Stephen Grady joins Lombard Odier Group
Trading veteran, Stephen Grady, has been named head of global markets and executive vice president at Lombard Odier Group, the Swiss private banking firm,...
Sara Furber appointed Tradeweb CFO
Market operator Tradeweb has appointed Sara Furber as its chief financial officer (CFO), effective from 7 September 2021. She succeeds Robert Warshaw, who will...
Overbond aims to increase fixed income automation
Overbond has introduced a margin optimization model for trading and incorporated voice data in its data as it looks to provide more interoperable artificial...
Goldman Sachs agrees to buy NNIP for €1.6 billion
Goldman Sachs has agreed to buy European asset manager NN Investment Partners from NN Group NV for €1.6bn, marking the biggest acquisition under CEO...
European Women in Finance Awards – nominations are still open!
We're aware that after last Summer - when, let's face it we were pretty limited in our vacation options - just about everyone is...
Electronic trading volume in US fixed income hits record
Electronic trading of US investment-grade and high-yield bonds reached an all-time high in July according to data from Coalition Greenwich.
Overall electronic trading accounted for...
Pimco says Fed’s new repo facility should ease future stress
Asset manager Pimco said the US Federal Reserve’s creation of a permanent standing repo facility (SRF) will help develop more resilient funding markets, although...
Is there value in fixed income TCA?
New research published by investment bank Barclays has suggested there is a limited use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools for purposes beyond regulatory...
ION LatentZero connected to UBS Bond Port for buy-side
Trading, analytics, and risk management system provider, ION Markets, has connected its LatentZero buy-side clients to the UBS Bond Port trading platform. Bond Port...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
Nobody wants responsibility for the US Treasuries market. We checked.
In 2014 The DESK approached every US financial regulator and authority to...
