Q2.2019

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...