On the Desk: Engineering better trading
Honing the trading function is an art; it requires an engineer’s eye for improving systems but a leader’s eye for putting the team first.
How...
The hidden liquidity in IBHY and IBIG futures
Real-money asset managers are finding that Cboe’s cash-settled corporate bond index futures – IBHY and IBIG futures – allow them to track ETFs in...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Michael Richter on futures TCA
S&P Global: Looking to the future with its new TCA tool
S&P Global has provided sophisticated best execution and TCA tools since 2011 across a...
Getting better liquidity through efficient trading
Several new and evolving trends are providing access to pricing and liquidity for buy-side firms, as Olivier Cajfinger, managing director and head of global...
The time has come for digital adoption in the corporate bond markets
By David Nicol, CEO LedgerEdge.
The corporate bond market is critically important – it allows companies to raise capital, pension funds to meet obligations, and...
Effecting change without disruption
LSEG has built a suite of services that can be used with minimal friction and maximise the capacity to trade effectively.
As clients face a...
Erste Group: Adding valued regional trading expertise to your execution capabilities
Erste Group as regional market maker and primary dealer for the Central & Eastern European market is supporting electronic trading and regional expertise for both...
Traders adopt automated workflows as eTrading expands from swaps into credit
In March TransFICC launched its eTrading service for interest rate swap (IRS) trading. We speak with Steve Toland, co-founder of TransFICC, about client adoption,...
How banks slash the cost of managing market fragmentation
A smart application of hardware, cloud and open source technology makes for efficient trading systems. The complexity of the fixed income market should not...
Key trends in fixed income trading
By Matt Murphy, T. Rowe Price & Venky Vemparala, FlexTrade
As fixed income trading desks cope with multiple trading protocols, venues, and vast data sets...
