Q2.2019

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...

Changing the liquidity dynamic

US treasury traders are seeing enormous shifts in historical volume and trading patterns. Nichola Hunter, CEO of trading venue LiquidityEdge believes that asset managers...

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,...

Direct price streaming will transform credit trading

Banks are providing corporate bond pricing feeds direct to clients shaping new potential execution paths. Dan Barnes reports. Big investment banks including Morgan Stanley, UBS...

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...

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’...

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...

Three things to consider when choosing a SIMM™ margin provider

Samuel Hyman, Head of Americas, Cassini Systems If you trade bilateral OTC derivatives then you probably know by now that the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR)...

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...