AllianceBernstein CEO calls for review of daily dealing bond funds
Seth Bernstein, CEO, AllianceBernstein
BNP Paribas Asset Management names new head of global trading
Sophie Lugiez, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Platform volumes in May up on 2019 levels
Rick McVey, CEO, MarketAxess
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 ...
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 ...
MTS BondsPro pushes into Mexican bond markets
Fixed income market operator MTS Markets, part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has expanded its reach into Mexico via a marketing agreement with US-registered ...
Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocket in Q1
AxeTrading expands modelling and pricing tools; builds out FX and futures
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, has launched version 5 of AxeTrader, its fixed-income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. This ...
Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April
Lee Olesky, CEO, Tradeweb
BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock
EM in ‘limbo’ provides trading and pricing challenges
Emerging market bond funds have seen outflows continue to slow significantly, with Morgan Stanley’s analysts estimating it at US$1.8 billion, equating to about 0.42% of ...
Liquidnet reports 57% jump in bond liquidity during volatile markets
Liquidnet has reported that the recent volatility led to an increase in bond trading volumes on the all-to-all block trading platform.
Buy side finds trading on the turn no less challenging
When everyone was selling and no-one was buying liquidity vanished. However, as bond market outflows lessen, and in some cases reverse, many buy-side traders find they ...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has raised concern around the ...
Chappell and Nuyts launch European outsourced trading centre
Bart Nuyts and Brett Chappell
