Broadridge Financial Solutions has added Ted Bragg and Jim Kwiatkowski to the team at LTX, a Broadridge company offering a new AI-driven digital trading platform for corporate bonds.
More than three in five (61 per cent) of Swiss asset managers - including hedge and other fund managers, institutional investors and wealth advisers - plan to cut their exposure to bonds over the next year, according to new research( commissioned by Managing Partners Group (MPG), the Geneva-based international asset management group.
TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) is integrating the Glimpse Markets buy-side data sharing tool for fixed income into its multi-asset platform.
Joint Bookrunner and sole Green Coordinator Natixis has successfully placed the landmark Lion III Re DAC Notes Green Catastrophe Bond. The EUR200 million bond was well-received with a final pricing of 350 bps and was oversubscribed. The transaction is sponsored by Assicurazioni Generali SpA (Generali) and represents its first-ever green catastrophe bond.
LedgerEdge, an ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has selected Exactpro to deliver functional testing and ensure the resilience of its global corporate bond trading platform powered by distributed ledger technology.
FINCAD, a specialist in providing pricing, modelling, and risk analytics, has partnered with Fite Analytics, an innovator and provider of bond data and analytics solutions, to expand its derivatives analytics services with comprehensive fixed income data and insights.
Laurium Capital (Pty) Ltd (Laurium), one of South Africa’s leading hedge fund and long only fund managers has launched its first Irish-domiciled UCITS fund, the Laurium Africa USD Bond Fund, on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform.
TORA, a provider of trading technology, has integrated its order & execution management system (OEMS) with BondCliQ’s US corporate bond consolidated quote and trade data.
BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has launched Relative Value (RV) Curve spread trading, allowing clients to trade cash US Treasury benchmark spreads in a single order for the first time.
Last month the fear of inflation in the US economy reared its head. Yields on 1-year US Treasury securities bounced higher from a low of 5.6 basis points on 19 February to 8.9 basis points by close of play on 25 February. For 2-year Treasuries, they went from 10.9 basis points to 16.8 basis points.