The right tools for trading: Tim Monahan, ICE
Tim Monahan, senior director of product management at ICE explains how ICE continues to develop services and products that better support traders in fixed...
Bank of England launches SWES test for bond markets
The Bank of England (BoE) has published the latest phase of the System-wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) with bank and non-bank participants provided a hypothetical...
Trading hacks and force multipliers for the smaller trading team
Faced with rising trading volumes and falling returns, buy-side bond desks are frequently either shrinking or at best struggling to match resource with requirements.
We...
Beyond Liquidity: Automation a key theme in fixed income
Automation was one of the most discussed themes at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Barcelona, which took place earlier this month, with...
Breaking into credit with e-trading
The rising rate environment has increased interest in fixed income exposure amongst end investors.
In the US, The DESK has met with several fund...
Beyond Liquidity: Tokenization could improve bond liquidity & transparency
Bond markets could potentially use tokenization to improve efficiency, liquidity and transparency according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) as consultancy McKinsey said...
Beyond Liquidity: T+1 Testing Begins
DTCC, the US post-trade market infrastructure, formally started the testing program for moving to a shorter settlement cycle on 14 August so market participants...
ICE Data Services: Data in Action
Beneath the surface: Visibility is only as good as your data
By David Varano, ICE Data Services Director, Business Development, and Jaimi Goldberg, ICE Data Services Solutions Specialist,...
Local currency emerging market trading grows at MarketAxess
MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has seen a rise in volumes of local currency bond trading in emerging...
Beyond Liquidity: Regulators warn on alternative Libor rates
Libor, the benchmark interest rate that was embedded in hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world, ceased publication at the...













