Fixed income Archive

Banking regulation Basel III could breathe new life into the securities lending sector, market participants claimed yesterday at a forum in London. read more>

A new Australian venture, MMADX, is aiming to automate the country’s A$11 trillion money market securities and repo market, with an eye on expanding into other products and territories. read more>

MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, has appointed Robert Hammond to lead sales and dealer relationship management in Europe and the Middle East. read more>

Vega-Chi, a multilateral trading facility for bonds, has confirmed the launch of its new electronic order book for high-yield and subordinated financial bonds in Europe. read more>

UBS has extended the reach of PIN-FI, its internal fixed income liquidity platform for institutional buy-side clients, through a partnership with order and execution management system vendor TradingScreen.  read more>

Vega-Chi has set a date for the launch of its new multilateral trading facility for European high yield and subordinated financial bonds. read more>

Wednesday’s decision by LCH.Clearnet to increase the margin required for Italian bond exposure has highlighted the potential costs and liquidity problems market participants could face as a wider range of instruments are centrally cleared. read more>

Electronic trading of fixed income will struggle to grow so long as buy-side firms continue to value existing sell-side practices, according to a new report. read more>

Generalist investment trust Alliance Trust and wholly-owned subsidiary Alliance Trust Asset Management have selected software provider Charles River Development's investment management system as a single consolidated platform for its equity and fixed income operations. read more>

Bonds.com has entered an exclusive agreement under which Red Kite Americas will market the firm's trading system to qualified Latin American institutional investors. read more>