Buy side ‘owes’ it to the market to make progress with tech
By Joel Clark.
Using innovative systems and technology to improve fixed income trading is part of the duty of care that buy-side traders owe to their clients, management and the broader market, according to Lee...
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 panel, with coding languages such as ‘Python’ becoming a key...
Concern over data dominates corporate bond discussions
Limited access to data is impeding quantitative analysis of best execution for corporate bonds, leading to a need for more qualitative analysis for many bond trades.
Speaking at the panel, ‘What are the parameters you...
Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess
Erik Tham has joined MarketAxess as head of Private Banking, for Benelux and Switzerland, leaving his position as executive director at UBS Wealth Management, where he was most recently head of fixed income &...
Call for regulatory reform of primary markets
By Chris Hall.
Panellists were split on whether regulatory intervention is needed to improve transparency and efficiency in a debate on electronification and standardisation of primary market issuance.
“There is little or no transparency on how...
Developing liquid, sustainable markets in SOFR and SONIA
In conversation with Mark Rogerson, executive director, head of interest rate products, EMEA, CME Group
Momentum is gathering in the development of alternative reference rates to replace LIBOR and the other IBORs. How is CME...
Euro swaps clearing: hope for the best, prepare for the worst
By Joel Clark.
As the UK’s exit from the European Union edges closer, concern over the vexed question of clearing of euro-denominated swaps has intensified, but clearing house officials and market participants speaking at the...
Smart deployment of tech is key to boost FI desk effectiveness
Mehmet Mazi, Managing Director and Head of Credit Trading at HSBC, gives his expert insight into optimising the trading desk.
Where are the greatest risks for trading desks today?
I think price discovery in OTC /...
Trading automation in the fixed income market
Nicholas Bean, Head of Electronic Trading Solutions, and Ravi Sawhney, Head of Fixed Income Automation at Bloomberg speak to The DESK.
How much of the fixed income trading lifecycle can be automated?
Nicholas Bean: All functions of...
Take a modular approach to layering regs, industry told
By Joel Clark.
Having implemented multiple regulations on a standalone basis over the past decade, market participants must now take a more flexible modular approach that allows systems to be modified and tweaked as rulebooks...
