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...                
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            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...                
                
            Trading protocols: The pros and cons of getting a two-way price in fixed income
                    
Getting a two-way price is unusual in fixed income trading, but normal in FX; that is changing and yielding some real results for best...                
                
            Why buy-side firms are building their own primary market tools
                    
Interoperability is not a competitive issue; clients will build it if platforms do not supply it.
There is not a consensus on who should make the bond...                
                
            Research reveals deep divisions in trading style set by AUM and geography
                    
Larger firms are able to take advantage of more bespoke trading opportunities, but location matters.
The DESK’s latest trading protocols research has found that the...                
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            Doing more with less: TS Imagine launches best execution compliance module
                    TS Imagine, a cross-asset provider of real-time trading, portfolio and risk management solutions, has rolled out a module within TradeSmart OEMS and TS One...                
                
            EMCA 2023 WINNER: Best Sell-side Fixed Income Trading Desk – Jefferies
                    
Jefferies stands out for commitment to clients and hands-on approach
Buy-side traders have chosen Jefferies as the “Best Sell-side Fixed Income Trading Desk” in this...                
                
            Technology: What large language models do to the trading desk
                    
LLMs are already adding value to trading teams.
The advent of Open AI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) tool has generated as many column inches...                
                
            














