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ICAP Information Services launches the ICAP Bond Correlated Call US Treasury Index
February 3rd, 2015
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that ICAP Information Services (IIS), the information division of ICAP, has launched the ICAP Bond Correlated Call (BCC) US Treasury ...
Investors Pour Record Amount Into European High-Yield Bond Funds
February 3rd, 2015
Over €1 billion Moved Into European High-Yield Bond Funds in Week Ending Jan. 28. Mario Draghi plans to get Europe’s economy up and running, but he has also sent investors stampeding into riskier corners of the region’s bond market. Investors ...
OpenBondX released on plans to improve electronic bond trading
January 28th, 2015
OpenBondX, a fully electronic fixed income alternative trading system (ATS), issued a press release on: New ATS OpenBondX Transforms Electronic Fixed Income Markets with “All-to-All” System and Hybrid Trading Protocol Transparent pricing, fair and equal access to all parties ...
Global Accountancy Body welcomes ECB’s Bond – Buying initiative
January 23rd, 2015
ACCA welcomes the launch by the European Central Bank (ECB)‘s of an expanded asset purchase programme, entailing the existing purchase programmes for asset-backed securities and covered bonds. As from March 2015, the Eurosystem will start to purchase euro-denominated investment-grade ...
What Draghi’s Bond Buying in Europe Means for U.S. Debt Markets
January 23rd, 2015
The European Central Bank’s resolve to funnel more than a trillion dollars into the region’s capital markets may be a boon for borrowers across the Atlantic. ECB President Mario Draghi unveiled a bond-purchase program to ward off signs of ...
ECB Executive Board’s QE Proposal Calls for Roughly €50 Billion in Bond Buys Per Month
January 22nd, 2015
The European Central Bank’s executive board proposed buying roughly €50 billion ($58 billion) a month in bonds for at least a year, according to people familiar with the matter, but markets largely shrugged as investors pondered whether the ECB ...
Bonds, shares, gold supported ahead of expected ECB action
January 21st, 2015
European shares held close to a seven-year high on Wednesday and Asian shares hit a six-week peak investors bet the European Central Bank would unveil a stimulus drive to boost the flagging euro zone economy. Expectations that the ECB ...
Asian Stocks Slide With U.S. Futures, Bonds Climb on SNB
January 16th, 2015
Asian shares dropped with U.S. index futures as the market turmoil sparked by Switzerland abandoning the franc’s cap extended into a second day. Sovereign bonds rallied and gold traded near a four-month high. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 0.6 percent ...
EU legal advisor supports ECB’s bond purchase plan
January 15th, 2015
EU Advocate General Cruz Villalon on Wednesday gave legal support to the European Central Bank (ECB) plan to purchase government bonds as an attempt to remedy the financial crisis in the Eurozone. The Outright Monetary Transactions program sets economic ...
Is the ECB allowed to buy sovereign bonds?
January 13th, 2015
The European Court of Justice is looking into whether the ECB’s plan to buy sovereign bonds is really within its mandate. Experts expect the central bank to start its program soon, in a bid to head off deflation. “The ...
