Greenwich Associates: Fixed income desks see highest buy-side tech spend
Technology spend on buy-side trading desks rose 4% in 2019 from the previous year, to reach US$2.2 million on average, with fixed-income trading desks...
Is this the new era for electronic credit trading?
By Iseult E.A. Conlin, CFA., Managing Director, U.S. Cash Credit, Tradeweb.
Digital transformation is happening in industries all over the world. Whether it’s video streaming services disintermediating...
Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Research by analyst firm Coalition has found investment banking revenues reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2020, while headcount dropped significantly,...
ICE freezes bond indices until 30th April
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE’s) ICE Data Indices (IDI) has postponed the rebalancing of all the ICE and ICE BofA indices for bond, preferred and...
BNP Paribas joins with GTS for US Treasuries trading
By Flora McFarlane.
BNP Paribas has announced today that it has teamed up with quantitative trading firm, GTS, to access US Treasuries trading, signalling the...
Katana expands instrument universe by 30,000 bonds
With a reported accuracy of 91%, Katana uses machine learning algorithms and the latest big data technologies to analyse live and up to ten...
Smart deployment of tech is key to boost FI desk effectiveness
Mehmet Mazi, Managing Director and Head of Credit Trading at HSBC, gives his expert insight into optimising the trading desk.
Where are the greatest risks...
DirectBooks live with euro and sterling investment grade deals
Sell-side consortium DirectBooks, is now live with Euro and Sterling Investment Grade bond deal announcements on its bond issuance platform. The platform launched in...
Now the buy side can sell bonds to the Fed – via MarketAxess
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has been designated as an Eligible Seller for the central bank's Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by the Federal...
Oscar Kressner joins Millennium
Oscar Kressner has joined alternative asset manager Millennium Management Global Investment, as a portfolio manager covering global macro investing. Millennium, which has US$56 billion...
