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Tech, not tape, needed to harness fixed income data
Asset managers' lives could be made easier if they had access to a high quality source of fixed income data – and the technology...
Sam Knight named director of global e-trading at Fidelity International
Sam Knight, a senior trader at Fidelity International, has been made director of global e-trading. His promotion takes him to director level, less than...
Exclusive: TS Imagine connects with TDS Automated Trading for muni market-making
Trading systems provider, TS Imagine, has connected to municipal bond market maker TDS Automated Trading (TDSAT), through its TradeSmart Fixed Income execution management system...
Credit Spotlight: How clear can pre-trade get?
Pre-trade transparency is a nirvana for over-the-counter markets, particularly corporate bond trading, which lack the publicly displayed prices of the exchange-traded market.
Unless it...
Janus Henderson to acquire Tabula Investment Management
Janus Henderson to acquire Tabula Investment Management, an independent ETF provider in Europe with a focus on fixed income and sustainable investment solutions.
The deal,...
BBVA shares Sabadell merger proposal
BBVA has shared details of its merger proposal with Sabadell, a partnership that would see the consolidation of two of Spain’s biggest banks.
The proposal...
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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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ECB corporate bond programme winding down?
ECB corporate bond programme winding down?
Deutsche Bank analysts have noted indications that the European Central Bank (ECB) is winding down its Corporate Sector Purchase...
Invesco global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz departs for Adroit
Invesco’s global head of fixed income trading, Glenn Taitz, has left the firm to take up the position of head of business operations at...
TP ICAP focuses on low-touch trading, Liquidnet and buy-side data provision
Interdealer broker and trading services provider TP ICAP outlined its future plans at its Capital Markets Day on Tuesday 1 December, to develop low...
The Agency Broker Hub | An open gateway into financial markets
By Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, Head of Market Hub, and Barbara Valbuzzi, CFA, Head of Market Strategy, IMI CIB Division, Intesa Sanpaolo.
In recent years the sellside...
Derivatives desks at the crossroads
Having full access to derivatives gives a trading desk greater flexibility, but heads of trading need to assess the operational burden. Francesca Carnevale and...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
Nasdaq reports seven-year error in closing auction
Story updated 16.00 BST 30/8/18
In a Trader Alert published at 08.30 ET, on 30 August 2018, updating a previous notice published on Friday 24...
State Street introduces buy-side to buy-side repo programme
State Street has launched a new peer-to-peer repo programme for the buy side. Building out from its sponsored repo and securities lending model, including...
Risk of fiscal crisis in US from growing federal debt
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that if current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal...
Australia’s State Super taps Premialab for portfolio and risk management platform
Australian super fund State Super has tapped data, analytics and risk solutions provider Premialab for its portfolio management and risk solutions.
Premialab, which officially enters...
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...
Karen Karniol-Tambour named co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater
Nir Bar Dea, co-chief executive officer at Bridgewater has confirmed that Karen Karniol-Tambour is now co-chief investment officer of the firm, joining Bob Prince...
