Q2.2019

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’...

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...

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...

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...

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)...