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More EM platform consolidation amid liquidity challenges

More EM platform consolidation amid liquidity challenges

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Emerging markets have offered a strong opportunity for yield in recent years, albeit with greater credit risk and FX volatility, however getting access to markets...
The trouble with Treasuries

The trouble with Treasuries

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The DESK asks Susan Estes, CEO, OpenDoor Trading LLC., for her insights into the US Treasuries market. How would you describe the depth and width...
“There is still an edge in systematic trading”

“There is still an edge in systematic trading”

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Systematic trading is often associated with highly liquid instruments, but asset managers have outlined success stories in less liquid debt markets, at the Fixed...
Municipal bond traders push for better execution

Municipal bond traders push for better execution

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A standardised framework of processes could emerge from platform providers and regulators to support electronification. In a market without infrastructure, common standards of behaviour and...
FILS EU 2025: Traders need to take control of their future

FILS EU 2025: Traders need to take control of their future

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While the European and UK consolidated tape fiascos are dominating gossip around the Fixed income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam, other big themes are clearly...
EXCLUSIVE: abrdn’s automation journey sees no-touch jump

EXCLUSIVE: abrdn’s automation journey sees no-touch jump

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Louise Drummond, global head of investment execution at abrdn, discusses the firm’s path towards workflow automation – an achievement that has been almost a...
Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure

Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure

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As new platforms promise to increase efficiency in bond issuance, buy-side firms are looking for leverage to drive change, and not only through technology. The...
Dean Berry to lead MarketAxess EMEA and APAC

Dean Berry to lead MarketAxess EMEA and APAC

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MarketAxess has named Dean Berry as group CEO and chief operating officer for the EMEA and APAC regions, effective Q4 2025. He replaces Christophe Roupie,...
Trading: Are bond markets broken?

Trading: Are bond markets broken?

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Stressed events – like the gilt market turmoil – are proving too much for the secondary markets to handle. Behind closed doors, senior traders are...
Aegon AM: Bond market liquidity fears ‘overblown’

Aegon AM: Bond market liquidity fears ‘overblown’

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Fears over a potential liquidity crisis in the corporate bond market are “significantly overblown”, according to Adrian Hull, head of core fixed income at...
AXA IM appoints Yannig Loyer as global head of trading

AXA IM appoints Yannig Loyer as global head of trading

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AXA Investment Managers has appointed Yannig Loyer as global head of trading. In a statement the firm observed this is a “key role given...
Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor

Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor

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Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematical Finance, joins as Scientific Advisor London, June 2019: Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has...