O’Kelly appointed head trader at RPMI Railpen as it insources trading
RPMI Railpen, which represents the UK’s railway workers pension fund, has hired Tom O’Kelly as head trader. The scheme manages around £30 billion for...
Exclusive: Bloomberg Message “sprayed dealer runs across the street”
Sources, including several dealers, have confirmed that Bloomberg’s Message service, used by broker dealers for sending runs to clients, “sprayed dealer runs across the...
Will the EC ban electronic bilateral bond trading?
The broadening definition of ‘multilateral’ is at risk of capturing all trading if traders do not speak out.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
Alaa Bushehri promoted at BNPP AM
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Alaa Bushehri as head of emerging markets debt. She reports to Olivier de Larouzière, chief investment...
Adroit: Fixed income EMSs must reach beyond trading venues
Adroit Trading Technologies has raised US$15 million in a Series A round led by Centana Growth Partners. The cash will be spent on expanding...
MarketAxess re-launches Mid-X in Europe
MarketAxess has relaunched its matching session solution Mid-X in Europe, after simplifying the fee structure.
Mid-X offers daily, fully anonymous, matching sessions at the firm’s...
APAC trading recovery is far from even
The recovery from last year’s market sell-off and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic appears to have been marked in many regions, with volumes for both...
MarketAxess buys Deutsche Börse’s regulatory reporting business
Fixed income market operators and data provider, MarketAxess, has entered agreed to buy the Regulatory Reporting Hub, the regulatory reporting business of Deutsche Börse...
US rates activity explodes post-tariffs
Tariff tumult in the US Treasuries market saw average daily notional volume spike over March, up 31% year-on-year (YoY) to US$1.089 trillion at the...
FILS 2024: Multifaceted monster or tamed by technology? Views on liquidity
According to the buy-side, liquidity no longer meets the old textbook definition – the ability to buy or sell, at a given price, size...
Technology: What large language models do to the trading desk
LLMs are already adding value to trading teams.
The advent of Open AI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) tool has generated as many column inches...
BNP Paribas issues first Eurozone sovereign digital bond
BNP Paribas has arranged and placed the first sovereign digital bond issuance for Eurozone and EMEA in the Republic of Slovenia.
The digital securities coupon...
