Industry viewpoint

Viewpoint: Nichola Hunter – The next big evolution in rates trading

Q&A with Nichola Hunter at MarketAxess. What were the drivers behind the MarketAxess expansion into rates? There were two main drivers. One was to provide, primarily...

Build informed trading strategies

Market participants need both quantity and quality of data. You asked for it. We’ve got it. In the global fixed income markets, more accessible and...

Portfolio trading just keeps growing

Portfolio trading has grown so much, so quickly that it’s even surprised us. When we first launched the functionality, which allows traders to package...

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...

MarketAxess: Changing liquidity conditions will impact the need for data

Data demands change as liquidity ebbs and flows, creating risks for buy-side traders as they seek to use more data to support their activity...

Ending technology asymmetry in primary markets for bonds

Asset managers are playing catchup in primary markets technology after banks invested heavily in automated book building, says Rahul Kambli, senior product owner at...

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,...

The Agency Broker Hub: Future trends of retail-size fixed income brokerage and its relevance...

By Massimiliano Raposio, Head of E-Commerce Distribution, Market Hub – IMI CIB Division, Intesa Sanpaolo. The purpose of this short note is to summarise our views on...