On The DESK: Putting trading at the head of the table
Frans de Wit’s elevated role as head of trading at PGGM Investment Management will help improve execution quality and trading efficiency for end investors.
What has...
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...
Research: Analytics use in trading workflow increases by 72% over three years
Effectiveness for reporting and desk performance assessment improves year-on-year.
The DESK’s latest research into trading analytics has found its use growing within the trading workflow,...
Hold the phone!
Craig McLeod, Co-Head of EM, MarketAxess explains why Request for Market is electrifying emerging markets trading. This article all about data and why, as...
Industry viewpoint : SIX Swiss Exchange : Frédéric Messein
Better interdealer execution generates natural liquidity
Banks’ reticence to trade with clients is a consequence of the cost of carrying risk; SIX Corporate Bonds de-risks...
Tradeweb’s access to Bond Connect: A game changer for electronic trading in Asia
When you open up a market to a broader range of customers, you need to ensure the infrastructure is robust and efficient, with new...
Knowing the lifetime cost of a derivatives trade
A partnership between Cassini Systems and IHS Markit is enabling investment firms to build a deeper understanding of their derivatives trading costs into pre-trade...
Lead : BENCHmark Survey 2018
The DESK BENCHmark: Volumes down, efficiency up.
Fewer traders are managing greater volumes of trading in rates, while the volume of electronic trading is increasing...
Technology: The competitive edge for a fixed income OMS
To better support alpha generation buy-side firms need to overcome any inertia created by legacy front office technology, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds.
Cost has always...
The credit futures market
By Andreas McGrath, Fixed Income ETF Trader, Susquehanna International Group
How did Susquehanna become involved in this market?
When Eurex first approached Susquehanna in 2021...














