CMSA – The drive to change industry dialogue in corporate bond markets
To create a wider dialogue around industry change, the Credit Market Structure Alliance (CMSA) is building an event with a democratic agenda.
The DESK: Why...
Research: Analytics use in trading workflow increases by 72% over three years
Effectiveness for reporting and desk performance assessment improves year-on-year.
The DESK’s latest research into trading analytics has found its use growing within the trading workflow,...
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On The DESK: What it takes to build a multi-asset trading team
Since becoming global head of trading at Schroders, Gregg Dalley has helped his teams become a single, multi-asset trading unit.
The DESK: What is your team’s...
Primary ignition – at both ends
Politics are being side lined in the battle for efficiency in primary markets for buyers, and for issuers.
The top operational priority for buy-side, and...
On the Desk: Engineering better trading
Honing the trading function is an art; it requires an engineer’s eye for improving systems but a leader’s eye for putting the team first.
How...
Top tips from TradeTech: Connect debt, derivatives and equity trading
Buy-side traders have observed that close ties in the trading team based on the targets on an investment – be that corporate or government...
Systematic credit trading changes the buy/sell-side dynamic
An investment manager capable of making a price in less than a minute in Europe, or several minutes in the US, can be a...
Flow Traders: Algos supported 20% of bond flows in 2022
A new white paper from exchange traded fund (ETF) market maker, Flow Traders, estimates that in the past two to three years, credit algos...
Credit Spotlight: How clear can pre-trade get?
Pre-trade transparency is a nirvana for over-the-counter markets, particularly corporate bond trading, which lack the publicly displayed prices of the exchange-traded market.
Unless it...
On The DESK: Leaders in bond trading pinpoint risks and opportunities
We asked the buy-side traders we have profiled on The DESK for the past ten years to discuss the biggest changes they thought had...
