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Banks quiet on Libor legacy transition, say Asian clients

By Narayanan Somasundaram
May 30, 2019, Risk

Asian firms say there has been minimal engagement from dealers about the transition of their investments, debt and hedges off the Libor family …

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Goldman Says Bond Market Doesn’t React as It Used to in Risk-Off

Christian Mueller-Glissmann, managing director of portfolio strategy at Goldman Sachs, explains why he is “underweight” bonds and discusses Federal Reserve policy. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”…

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Bond Market Liquidity. The Silver Bullet

By Kurt Dew, Northeastern University
Originally published on the TABBFORUM

The bond is a security that claims the impossible – to serve simultaneously two masters at odds with each other: …

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Technical issue sees ESMA delay crucial MiFID II systematic internalizer data

By Hayley McDowell
May 1, 2019, The Trade

A technical issue has forced the E.U. financial regulator to delay the publication of crucial data for systematic internalizer (SI) determination that …

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How MiFID has made its mark in the U.S.

By Richard Henderson
May 6, 2019, Financial Times

The launch of MiFID II represented Europe’s biggest shake-up in the relationship between banks and investors in a generation. Now an unusual …

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Bankers Jostling for Deals May Weaken Bondholder Safeguards

By Laura Benitez
April 12, 2019, Bloomberg

Competition among bankers to win mandates in Europe’s leveraged finance market will get fiercer this year, raising the prospects of more deals with …

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Brokers ‘Clinging On’ Amid Weak Research Spending

By David Ricketts
April 9, 2019, Financial News

It is more than a year since sweeping changes were waved in under Europe’s landmark Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, and …

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As China Bonds Go Global, Dealers Size Up Demand for Swaps

By Chris Davis
April 2, 2019, Risk

The inclusion of onshore China bonds in global fixed income indexes is expected to provide a boost to the country’s still embryonic interest …

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Use-Cases for MiFID II Data Prove Elusive

By Natasha Rega-Jones
March 27, 2019, Risk

If Jerome Sabah had his way, any time a client changed their trading patterns, he would get a tap on the shoulder, so …

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Banks: No Single Best Practice for MiFID II Allocation Rationales

March 27, 2019, Practice Insight from IFLR

No single best practice for allocation justifications has emerged in primary bond markets, banks have told Practice Insight.

The consensus is that banks …

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