EWIFA Winner: Turning challenge into opportunity
Serene Murphy, Head of Corporate Development for Europe & Asia at Tradeweb, talks market structure, adaptability and innovation.
Can you please tell me what is...
Review: An apples-to-apples comparison of all-to-all trading platforms
We compare the very different all-to-all offerings provided by electronic trading platforms.
A good all-to-all offering can really support electronic liquidity provision, especially if traditional...
Country focus: India’s bond markets in an election year
India has an upcoming election on 19 April, which the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is widely...
LatAm sees e-trading momentum with support for all-to-all
In Latin America, 46% of trading in corporate hard currency bonds is conducted electronically, according to research by analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, compared to...
The greatest surprises in bond trading of the last decade
The DESK asked interviewees from its ‘On The DESK’ profile interviews of the last ten years to assess the most surprising changes they had...
Implication of US bank downgrades on credit markets
Markets are truly feeling the economic pressures at present, with Moody’s downgrade to US financials on Monday following Fitch’s controversial downgrade of the US,...
Primary markets see gradual progress as Investor Access reaches 600 buy-side users
A quick straw poll of buy-side traders suggests most believe the electronification of primary markets has stalled somewhat, with twice as many seeing progress...
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...
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...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
