Industry viewpoint

Exploding post-MiFID II data myths

Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product Management at MarketAxess spoke to The DESK about the real impact MiFID II will have upon the data landscape. How...

Impact of the MiFID II SI assessment delay

Geoffroy Vander Linden, Head of Transparency Solutions, Trax. On 4 November 2016, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Q&A document outlining their...

The trouble with Treasuries

The DESK asks Susan Estes, CEO, OpenDoor Trading LLC., for her insights into the US Treasuries market. How would you describe the depth and width...

Vive la revolution!

Securing the benefits of the markets’ democratic revolution. By Mike du Plessis, Managing Director, Global Head FX, Rates and Credit Execution Services and Mark Goodman,...

Sourcing and connecting: The buy-side fixed income liquidity challenge

By Frank Cerveny, Head of Markets and Sales at MTS. How can institutional investors find the liquidity to grow their fixed income businesses with the...

Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned

By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...

Trading places – From bonds to fixed income ETFs

Phil Cichlar, Head of Fixed Income Sales & Trading at Jane Street shares his insight on the burgeoning ETF market. Fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...

Repo ripe for evolution

The broken mechanics of the repo market have been exposed creating demand for change says Roberto Verrillo, Head of Strategy and Markets at Elixium. “Those...

Bitcoin, blockchain and the DLT chimera

The uncertain promises of distributed ledger technology for financial markets. By Ferdinando Ametrano, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo). Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at a very...