FILS 2018: Brexit may further impede transparency
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...
AGI’s Böss: Margin compression and frustration with regulators
Doing more with less, and frustration with regulatory initiatives are the biggest stories for buy-side firms said Eric Böss, global head of trading at Allianz Global Investors, at the plenary session of the Fixed...
Man AHL co-CEO outlines value of AI in asset management
By Dan Barnes.
The extent to which AI can be used in the investment and trading space is fiercely debated.
Matthew Sargaison, co-chief executive officer, Man AHL and Marco Fasoli managing partner at AI Machines, spoke at...
No respite for Italian volatility
By Chris Hall.
Political uncertainties will continue to guarantee challenging conditions for investors in Italian government bonds well into 2019, according to speakers on Thursday’s CIO keynote panel at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in...
FCA “utterly useless” engaging with EU over Brexit
By Chris Hall.
Veteran city commentator Anthony Hilton delivered a harsh verdict on the UK financial regulators’ efforts to support Britain’s finance industry ahead of the country’s departure from the European Union, speaking on the...
The reward of risk
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...
Focus resources on fixed income TCA, industry urged
By Joel Clark.
Market participants and technology providers must focus their intelligence and resources on developing robust transaction cost analysis (TCA) for fixed income, in spite of the challenges that may be encountered in extracting...
Swinburne: Traders should beware of radical change in Europe
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...
FILS 2018: Advent of AI sees traders reskill, retool
By Chris Hall.
Buy-side traders risk redundancy and irrelevance if they do not adapt to the opportunities for automation of fixed-income execution provided by new technologies, delegates were told in the FILS panel session on...
FILS Amsterdam: Traders are fighting on several fronts
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...
