Corporate bonds
Don’t keep up with the Kardashians
Dealers may have gifted the buy side an information edge
Pricing in the dark: how dealers lost their information edge
Asset managers may have an information advantage over dealers in bond pricing
SEC’s White ‘deeply concerned’ about bond market illiquidity
Agency to publish report on regulation and market liquidity in May 2017
Brokers woo new clients, try not to upset old ones
Broker rankings 2016: Swaps market still bifurcated, but boundaries are blurring
Opened interest: foreign firms eye China's rate swap market
However regulatory and operational challenges set to slow growth
MarketAxess to offer cut-price dark pool liquidity
High-yield bond block trades could be 100bp cheaper on new platform, says executive
Buy side is the barrier to all-to-all credit trading, says AB chief
Switzer calls current pre-trade transparency technology "awful"
Interdealer brokers embrace buy side as bank dominance slips
Tradeweb considers integrating interdealer and client liquidity pools
Basel plans modelling curb for billions in credit RWAs
Proposals clamp down on IRB approach that is “usually gamed pretty easily”, says FDIC’s Hoenig
Volcker rule didn't dry corporate bond liquidity, research says
When banks closed prop desks, market liquidity improved, academics claim
Crossover bonds biggest risk for large hedge funds
eVestment analysis shows exposure to top 10 risk factors
Thin liquidity makes human touch vital – credit buy-siders
Reliance on e-trading risks being 'left out in the cold' when markets dry up
Dark pools and platforms vie to fix credit markets
A side-effect of tough bank capital rules could be the rise of dark pools for credit trading
Electronic trading of corporate bonds still work in progress
Industry members discuss the growth of electronic trading of corporate bonds
Hong Kong-Shanghai stock connect: believe the hype
Corporate bond and commodity derivative sectors are the prize
Questions over event driven activists adding value
But strategy among highest returns this year
Dealers charging FVA on collateralised swaps
If collateral cannot easily be repoed, dealers say funding charge should apply
Options cutting costs for some cross-currency swaps
Dealers found a way to protect some cross-currency swaps from heavy new capital requirements last year, by adding foreign exchange options into the structure – but the powers of the technique are limited. Matt Cameron reports
What's the difference between issuers and borrowers?
Look beyond loans
The great unwind: Buy-side fears impact of market-making constraints
Some buy-side firms are already calling it the great unwind – the migration out of the huge bond portfolios buy-side firms have built up in recent years, as rates eventually rise. But with dealers less able to play the role of liquidity provider, it…
Finex launches first Russia corporate bond ETF
Finex notches up industry first with LSE listing of ETF linked to Russian corporate debt
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