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Pre-fight analysis: The weigh-in for CME vs FMX
The launch of FMX, the derivatives exchange chaired by Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker and services provider BGC Group, sets out a potentially...
Top tips from TradeTech: Connect debt, derivatives and equity trading
Buy-side traders have observed that close ties in the trading team based on the targets on an investment – be that corporate or government...
Interactive Brokers extends trading hours for US Treasuries
Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, has expanded trading hours for US Treasury bonds on its platform, allowing the firm’s global clients to...
Tradeweb names Carsten Just director
Carsten Just has joined Tradeweb as director, after a short stint as a contractor with the firm.
Just has held a number of roles in...
Sterling expands to cover fixed income securities
Order management, risk and margin technology provider Sterling Trading Tech will support fixed income securities by the end of Q2 2024, it has announced.
This...
Bloomberg facilitates European government bonds electronic list trade
Bloomberg has executed the first electronic list trade in European government bonds though its multilateral trading facility (MTF), with its evaluated pricing service (BVAL)...
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Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
Buy side hails positive development of STP for bond issuance
Risk warning lights flashing on buy-side trading desks could be assuaged thanks to industry collaboration on primary markets.
It seems incongruous that the 50-year old...
Balancing short and long term liquidity provision
Best execution on a trade-by-trade basis is too simplistic a measure of liquidity provision; The DESK looks at best practice for longer term liquidity...
The Tenth Annual Trading Intentions Survey
Key parts of bond market electronification are still up for contention, with stiff competition across pre-trade, primary and secondary market services.
In 2024 The DESK...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
Systematic, hydromatic; can credit get as fast as greased lightning?
Some investment firms have claimed they can fully systematise credit trading by 2025, The DESK investigates.
Investment managers and banks are rapidly adopting systematic approaches...
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The Tenth Annual Trading Intentions Survey
Key parts of bond market electronification are still up for contention, with stiff competition across pre-trade, primary and secondary market services.
In 2024 The DESK...
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The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : Profiles
Bloomberg
Bloomberg has the highest penetration of any provider into the buy-side fixed income trading desk. This year has seen it significantly revise charges to...
Barnes on Bonds: Secondary Gilt Trip
To look at the whipsaw effect of the UK’s 23 September mini-budget on secondary UK bond trading, we have taken data from MarketAxess TraX,...
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be...
Lisa Opoku joins Tradeweb board
Tradeweb Markets has appointed Lisa Opoku to its board of directors, effective 7 March 2024. Opoku has more than 30 years of industry experience,...
AFME welcomes political agreement over CSDR mandatory buy-in
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has welcomed political agreement regarding the European Union's refit of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR)....
The DESK Research: Which trading protocols are buy-side firms using?
Primary research finds a distinct break between trading for active and passive portfolios across non-comp trading and auto-execution.
The DESK surveyed 30 buy-side trading...
FCA proposes consolidated bond tape and tightens trading venue perimeter rules
A series of measures to help strengthen the UK’s leading position as a global and vibrant financial centre have been announced by The Financial...
Linedata : Managing operations to thrive in 2021
By Ed Gouldstone, Global Head of Research & Development, Linedata Asset Management.
The word unprecedented may have been overused in 2020, but there is no...
Dealers struggle to unpick impact of runs sent to rivals
Sell-side firms say that analysis of the accidental distribution of dealer runs, which happened on 4 December via Bloomberg’s Message service, is proving challenging....
Can primary markets deflate?
Inflation levels could have a direct impact on volume of work – and therefore operational pressure – on buy-side trading desks.
Managing the process of...
CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe to close by year end
CME Group is to close its London-based derivatives exchange and clearing house, CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe, by year-end 2017. The announcement follows Nasdaq...
RBC names Michael Mullholland director of leveraged credit sales
RBC has named Michael Mulholland director of leveraged credit sales, based in London.
Mulholland joins from UBS, where he was part of the firm’s leveraged...
