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...
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...
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,...
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’...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
