Fixed income is Nasdaq’s greatest challenge
By Flora McFarlane.
Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
Portware claims ice cracking on EMS/OMS division
By Flora McFarlane.
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be aware of ...
QE: A rush for the exit
Fixed income portfolios need to be reassessed in preparation for the end of asset purchasing programmes. Dan Barnes reports. Quantitative easing has wound up an enormous ...
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 ...
Granit Funds hires Erlandsson as head of fixed income from AP4
Granit Funds has recruited Ulf Erlandsson as its head of fixed income starting in August. He comes from the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) where he had the ...
EMMI drops Euribor+ methodology due to low transaction volumes
The European Money Markets Institute (EMMI), a non-profit group established by national banking associations in the European Union, has dropped the Euribor+ methodology, ...
Bloomberg wins over AB and Capital Group with BVAL
AllianceBernstein (AB) and Capital Group have both selected Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service (BVAL) to benchmark and corroborate end-of-day values for US fixed ...
Sterling dealers recommend SONIA as alternative to LIBOR
The Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates – a group of major dealers active in sterling interest rate swap markets – has announced ...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market
OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing more than ...
Connectivity platforms report FI deals ahead of MiFID II
By Sobia Hamid.
House of Representatives hearing: Volcker link to bond illiquidity tenuous
Testimony given to the US House of Representatives on 29 March 2017 suggests the Volcker Rule cannot be directly blamed for poor liquidity in the corporate bond market.
The trouble with Treasuries
The DESK asks Susan Estes, CEO, OpenDoor Trading LLC., for her insights into the US Treasuries market. How would you describe the depth and width of liquidity in the US ...
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, ...
