The Agency Broker Hub: Innovation and preparation
The DESK asked Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub, the multi-asset agency brokerage execution platform of Intesa Sanpaolo, about the state of the...
The Agency Broker Hub: An Italian story
The Italian Treasury has implemented a flexible and diversified funding policy to manage the amount of Italian public debt. Here Laura Maridati, Digital Markets...
The Agency Broker Hub: The hybrid approach in fixed income brokerage
The hybrid approach in fixed income brokerage - How brokers better comply with clients’ execution models.
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Banca IMI,...
The Agency Broker Hub: Exchange traded derivatives – key European trends
Carmine Calamello, Head of Brokerage Desk, Market Hub – Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Some argue that the origin of derivatives contracts can be traced back to...
Can retail order flow impact institutional trading?
A new trend or only a one-off? Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub & Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, talk...
The Agency Broker Hub: The case for a consolidated tape
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo Group explains how a consolidated tape (CT) will help agency brokerage desks provide...
The Agency Broker Hub: When multi-execution means best execution
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo IMI CIB Division
In fixed income markets how do different execution models (principal, matching, agency)...
Agency Broker Hub: Business discontinuity
Business discontinuity: an ongoing threat for financial markets stability
By Lorenzo Bracchi and Monica Moschioni, Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo
Financial markets have...
The Agency Broker Hub: Capital markets digitalisation is flying above the cloud
Loris Buscaino & Paolo Ferracuti, Brokerage & Execution, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo IMI CIB Division.
Cloud-focused partnerships are initiatives that have gathered steam recently, due to...
The Agency Broker Hub: How agency brokers are shedding their skin
By Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo Group*
The agency broker has always played one of the principal roles on the...














