The Agency Broker Hub: How agency brokers are shedding their skin
By Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo Group*
The agency broker has always played one of the principal roles on the...
Enhancing trading through better surveillance
Trade surveillance, like best execution, can be harder to analyse in fixed income markets due to the complexity of instruments, access to data and...
A wild ride: Tradeweb’s Hult reviews the bond market in 2023
Historic interest rate moves, a debt ceiling stalemate, major bank collapses and massive geopolitical instability. These mega events sent shocks through the markets in...
Re-designing the fixed income landscape
Benjamin Bécar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies believes that growing access to data is enabling buy-side firms to transform their trading workflow...
European Markets Choice Awards Winner: Tradeweb
Enrico Bruni, Managing Director and Head of Europe and Asia Business at Tradeweb spoke to Dan Barnes about market evolution over the last 18...
7 Chord on Geopolitical Risk in Bond Prices
7 Chord promises to change the way AI pricing reacts and adapts to sudden geopolitical events and their aftermath.
The DESK spoke with Kristina Fan, CEO of 7 Chord,...
Viewpoint: The impact of regulation: Tim Keady
Rearchitecting your compliance framework.
Tim Keady, Managing Director, Head of DTCC Solutions and Chief Client Officer at DTCC.
Since the 2008 financial crisis the industry has confronted numerous waves...
Industry viewpoint: Fabrizio Testa, MTS
Innovation in the age of electronic fixed income trading.
Fabrizio Testa, CEO of MTS
What trends have characterised the bond markets that MTS facilitates over the last year?
The...
J.P. Morgan: Survey reveals specific growth opportunities for electronic trading
Expectations of volatility jump as traders across the market seek liquidity and cost management through single dealer platforms.
J.P Morgan’s annual E-trading Edit, a comprehensive...
Buy-side desks find favour in credit futures
The expansion of Eurex’s credit futures offering into dollar and multicurrency products promises broader and deeper opportunities for investors.
A keen buy-side appetite for credit...















