Python eats traders
By Chris Hall.
Balancing man and machine will be the critical success factor for buy-side trading desks, delegates were told in Thursday’s head trader keynote...
Squeezing the bid-ask spread
Bid-ask spreads in the corporate bond space have continued to collapse in 2025, suggesting that liquidity costs are dramatically improving for buy-side traders.
Looking at...
Bloomberg onboarded over 100 buy-side firms remotely during the pandemic
Bloomberg has reported that more than 100 clients globally implemented its buy-side solutions over the past year, between March 2020 and 2021. During the...
Aquis selected for Central Bank of Colombia government bond market
Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia, has selected Aquis Exchange to provide technology and support services for Sistema Electrónico de Negociación...
Technology: The real reason you cannot get a new trading system
Lynn Strongin Dodds investigates the barriers to adopting new technology.
Technological advances may be developing at breakneck speed but many of the barriers of adoption...
Bitcoin, blockchain and the DLT chimera
The uncertain promises of distributed ledger technology for financial markets. By Ferdinando Ametrano, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo).
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at a very...
IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
TP ICAP takes a minority stake in ipushpull
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market operator and data provider, has taken a minority stake in the UK financial technology firm, ipushpull.
The Series A...
Data: A blank tape
Europe’s consolidated tape proposal is a start, but many details still need to be filled in for its value to be assessed. Lynn Strongin...
Bloomberg makes its real-time B-PIPE data feed available on AWS
Bloomberg's flagship real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, has been available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving clients access to the same...
