Crunch on liquidity costs
As bid-ask spreads begin to widen on both sides of the Atlantic, buy-side credit traders need to reassess how to best manage the crunch...
Fixed Income Automation Surge: 60% of Credit Traders Now Use Robots
The electronification of fixed income markets is accelerating, driven by increased adoption of automated trading systems, with 60 per cent of credit market participants...
When not to use portfolio trading
Portfolio trading cannot please all of the people all of the time.
The success of portfolio trading (PT) as a protocol has taken bond markets...
Exclusive: Quinn and Sobel discuss Trumid’s new portfolio trading protocol
Trumid, the fixed income electronic trading platform, has launched a portfolio trading protocol. Designed to simplify and extend electronic portfolio trading for institutional clients...
Getting the measure of sell-side portfolio trading
In its recent report on investment banking activity in 2020, analyst firm Coalition observed that there had been substantial growth in sell-side portfolio trading,...
ICE Bonds sees record notional volume for portfolio trading
Market operator, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has reported record volumes for fixed income portfolio trading during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Over US$1.9 billion in US-based...
FILS Day One: Traders give lessons on dealing desk versatility
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit launched with practical lessons from buy-side traders on how to handle the very different trading conditions seen in 2020,...
In uncertain times, corporate bond traders seek certainty of execution
Portfolio trading has emerged as a go-to mechanism to buy or sell many bonds at once.
Traders want the best price - but they also...
