FILS USA 2022: The big investment and macro trends
The Federal Reserve loomed large over the FILS conference last week. Any discussions about the difference a trading desk can make had to clearly...
FILS USA 2022: Where ESG fits in fixed income
Environmental, social and governance is expanding its reach in fixed income markets, though there remain concerns about standardization and data quality.
Speakers on the Friday...
FILS USA 2022: Boosting automation and innovation
The attention of buy-side portfolio managers and traders at the FILS conference in Nashville last week was focused on ways to better manage inefficiency...
FILS USA 2022: Scaramucci bullish on digital assets
The recent decline in digital assets is a temporary setback amid a very bullish long-term outlook, and investors shouldn’t dismiss the opportunity.
That’s according to...
FILS USA 2022: Market structure under microscope
There are a host of regulatory proposals out there that stand to have a material and practical impact on how fixed income markets operate,...
FILS USA 2022: Leveraging technology to greater effect
The audience at FILS USA got an in-depth insight into optimising front office technology on Thursday, with a detailed analysis of how desktop interoperability...
FILS USA 2022: Beyond RFQ?
Fixed income trading is well beyond the request for quote (RFQ)-only era, i.e. when the only way for a trader to find the other...
FILS USA 2022: News you may have missed this week
Treasury launches new effort to improve resilience of its market
The US Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury...
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed.
While technology has greatly advanced the...
FILS USA 2022: Finding trader 2.0
Getting the next generation of traders to have the right skills and capabilities, without losing the existing market knowledge, requires traders to be multi-faceted,...
