Insights & Analysis: Risk appetite rises as market stability risks fall, BofA says
An increasing number of investors are taking higher risks relative to their benchmarks, according to Bank of America’s February Global Fund Manager Survey.
The net...
Buy side reports price movement risk in Treasury trading
Automated trading and derivatives are changing the way US Treasuries are traded, exposing the buy side to high-frequency trading strategies. Chris Hall reports.
If big...
Interactive Brokers expands global bond offering
Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, has expanded its global bond offering within the IBKR Bond Marketplace, with regards to liquidity and trading...
ING spins out AI bond tool for commercial buy-side use
ING has spun out Katana, its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for bond pricing, into a London-based standalone company called Katana Labs. ING Ventures will...
Liquidnet sees surge in e-trading activity, ‘record-breaking’ week for Europe’s primary market
Liquidnet has reported a record-breaking week for electronic new issues trading for the week commencing 8 January. Records were broken in terms of volumes,...
Chris Gerlach joins MUFG
MUFG Securities Americas has hired Christopher Gerlach, a highly experienced credit derivatives and cash bond trader, as a director. He joins from BNP Paribas...
Achintya Mangla to head up financing for investment banking at Citi
Citi has named Achintya Mangla head of financing for investment banking.
In the newly created role, Mangla will report to head of banking Vis Raghavan...
Sherpa Edge Trading to close
Outsourced trading provider Sherpa Edge is to close. A statement posted by the firm said, “Efforts to roll-out buy-side trade execution have been challenging....
Derivatives : Brexit : Fred Maple
The impact of Brexit on European versus US derivatives trading.
Could the aftershock of Brexit land a win for the US? Fred Maple reports.
Many of...
BondCliQ users get MTS BondsPro data for US credit market
MTS Markets International, part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and BondCliQ, a new corporate bond market data solution, have partnered to provide BondCliQ...
Making prices more easily
If dealers cannot make prices investors will have to, and many firms are stepping up to offer greater access to pricing and liquidity data....
The cost of transparency and the value of information
Transparency can smell like information leakage by any other name, to butcher a Shakespeare quotation. Giving up information needs to happen at the latest...