Aligning the pre-trade credit liquidity picture and the execution goal
Pre-trade data and market colour are imperative for buy-side traders looking to achieve best execution in corporate bond markets. Understanding how that applies to...
September takes the biscuit in new issues
September did not disappoint in its delivery of high issuance in the US for corporate bonds across both investment grade and high yield. Monthly...
What’s up EM?
Emerging market volumes have jumped in September, hitting levels not seen since April 2025, when the US trade taxes on imported goods from every...
“A fixed income price is not a fact. A fixed income price is an...
David LaRusso is the head of fixed income trading at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and has just celebrated his 25th anniversary at the firm. The...
Quantum computing ‘breakthrough’ has “more red flags than a People’s Liberation Army parade”
The claim by HSBC that noise in an IBM quantum computer helped deliver a 34% improvement in algorithmic trading performance has been disputed by...
It is EMS time for credit traders
The value proposition for execution management systems (EMSs) in fixed income markets has seen an about face in the past year. Buy-side firms who...
Issuance up in lower rated debt
Analysis by Morgan Stanley’s team has found that, despite the slowing down of bond issuance globally in August, the higher levels of activity in...
High yield market makers comfortable with risk
European bond traders are seeing average trade sizes expanding in September while bid ask spreads lower to the bottom end of their range as...
Argentina’s battle for control
Argentina’s bond markets have been notoriously challenging for investors. Twenty years after the country underwent a major debt restructuring, and just five years after...
TradeTech FX: Multi-asset trading success conditional on buy-side objectives
The value of multi-asset trading desks to an investment manager is conditional on the goals of the buy-side firm aligning with the firm.
At TradeTech...
