Are your traders for hire?
Growing numbers of asset managers are hiring third parties to provide their trading desks. Dan Barnes investigates.
Fixed income funds are under increasing pressure to...
Disruption without interruption
David Parker, Head of MTS Markets International (MMI) discusses tapping into the benefits of fixed income trading technology.
Technological advancements are quietly – and sometimes...
The data puzzle
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structure, Market Hub at Banca IMI outlines the impact of regulation and the importance of data in a...
Let’s be open….
Herb Werth, Managing Director, IHS Markit
As capital markets innovators, one area where we’ve spent considerable time recently has been new issuance. At first glance,...
A practical guide to buyside automation in credit markets
Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product at MarketAxess, looks at how automating buyside trade execution works in real life, and why it should be...
BIS targets liquidity cliff in repo
Banks have reacted to end-of-quarter capital reporting by reducing activity, leading to sudden declines in liquidity; now authorities are reacting.
Banks have been ‘window dressing’...
Municipal bond traders push for better execution
A standardised framework of processes could emerge from platform providers and regulators to support electronification.
In a market without infrastructure, common standards of behaviour and...
Re-designing the fixed income landscape
Benjamin Bécar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies believes that growing access to data is enabling buy-side firms to transform their trading workflow...
Buy-side firms may dominate front office tech
Buy-side firms need to make secular decisions about whether to buy or sell technology to other asset managers. Dan Barnes reports.
In April, CEO of...
The buy side’s smart data-driven future
With the rise of low-cost ETFs, so-called ‘smart-beta’ strategies and the struggling performance of many actively managed funds, buy-side firms are coming under increasing...
