Saturday, April 27, 2024
Home FILS EVENTS The FILS Report

The FILS Report

Up to date reporting on and around The Fixed Income Leaders Summit, Amsterdam, 6-8 November 2018

FILS Amsterdam: Traders are fighting on several fronts

FILS Amsterdam: Traders are fighting on several fronts

0
By Dan Barnes. Traders are still fighting for better data and transparency – in the right places – at FILS Amsterdam 2018, but the elephant in the room is Brexit. There are concerns about the...
Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess

Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess

0
Erik Tham has joined MarketAxess as head of Private Banking, for Benelux and Switzerland, leaving his position as executive director at UBS Wealth Management, where he was most recently head of fixed income &...
Repo: productivity and profitability opportunities

Repo: productivity and profitability opportunities

0
By Tim Martins, Product Manager for Money Markets and Derivatives at MTS. Repo workflow: the sales and relationship opportunity... B2C repo workflow hasn’t changed much for a long time. Client enquiries come in via a separate...
Euro swaps clearing: hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Euro swaps clearing: hope for the best, prepare for the worst

0
By Joel Clark. As the UK’s exit from the European Union edges closer, concern over the vexed question of clearing of euro-denominated swaps has intensified, but clearing house officials and market participants speaking at the...
Trading automation in the fixed income market

Trading automation in the fixed income market

0
Nicholas Bean, Head of Electronic Trading Solutions, and Ravi Sawhney, Head of Fixed Income Automation at Bloomberg speak to The DESK. How much of the fixed income trading lifecycle can be automated? Nicholas Bean: All functions of...
Swinburne: Traders should beware of radical change in Europe

Swinburne: Traders should beware of radical change in Europe

0
Brexit will mean that politics will take precedent over principal, when setting policy in Europe, warned Kay Swinburne MEP, speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Amsterdam. "We need to consider the changes that...
Concern over data dominates corporate bond discussions

Concern over data dominates corporate bond discussions

0
Limited access to data is impeding quantitative analysis of best execution for corporate bonds, leading to a need for more qualitative analysis for many bond trades. Speaking at the panel, ‘What are the parameters you...
Developing liquid, sustainable markets in SOFR and SONIA

Developing liquid, sustainable markets in SOFR and SONIA

0
In conversation with Mark Rogerson, executive director, head of interest rate products, EMEA, CME Group Momentum is gathering in the development of alternative reference rates to replace LIBOR and the other IBORs. How is CME...
FILS 2018: Brexit may further impede transparency

FILS 2018: Brexit may further impede transparency

0
By Joel Clark. Nearly a year on from the implementation of MiFID II, the rulebook has still not achieved its objective of increasing transparency in European fixed income markets. Furthermore, the advent of Brexit in...
The reward of risk

The reward of risk

0
By Larry E. Fondren, Founder & CEO, DelphX Capital Markets Inc. Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the effective cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement to its potential return – overlooking the additional potential return...