Over stimulating?
The biggest new-issue news over the past week has been the biggest ever European stimulus package – the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery plan – and getting allocations ...
European Women in Finance : Alexandra Boyle : Making a noise
Alexandra Boyle, Head of Client Strategic Group at OpenFin, speaks to Markets Media’s senior writer Shanny Basar about her career, her philosophy and her inspiration.
ESMA corrects SI bond ranking to place BNP Paribas as second in Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has republished its ESMA Annual Statistical Report, now stating that the largest systematic internalisers (SIs) for ...
DirectBooks launches platform for issuance of US corporate bonds; European expansion on cards
Rich Kerschner, CEO, DirectBooks.
China’s bond futures add to liquidity from index inclusion
Still fighting for the depth of US and Japanese bond markets, China’s liberalisation of derivatives trading bodes well for market liquidity. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports. ...
Portfolio trading is booming in liquidity crisis
Ongoing market volatility has led to a spike in popularity of portfolio trading according to trading platforms, dealers and buy-side traders. Market operator Tradeweb ...
Bond trading boosts BNP Paribas’s FICC revenues
BNP Paribas’s investment bank delivered double digit revenue growth in 2019, with revenues for Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) up by over 30%. The ...
The 2020 vision for primary markets
New platform launches in 2020 will see intense competition to manage the bond issuance process. Dan Barnes reports. Traders at buy-side firms are looking for help in the ...
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 ...
FILS 2018: Brexit may further impede transparency
By Joel Clark.
Derivatives : Migrating benchmarks : Dan Barnes
LIBOR: WHEN TO JUMP ON THE SOFR The transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to overnight indexed swap rates is moving, but when should the buy-side ...
Derivatives : Exchange-traded products : Joel Clark
Why listed derivatives struggle to address risk Some traders have been critical of listed products designed to replicate OTC derivatives, but exchanges are working hard ...
Credit : Information overload : Dan Barnes
Dealer axes: Can’t see the wood for the trees A proliferation of axes and inventories are making dealer data hard to consume by trading desks. Dan Barnes reports. The ...
Bhuchar replaces Cox as head of FI trading at JPM AM
Nick Cox left his position at JP Morgan Asset Management as global head of fixed income trading at the end of 2017, a spokesperson has confirmed. Amit Bhuchar replaced ...
