Credit

How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing

Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...

The DESK Research: The state of liquidity for US mid-market asset management firms

In 2022, despite robust secondary trading volumes, many buy-side firms are citing worsening liquidity conditions and dealers have seen falling trading revenues moving into...

Fink: BlackRock’s private credit strategy ties Prequin and Aladdin

In BlackRock’s second quarter (Q2) earnings call, CEO and chairman, Larry Fink, has set out the firm’s vision of expansion into private credit markets. He...

Citi asserts control over any data tied to bilateral client trades

The European credit trading team at Citi has, according to several large asset managers, told buy-side clients the bank owns any data relating to...

Top trends in fixed income electronification for 2018

By Flora McFarlane. Analyst firm Aite Group has predicted six electronification trends for fixed income in 2018, highlighting further room for expansion for fintech firms,...

Did UBS/CS deal terms just revalue the entire AT1 bond market?

Buy-side trading desks say they are looking at the risk of contagion across financials, following the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse by UBS, for...

Bond traders predict data science/AI use explosion in 2026

The DESK’s Corporate Bond Liquidity Access Survey, supported by LTX, finds trading desks are on the cusp of change. Buy-side traders see 2026 as a turning...

Member

“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...

Flextrade and BlackRock platforms to integrate, extending OEMS consolidation trend

Execution management system (EMS) provider Flextrade and Aladdin, the order management system (OMS) developed by asset manager BlackRock, are to deepen their partnership, with...