Ted Husveth: Measuring Execution Quality for Portfolio Trading
Ted Husveth, Managing Director, Credit Product Manager, Tradeweb.
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 ...
MarketAxess EM extends coverage to Egypt, Hong Kong and Serbia
Kevin McPherson, global head of sales with MarketAxess.
China Focus: The secondary effect of defaults
The bid-ask spread for bonds in China’ property market has expanded by 300% this year, although even more so for Evergrande which increased by 700% between April and ...
China focus: The outstanding debt of defaulters
Concern around issuer defaults in China is clearly based upon good evidence; our chart this week from S&P Global Ratings shows the annual growth in average ...
Exclusive: Katana’s intellectual property up for sale
The intellectual property of Katana, which provides trade ideas to bond investors, has been put up for sale by Hilco Streambank. Developed in-house at ING, Katana was a ...
Nicholas Stephan joins Liquidnet’s fixed income team
Nicholas Stephan, global head of fixed income product, Liquidnet.
E-trading bond platforms outperform banks' Q3 in fixed income trading
Market operator Tradeweb has seen a strong Q3 revenue against the same quarter in 2020, while electronic bond-trading MarketAxess has seen a slight decrease in revenues. ...
Sidi Shatku poached by BofA
Sidi Shatku, BofA.
Trouble ahead for traders as number of issued bonds climbs
According to data from Moody’s Investor Services, the US investment-grade companies should have few problems refunding their debt in 2022, which is useful given US$1 ...
FILS 2021: Buy-side needs to make more noise for the right data
Data providers and regulators concur that the buy-side needs to communicate more clearly with politicians and suppliers if they are to get baseline bond data, and more ...
FILS 2021: Portfolio trading up threefold
Portfolio trading in fixed income has grown threefold in two years, data from Flow Traders reveal. Ramon Balje, head of fixed income at Flow Traders.
Neptune announces new CEO, with strong buy-side support
Neptune Networks, the fixed income pre-trade market utility, has appointed John ‘Coach’ Robinson as permanent chief executive officer (CEO). Robinson commenced in the ...
Bryan Harkins joins Trumid
Bryan Harkins
7 Chord’s appliance of science boosted with new hires
7 Chord, the provider of predictive analytics for sovereign and corporate bond prices to fixed income traders, issuers, and institutional investors, has appointed Andrew ...
