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Glimpse Markets goes live
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing service, is officially live with a group of global asset managers sharing post-trade bond data with one another...
FILS USA 2022: Leveraging technology to greater effect
The audience at FILS USA got an in-depth insight into optimising front office technology on Thursday, with a detailed analysis of how desktop interoperability...
FILS USA 2022: Beyond RFQ?
Fixed income trading is well beyond the request for quote (RFQ)-only era, i.e. when the only way for a trader to find the other...
FILS USA 2022: News you may have missed this week
Treasury launches new effort to improve resilience of its market
The US Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury...
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed.
While technology has greatly advanced the...
FILS USA 2022: Finding trader 2.0
Getting the next generation of traders to have the right skills and capabilities, without losing the existing market knowledge, requires traders to be multi-faceted,...
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Better numbers: How desks can improve their data skills
As data use becomes more prevalent, trading desks need to introduce new skills on the desk either through training or new team members.
Twenty years...
The big shocks hitting portfolios in 2022
Portfolio managers have some very large events to consider, along with many more nuanced side-effects.
At the beginning of the year, rising inflation and interest...
The Trading Intentions Survey 2022
New platforms and late bloomers are all seeing greater interest.
This year buy-side desks have a renewed vigour for investing in trading tools, with far...
What traders need to know about inflation and volatility
Significant rises in inflation have not been seen within the careers of many traders – this is what they need to know.
As inflation increases,...
On The DESK: Tobi Molko, Bridgewater Associates
Talent acquisition, automation and the protection of trade data in the year ahead are key priorities for Tobi Molko, head of trading execution at...
Keeping the doors open
Erika Bianco, Senior Marketing & Communications Manager, EMEA & APAC at MarketAxess and Camille McKelvey, Head of Post Trade STP Business Development at MarketAxess talk...
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Credit Market Structure Alliance: The real market agenda
The CMSA, invitation-only event, is setting an agenda based on market professionals’ concerns, and has captured a groundswell of interest.
The DESK: What has been...
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Liquidnet reports 57% jump in bond liquidity during volatile markets
Liquidnet has reported that the recent volatility led to an increase in bond trading volumes on the all-to-all block trading platform.
“In the last six...
SEC creates unit to tackle emerging risks
The Securities and Exchange Commission has created the Event and Emerging Risks Examination Team (EERT) in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)....
Coalition Greenwich: Asian bond markets see electronic trading adoption accelerate
New analysis by research firm Coalition Greenwich has found that, while much of the e-trading growth in Asia to date has come via relatively...
FILS 2021: AxeTrading integrates ICE pricing and analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software company, has demonstrated the integration of ICE’s leading pricing, analytics and market data into the AxeTrader Quoting and...
US unbundling does not impose fiduciary execution rules on dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
US banks are able to unbundle trade execution and research payments without incurring fiduciary responsibility for trade execution. Following a lengthy process...
April saw European bond volume dip
Data from MarketAxess has indicated that trading across bond markets in Europe dipped in April, with European sovereign trading volumes dropping after a period...
Industry viewpoint: How to build a better picture of the global fixed income markets
Guido Galassi, Head of Data & Cash Product, MTS
In volatile market conditions, more accessible and meaningful data has become critical to navigating the path...
Are ‘People’ Worried About Inflation?
By Jonathan Rick Director of Research, Tradeweb.
Headline inflation in the U.S. hit 4.2% annualized in April, a level we’ve not seen since 2008. The...
CurveGlobal saw 194% volume rise YoY in February
By Pia Hecher.
CurveGlobal has claimed a record start to 2019, with monthly average trading up 194% in February over the same month in 2017....
Tradeweb processes first electronic iBoxx standardised total return swap trade
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has completed the first-ever fully electronic standardized total return swap trade based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx USD Liquid High...
Delivering a liquid market for NGEU bonds, Angelo Proni, MTS
Q&A with Angelo Proni, Head of New and Domestic Markets, MTS
Why is the NGEU initiative important for Europe?
On 21 July 2020, EU leaders agreed to...
Does the value-add of data justify the cost to bond traders?
A new report from analyst firm Aite-Novartica has found nearly a third of bond market participants and traders believe it is hard to justify...
