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Integral: FX centralisation and AI to accelerate API adoption

Banks are increasingly centralising FX operations to cut costs, improve risk management and capture more trading revenue says ...
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Liquidity improves amid $1 trillion surge in corporate debt

Corporates issued around $1 trillion of new debt in 2026, according to S&P Global iBoxx data, and rather than straining the secondary market the supply has coincided with tighter bid-ask ...
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Tag: Eric Morrow

Eric Morrow has been named chief operations officer (COO) of trading at Apollo Global Management, an asset manager with US$550 billion of assets under ...
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Nery joins JPM AM

Nelson Nery has left Northern Trust Asset Management to join JP Morgan Asset Management as a portfolio manager within the ...
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Weakening dollar plays havoc with sovereign bond values

In August 2026, the dollar value of Korea treasury bonds increased by US$51.8bn. But only US$13.41bn of that was new issuance. The rest was FX impact. Three Korean treasury bonds ...
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Trade Tech FX: Digital assets, data intelligence and the rise of smarter execution

Trader TV catches up with leading market participants and organisers at this year’s TradeTech FX in Amsterdam, hosted by ...
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GIC Strives to Build Long-Term Trading Partnerships

GIC is one of the three investment entities in Singapore that manage Singapore's reserves, along with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Temasek. GIC manages an estimated $1.18 trillion ...
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TTFX: Poor datasets make decisions a challenge

Trading is an information game, and the amount of information available to the market is constantly increasing. At TradeTech FX Europe, the importance of data was a key theme. Determining ...
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Sense Street, S&P partner on issuance automation

Sense Street has partnered with S&P Global Market Intelligence to improve automation in the primary bond markets. Sense Street takes unstructured chat communications between sales traders and ...
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AbbVie issues US$10 billion to fund Apogee acquisition

American pharmaceutical research and development firm AbbVie issued US$10 billion in bonds during August. Split across nine tranches, net proceeds from the notes are expected to be used to fund cash ...
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RBC CM appoints Connor

Jonathan Connor has joined RBC Capital Markets as a euro investment grade (IG) corporate bond trader. He is based in London and reports to Europe head of IG cash credit trading Francesca Lynch RBC ...
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Mediolanum taps Tapley

Stephen Tapley has joined Mediolanum International – Ireland as deputy head of high yield. He is based in Dublin. Martin Reeves has been head of high yield at the firm since January. Mediolanum ...