Fixed Income
SocGen promotes two as it restructures
Sylvain Cartier heads to Paris as head of fixed income and currencies
European Ficc earnings bounce back in Q1, FX subdued
Nearly all banks saw quarterly Ficc income rise in double digits on increased client activity
Mosaic to bring real-time performance analytics to FX
Platform will be in production with a major client in third quarter
US bank Ficc revenues rebound in Q1
US banks saw triple-digit growth in Q1 compared with Q4, but Ficc revenues remained lower than a year ago
Cobalt hires fintech expert Wolff as strategic adviser
Hiring of Deutsche Bank veteran comes as Cobalt continues push for growth
Northern Trust promotes Arteta to head of Americas sales
Based in Chicago, Arteta brings a wealth of FX and fixed income experience to the role
SocGen offers won-hedged indexes for Korean autocall clients
Local currency benchmarks cut FX hedging costs for clients and boost yields, bank says
RBC Capital Markets hires Neal as US head of Ficc
Michelle Neal to exit BNY Mellon, join Canadian bank in June
Gunewardena joins CFTC’s market intelligence branch
Mel joins US regulator following years on buy and sell side in fixed income and FX
US banks’ Ficc revenues nosedive in Q4 2018
Biggest drops seen between third and fourth quarters last year
US banks’ Ficc earnings drop in Q3
Only Citi managed growth versus second quarter and Q3 2017
‘You can’t game the fix,’ jurors hear in FX Cartel trial
Melvin says if the three traders wanted to game the fix, they couldn’t have chosen a worse time because the market is too liquid then
Barclays hires two for Asian NDF trading team
Bengco and Parameswaran join the bank in Singapore
TransFicc secures Citi investment
Connectivity provider will join US bank’s innovation lab in London
US dealers see Q2 Ficc revenues dip
While second-quarter revenues did not match the performance of earlier this year, they were higher than in Q2 2017
FMSB publishes Ficc standards
The 12 core principles set out in the final standard outline expected conduct during new bond issuances
G10 FX revenues hit two-year highs – Coalition
The first quarter of 2018 saw a reversal of revenue contraction seen in the last two years, with profits up 20%
Ficc veteran Jeffery joins Mosaic as chairman
Jack Jeffery becomes chairman of data analytics company with over 35 years of experience in the financial markets
Ficc revenues bounce off lows but still down
European banks bounce off lows in Ficc revenues in the first quarter of the 2018, but year-on-year earnings remain negative
Currency movements helped US and Latam investors in 2017
A new report from Natixis shows a weaker dollar helped investors outperform their European peers
Sada-Paz to start at Barclays on July 2
Mauricio Sada-Paz quits Bank of America Merrill Lynch to become global head of e-Ficc at Barclays
Thomson Reuters launches bitcoin sentiment data feed
The tool appears in a new version of the firm’s MarketPsych Indices to assist trading and risk management
Bank G10 FX revenues at lowest since 2006 – Coalition
G10 FX revenues continued their decline in 2017 to levels not seen in more than a decade
Markets underpricing impact of tax reform, says BAML
“I think the market is not appreciating the risk of growth,” says David Woo, head of global rates and FX