FICC Focus

FICC Focus

Bloomberg Intelligence

Episodes 567
Avg. Duration 36m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (32)
Since Oct 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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FICC Focus offers the latest market views on interest rates, corporate bonds, emerging market debt, commodities, and currencies by Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.

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State of Distressed Debt: Ellias on Reorganizations’ Global Bazaar

Jun 12, 2026 1h 36m

“If there’s kind of a squeamishness about forum shopping in the US, there’s a little...it’s just overseas, there’s none at all,” observed Harvard Law Professor Jared Ellias. “There’s a great deal of…

Macro Matters: JPMorgan’s Misra on Rates, Credit and Warsh Fed

Jun 11, 2026 28m

JPMorgan Asset Management sees a resilient economy facing multiple supply shocks, with inflation still largely supply-led and the Federal Reserve likely to remain on hold for now. Priya Misra,…

Credit Crunch: AI IPOs, Tech Supply and Credit Without Peace

Jun 10, 2026 52m

Credit continues to rally despite the lack of a US-Iran peace deal, and it has served as a safe haven relative to rates. In this Credit Crunch podcast, host Mahesh Bhimalingam, global head of credit…

EM Lens: Extracting the Complexity Premium in Emerging Markets

Jun 05, 2026 21m

Emerging markets are becoming a strategic focus for creditors looking to extract the complexity premium embedded in local markets. Atanas Bostandjiev, chairman and founder of Gemcorp Capital…

Macro Matters: Lazard’s Van Nostrand on Supply-Shock Investing

Jun 04, 2026 22m

Supply shocks, inflation risks and AI are reshaping the investment landscape, a theme that Lazard’s Chief Investment Officer Eric Van Nostrand discusses with Ira Jersey on this Macro Matters edition…

FX Moment: Euro-Dollar 2H Outlook Has Become Binary

Jun 03, 2026 20m

Recent euro-dollar price action has validated structural euro-dollar bulls, with the case for diversification strategies beyond the dollar still holding as we look to 2H and 2027. Yet this view is…

State of Distressed Debt: Ensis’ Shinder on Middle-Market Workouts

May 29, 2026 31m

“There’s such an informational asymmetry between incumbent investors — the direct lenders who are in the deal and the sponsor — and new parties that it can be harder to bridge that bid-ask,” said…

Macro Matters: Morgan Stanley’s Hornbach on Oil and Global Rates

May 28, 2026 26m

Oil prices have become the key driver of global rates markets as conflict in the Middle East reshapes inflation expectations and policy outlooks. Matt Hornbach, Morgan Stanley’s global head of macro…

EM Lens: Dispersion Creates Cleaner Entry Points in EM Debt

May 27, 2026 36m

Dispersion is rising across emerging markets, reflecting differences in external balances, policy flexibility and economic proximity to the war in Iran. Pablo Goldberg, EM fixed income portfolio…

State of Distressed Debt: Judge Kaplan on Bankruptcy Mediation, Venue

May 25, 2026 28m

“I’ve been shocked by the attention the issue as far as my mediating cases that are before me has gotten because in my view it’s just a label,” US Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said, addressing the…

State of Distressed: Mudrick on the Post-LME Maturity Wall

May 22, 2026 26m

“You have a refinancing problem; that’s the dynamic that we’re in today. With the covenant-lite nature of the loan market, most of these better-quality businesses can orchestrate an extension one…

Macro Matters: DWS’ Catrambone on Long-End Selloff, Warsh Fed

May 21, 2026 22m

Rising Treasury yields, war-driven inflation concerns and uncertainty over the Federal Reserve are reshaping the fixed-income outlook. George Catrambone, head of fixed income for the Americas at DWS…

Credit Crunch: TCW’s Miller on Rescue Capital and Direct Lending

May 18, 2026 1h 2m

“The key to longevity in lending is really avoiding principal loss, minimizing principal loss,” says Richard Miller, chief investment officer of TCW’s Private Credit Group. Reduced distress has led…

EM Lens: Developing a Defensive Response to the Mideast Crisis

May 15, 2026 23m

Heightened geopolitical risk is driving asset price fluctuations, as inflation and interest rate uncertainty demands increased focus on risk management and liquidity. Andrew Jackson, head of…

State of Distressed: Trucano on Distressed Investing’s Evolution

May 15, 2026 1h 56m

“In the past, I think a lot of times [sponsors] just handed the keys over if they were hopelessly insolvent,” industry veteran David Trucano says. “Now [the market has] basically written, through…

Macro Matters: NISA Investments’ Douglass on Fed, Fiscal Outlook

May 14, 2026 24m

Stephen Douglass, chief economist and a member of NISA Investment Advisors’ global investment committee, explains why he still sees the US economy as broadly consistent with a soft-landing path once…

Credit Crunch: UK Crisis, Private and Middle-Market Credit

May 13, 2026 45m

The UK is at the forefront of market headlines amid a political crisis and record gilt yields. In this episode of the Credit Crunch podcast, host Mahesh Bhimalingam, Bloomberg Intelligence’s global…

FX Moment: Sterling, UK Politics; What Can Take Dollar-Yen Lower

May 12, 2026 32m

In this episode of FX Moment, Bloomberg Intelligence Chief FX Strategist Audrey Childe-Freeman and Jordan Rochester, head of FICC strategy for EMEA at Mizuho Bank, discuss how the evolving UK…

Macro Matters: BI’s Ira Jersey Talks Fed & US Rates Outlook

May 07, 2026 11m

Bloomberg Intelligence’s chief US interest-rate strategist Ira Jersey lays out his latest views on the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury market in this solo Macro Matters edition of the FICC Focus…

Credit Crunch: Shorecliff’s Nachman on Market, Managing Growth

May 04, 2026 1h 3m

“We always want to be big enough in any given strategy that we’re relevant to the market, relevant to our counterparties,” says Grant Nachman, Shorecliff Asset Management’s CIO and CEO. “But we…

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