Optimising clearing costs for cheaper trading
Clearing of European derivatives now looks set to stay in London for the foreseeable future, but traders still need to assess how the clearing...
Credit : Information overload : Dan Barnes
Dealer axes: Can’t see the wood for the trees
A proliferation of axes and inventories are making dealer data hard to consume by trading desks....
Derivatives: Buying the benchmark
By Fred Maple.
As ownership of fixed income indexes changes, buy-side traders are cautious of the impact. Fred Maple reports.
Three major purchases of fixed income...
European Markets Choice Award Winner: Best in AI – LTX
First mover advantage in a wave of change can be enormous, as LTX has demonstrated with BondGPT
Bond trading platform LTX has launched into an...
Why repo will not crash again
In December 2016 Europe’s repo markets crashed and burned. This year may look healthier than last but finding liquidity can still prove challenging. Lynn...
The DESK BENCHmark 2017: Mid-sized buy-side have diverse trading
Mid-sized asset managers champion electronic trading - The DESK’s BENCHmark research has found mid-sized firms use electronic trading and a wider range of brokers than...
Derivatives : Exchange-traded products : Joel Clark
Why listed derivatives struggle to address risk
Some traders have been critical of listed products designed to replicate OTC derivatives, but exchanges are working hard...
Securities financing: SFTR threatens smaller players
By Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The delay to the regulation gives market participants more breathing room but they should not get too comfortable. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks...
Rates: The risk of weighting sovereign debt
By David Wigan.
Sweden’s sovereign move has fired a risk weight debate. David Wigan reports.
One of the lessons of recent European economic history is that...
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...
