Greenwich Associates: 54% expect increased spend on consolidated data feeds
The onset of the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting the importance of market data infrastructure for both buy-side and sell-side firms, with pricing data feeds...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between...
Reported Flextrade/MarketAxess link promises efficient buy-side trading
Reports that buy-side traders are able to manage trades directly in the MarketAxess platform via execution management system (EMS) Flextrade are creating considerable interest.
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AxeTrading expands modelling and pricing tools; builds out FX and futures
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, has launched version 5 of AxeTrader, its fixed-income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. This latest...
BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of Global Fixed Income, co-manager of the BlackRock Fixed Income Global Opportunities fund and BGF Global Bond Income...
ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
Not fighting the Fed on high yield flow
High yield bonds have seen electronic trading in the US increase, with liquidity enhanced by the Federal Reserve’s announcement on 9 April that it...
Report: Buy-side traders often still seen as ‘trading support’
A new report by Liquidnet entitled ‘Unbundling Best Execution: What do traders need to know?’ has found that while most buy-side trading desks are...
Messaging tools spike as remote trading takes off
Providers of messaging tools used by portfolio managers, buy-side traders, sales traders and sell-side dealers have seen volumes spike as remote working becomes a...
RBC hires Sayers from Citi to lead HY sales
Joe Sayers has joined RBC Capital Markets from Citi as head of high yield and loan sales, based in London and reporting to Janet...
