To celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) 2024, The TRADE sits down with managing director, head of eSales and digital transformation EMEA at Mizuho, Lu Fu, to unpack market moves, including the impact of digitisation on how desks are evolving, and outlooks on what trading floors might look like in the future.
Amidst plans for the new EU offering, the bank is continuing with the closure of its offices in Brussels, Dusseldorf, Milan, and Vienna.
As the buy-side increasingly seek higher quality and comprehensive data, providers are answering the call, focused on enhancing their services and increasing their scope.
SEC and CFTC hand out penalties to BNP Paribas, BMO Capital Markets and Wells Fargo among others.
The move comes as the buy-side are increasingly seeking higher quality data from liquidity providers; Mizuho will distribute axes for investment grade and high yield corporate credit.
A panel hosted by Overbond highlights the inevitability of automation in the bond market and the need to adapt existing workflows.
The past week saw appointments from Credit Suisse and BTIG, along with departures from LSEG, Winterflood Securities and Mizuho.
Traders from HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, Credit Agricole and NatWest Markets have joined Mizuho throughout September and October.
Bob Wright began his career at Merrill Lynch in the 1990s, and will lead execution sales and trading in the US for Mizuho in new role.
Slava Slavinsky will lead investment banking in EMEA at Mizuho in a newly created position.