S&P Global Ratings: European credit spreads still wide
In its latest ‘Europe Credit Markets Update’, S&P Global Ratings has painted a grim picture for European borrowers, notably in the high yield space, which it labels ...
Greenwich: Buy-side traders rate counterparties by data, not friendship
Relationships are becoming less important when buy-side traders are deciding which counterparties to trade with, as data on previous trading activity takes on a greater ...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between members, has highlighted ...
Fed begins buying bond ETFs
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has begun to buy fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF).
MarketAxess Q1 revenue up 36%; reports on US spreads
Rick McVey, CEO, MarketAxess
The Fed and BlackRock's bond-buying criteria challenged
Detail around the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New ...
ICE freezes bond indices until 30th April
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE’s) ICE Data Indices (IDI) has postponed the rebalancing of all the ICE and ICE BofA indices for bond, preferred and convertible ...
ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1 2019. However, the composite Global ...
Record volumes reported across platforms
By Vineet Naik.
Bond funds hit by massive fee discounts; active revenues predicted to fall
Bond funds are dropping their investment management fees by up to 37% - in the case of passive funds – from those of the published prices, in order to win business from ...
