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Again a holiday thinned week which will likely see more action after the Monday European holiday. However the economic figures coming out of the US in particular are better than expected leading to a weakening of the US$ but higher stocks; as the market reassesses its pessimistic companies earnings. The figures later in the week […]

Yields… yields… yields.

The market is still watching longer-term US Treasury yields. The 10-year rate continued climbing to new highs for the year; reflecting rising confidence in the broader economic outlook as inflation expectations are driven higher. Fed Chair Jerome Powell also appeared to be rather indifferent to the rally in the bond markets. The US Dollar mostly outperformed its […]

Eiger welcomes Steve Moulder to its Board of Directors

London Eiger Trading Advisors Limited (‘Eiger’ or the ‘Company’), a leading financial technology company specialising in commodity facilitation services, announced the appointment of Steve Moulder to its Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director, effective 15th March 2021. “Steve’s background and skillset is ideally suited to support Eiger’s focus on strong future growth as we […]

Yield Rally Drives All Markets

Investors continued to flee bonds and snap up commodities on hopes the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines will reinvigorate the global economy, sending stocks lower at the beginning of the week.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury rose as high as 1.39%, after rising 14.5 basis points last week.The yield on the 10-year U.K. gilt  and […]

Eiger adopted a new digital solution by Connectif Technologies Connectif Technologies

Connectif announced that Eiger Trading Advisors, the market leading, UK FCA regulated FinTech firm specialising in brokerage and trade facilitation services for the Islamic financial market, has signed as a client to use its platform, iWAVE. iWAVE provides access and connectivity to all Islamic finance market participants in one place, via a central, secure, digital […]

COVID-19: An Opportunity for the Islamic Digital Economy

Written by Gareth Lewis – Associate Director of Product With countless articles already published about how the world will be changed during and after the pandemic, the challenges that our industry now faces are well documented. Bitten by COVID-19 like the rest of the world, our $2.4 trillion industry — composed of roughly 1,400 institutions spread across […]

An interview with Eiger CEO Stephen Openshaw and Islamic Finance News

Could you provide some background to your experience within the Islamic markets? I have been involved with the Middle East banking sector since 1977, moving to Bahrain in 1981. I joined Man Group Islamic desk in 2004, whose team then joined Eiger Trading Advisors in July 2009, to set up its commodity Murabaha business.  As […]