Fixed Income

icubic AG and Fimas GmbH enter sales and marketing co-operation

icubic AG, a provider of software solutions for the electronic trading of financial instruments, and Fimas GmbH, a provider of specialist consultancy services to active market participants in global financial instrument trading, have committed to a sales and marketing agreement for Europe.

Daiwa signs SONARIS/Bonds for four further years

Yesterday, Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe, a subsidiary of Daiwa Securities SMBC Co., an investment banking joint venture 60%-owned by Daiwa Securities Group and 40%-owned by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, signed an agreement with ORIMOS

Reuters expands evaluated pricing service

Reuters, an information company, has announced that its evaluated pricing service available on Reuters DataScope Select now releases bespoke valuations for IRS, CDS, CDX and CDS deals at premium and end of day time points.

ABP Investments goes live on Omgeo CTM

Omgeo, a post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider, announced last week that ABP Investments (ABP), a pension fund, has gone live on Omgeo central trade manager (Omgeo CTM).

LiquidityHub selects BT for hosting and connectivity

LiquidityHub, a consortium of investment banks in the fixed income markets for the aggregation of liquidity and market data in support of electronic trading, last week announced it has selected BT to provide connectivity and hosting services.

Q-WIXX launches with broad market support

Q-WIXX, an electronic platform for trading large portfolios of single- name credit default swaps (CDS), yesterday launched its automated service for the global market, with support from many market participants.