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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...