoming more concentrated
Regulatory changes and difficult market conditions have made European fixed income a more challenging business for banks, according to analyst house Greenwich Associates, leading...
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Charles River Development to be acquired by State Street Corporation
Charles River Development, provider of the Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS), will be acquired by State Street Corporation, a deal expected to be...
TS Imagine releases new features for TradeSmart Fixed Income EMS
TS Imagine, the investment and execution management system (EMS) provider has launched several new features of its TradeSmart Fixed Income EMS, all designed to...
The Fed and BlackRock’s bond-buying criteria challenged
Detail around the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New...
Derivatives – Viable alternatives
Tougher capital and liquidity constraints for OTC assets are boosting exchange-traded products appeal to the buy side. Anna Reitman reports.
As trading over-the-counter (OTC) for fixed...
Europe’s liquidity rules are holding up… for now
New guidance on fund liquidity has followed redemption concerns in European equity and bond funds, writes Lynn Strongin-Dodds.
The risk that funds are unable to...
