Liquidity provider profile: Millennium Advisors
The DESK looks at fixed income liquidity providers business models in depth.
This month, we spoke with Millennium Advisors' Laurent Paulhac, group CEO and Caroline...
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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Technology: What large language models do to the trading desk
LLMs are already adding value to trading teams.
The advent of Open AI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) tool has generated as many column inches...
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...
How to innovate in a volatile bond market
When trading teams are fully stretched it is hard for them to support innovation and change, yet Dan Barnes finds that the two things...
Dealers face crunch on platform trading costs
As bid-ask spreads tighten and fees rise, dealers question making markets in credit.
It does not take a quant to understand that tighter bid-ask spreads...
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...
Opinion: Competition, not regulation, will make better bond markets
European credit trading has historically seen levels of electronic trading of around 50% of total corporate credit trading, while the US market has historically...
On the Desk: Ed Wicks, head of trading, L&G Asset Management
Ed Wicks, L&G Asset Management's head of trading, sat down with The DESK to discuss how the company organises its operations, the trends he...
On the DESK: Making traders integral to the investment process
Sonali Pier explains how a trader can stand out, and be given a sense of owning the investment process through leadership.
How is trading built...
