CME paper: Is US vs Euro rate differential greater than central bank rates?
Erik Norland, senior economist, CME Group.
Coalition: FICC up 50% for banks in H1, rates revenues doubled
Banks saw fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues rise by 54.6% in the first half of the year according to analyst firm Coalition. It found that revenues ...
BNP Paribas Asset Management names new head of global trading
Sophie Lugiez, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Big names out at BGC
Interdealer broker BGC Partners has made a wave of job cuts, as announced in April, which combined with recent departures has removed several heads of electronic lines ...
Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocket in Q1
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 ...
FCA says HFT firms exacerbate and profit from flash crashes
A paper published by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has said that high-frequency trading (HFT) firms and agency traders exacerbate flash crashes in the equity ...
Fund location in a passive world
As hurricane Irma smashed into the British Virgin Islands (BVI) the headlines were correctly focused on the human impact. Yet in the financial markets there was an ...
Schroders' former head traders return to senior roles
Rob McGrath (l) & Nick Robinson (r)
PBoC & HKMA: No investment quota for northbound Bond Connect trade
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have given their approval to the local market infrastructure providers to collaborate in ...
Vive la revolution!
Securing the benefits of the markets’ democratic revolution. By Mike du Plessis, Managing Director, Global Head FX, Rates and Credit Execution Services and Mark Goodman, ...
