Swedish broker shut for pushing risky bonds and illicit issuer payments
Swedish market regulator, Finansinspektionen (FI), has revoked all permits for Nord Fondkommission AB (Nord FK) to continue trading.
Nord FK is a securities firm whose...
Parameta Solutions becomes an authorised benchmark administrator
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP, has become a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorised benchmark administrator, which it claims makes...
CME Group expands credit suite as hedge demand grows
CME Group has begun trading high yield duration-hedged credit futures, based on Bloomberg corporate bond indexes.
The futures include an intercommodity spread with US Treasury...
Joeri Wouters: On the millennial trader
Balancing a trader’s discipline and the curiosity of the millennial generation is creating a strong approach to negotiating the evolving fixed income landscape.
What are...
EMIR refit: get ahead of upcoming changes
By Joanne Salkeld at MarketAxess
The European Commission's regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) is aimed at simplifying EU legislation and reducing any unnecessary regulatory...
FILS USA 2022: Fixed income turbulence to continue says AllianceBernstein CEO
The turbulence in fixed income markets over the past six months likely will continue through the second half of 2022, according to Seth Bernstein,...
The Agency Broker Hub: A look at outsourced trading trends
By Loris Buscaino and Matteo Pezzutti – Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division, Intesa Sanpaolo
Outsourced trading is not a new concept, but...
Nomura settles 2021 unlawful trading fine
Nomura Securities has paid a 21.76 million yen administrative monetary penalty following unlawful trading of Japanese government bond futures in March 2021.
Japan’s Financial Services...
T Rowe Price picks IMTC for SMA launch
T Rowe Price has chosen IMTC to support its fixed income separately managed accounts (SMA) services.
Global asset manager T Rowe Price holds approximately US$1.65...
JWG: Cloud is “large systemic technology risk blind spot”
JWG, the regulatory think tank, has published a research paper ‘Risk control for a digitized financial sector’ which claims to identify a large systemic...
UK pension fund clearing exemption gets long-term renewal
Following a November 2023 call for evidence, the UK government has decided to extend the exemption for pension funds to clear certain derivative contracts...
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets team up to tackle European consolidated tape
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets today jointly issued the following statement:
“We are pleased to announce an initiative to jointly explore the delivery of a...
