FILS 2021: Overcoming barriers to automation
Implementation costs are among the biggest hurdles for buy-side fixed income desks hoping to increase efficiency workflows.
Addressing delegates at the Fixed Leaders Summit in...
FILS 2021: Dealers outline strategy for direct connectivity
Buy-side traders are seeing their sell-side counterparts offering direct streamed prices as an alternative source for data and direct trading, which dealers see as...
FILS 2021: The five big questions at FILS this year
1. When will we see a functional consolidated tape?
Market structural discussions at FILS will naturally take in European Commission’s plans for the proposed consolidated...
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...
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...
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...
On the DESK – Amy Flynn on the evolution of xBK
Amy Flynn is a managing director and the head of xBK, the buy-side fiduciary execution desk within BNY Mellon Execution Services. Amy has led the...
CIOs assess stormy markets ahead
Managers can expect an even worse start to 2020 than they endured in 2019, unless credit markets see an adjustment, according to Chris Iggo,...
Fear that ‘diversity washing’ could limit progress
Mark Wade, head of credit research at Allianz Global Investors, has accused the financial services industry of ‘diversity washing’, during a debate about inclusivity...
Warning on credit exposure
There are several cases to argue for reduced credit exposure, noted Stefan Hofrichter, global economist at Allianz Global Investors, speaking on Wednesday at the...
