Degroof Petercam’s Philip Bille, head of buy-side dealing and market structure, and Pierre Renna, head of buy-side fixed income dealing, sit down with Claudia Preece to delve into the desk’s collaborative, multi-asset approach to execution across asset classes, focusing on its fixed income offering and highlighting the importance of championing ‘human touch’ and traditional market expertise in symbiosis with a forward-thinking, technology-driven attitude.
The new offering was developed in close collaboration with buy-side and sell-side firms, such as AllianceBernstein and BlackRock.
The collaboration will integrate LSEG’s Yield Book fixed income data and analytics into FINBOURNE’s LUSID platform and builds on the two firms’ existing partnership from 2021.
The two market infrastructures are set to offer clearing members the option to settle Italian government bonds and repos cleared at LCH SA directly in Euroclear Bank from 2026.
Institutional clients on Tradeweb’s Swap Execution Facility (SEF) can now request and receive a two-way market for swaps and swaptions in one single electronic quote via the new protocol.
The deal is set to close in H1 2026, subject to regulatory approval, and will see Marex onboarding 700 institutional clients onto its platform.
BlackRock and BNP Paribas executed the inaugural transaction on the platform; the launch is set to help support the growth of Saudi Arabian capital markets and boost global investor interest.
Natasha Cocksedge catches up with Ed Wood, fixed income trader at Ninety One, at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam, to explore liquidity management, the most impactful technological innovations, and what’s to come in 2026.
With the countdown to T+1 in Europe on, panellists speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam, considered how likely a subsequent move to instantaneous settlement is, and how the industry might get there.