FSB: Greater transparency, all-to-all trading and clearing could reduce rates markets dislocation
A paper by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which coordinates international regulatory efforts to promote effective policies, has reported that dealer blame uncertainty over...
Federal Reserve: Dealer sensitivity major barrier to all-to-all trading in US Treasuries
A new staff paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found there are possible advantages in delivering all-to-all trading to...
Trading: How to find liquidity in a drought
When market makers offer no bids for corporate bond trades, buy-side traders need to get creative.
Dealers are the main source of liquidity in the...
Editorial: Asset managers wilt as banks impose hose-pipe ban
In the UK, during dry conditions, the government bans the public from using hosepipes in order to conserve water. In 2022, the sell side...
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...
Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
MiFID II Review: EC could allow payment for order flow in Europe
An ongoing review of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has seen debate on...
Barclays: Portfolio trading 8% of US credit market volume
Barclays has conducted new analysis into portfolio trading of corporate bonds, estimating the trading protocol now makes up 8% of US credit trading.
The firm...
TP ICAP connects dealers to Liquidnet’s New Issue Trading protocol
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market infrastructure and information provider, is enabling dealers to join the buy-side in placing orders and trade directly on...
What traders need to know about inflation and volatility
Significant rises in inflation have not been seen within the careers of many traders – this is what they need to know.
As inflation increases,...
