Q2.2019

On The DESK: Trading and Technology collaborating for the future

Erik Tumasz and Josh Grodin of Wellington Management on honing trillion-dollar Wellington Management’s technology-driven edge in trading. How do you structure your trading desks? Josh Grodin:...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...