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FILS US 2023: Technology tipping point was years ago, says BlackRock research chief –...
Stefano Pasquali, head of liquidity and trading research at BlackRock, told Coalition Greenwich’s Bob Fink that when it comes to technology, the focus now is on scaling up to empower automation and build more...
FILS USA 2023: High net worth clients are ‘wildly bearish’ but still at risk
Despite having a risk-off mentality, global high net worth clients are still heavily into holding cash and tech stocks, and could do with diversifying their portfolios, according to Thomas Kennedy, managing director, chief investment...
FILS USA 2023: Fed has lost investors’ confidence in guidance
The Federal Reserve’s constant mistakes on forward guidance have lost the confidence of some buy-side firms in its ability to predict outlooks.
Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Nashville, Art DeGaetano, founder...
FILS USA 2023: ‘Rising Stars’ discuss present, future skillsets in finance
It is about bridging the gap between the front office and technologists.
Themes of the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Nashville included technology’s impact on market structure; the importance of data; the potential of...
FILS USA 2023: More progress needed to advance gender equality
Speakers at FILS US DEI brunch discuss ways to advance equity in the industry.
Women continue to advance their representation, pay, and seniority in the financial industry, but progress is too slow. “We’re getting...
EXCLUSIVE: Citadel Securities confirms plans to enter corporate bond market
Citadel Securities has announced plans to enter the corporate bond market this year, The DESK can reveal, in a surprise play for one of the few areas of the market that it does not...
FILS USA 2023: Finding efficiency in fixed income trading
Market operators seek to expand reach of surprisingly resilient automation.
Fixed income trading has become much more efficient over the years, driven by new technologies and electronic processes, and further advances lie ahead. That is...
FILS USA 2023: Traders test the water with new execution methods
The ability to use new trading protocols can be highly dependent upon the funds that a desk trades for and the types of instruments that it manages.
Sell-side firms have been keen to support...
FILS US 2023: Traders need tech solutions that plug directly into their workflow
The View on Liquidity panel at FILS US 2023 had some stern words on the urgent need to integrate better protocols directly into workflows – with technology crucial to accessing better liquidity faster and...
FILS US 2023: Trading protocols urgently need to evolve, says All-Star Panel
Panelists speaking on the All-star Protocol Predictions Panel in Nashville this week agreed that, love it or hate it, the request for quote (RFQ) is here to stay - but urgently needs to evolve....
FILS USA 2023: Market volatility has tested e-trading and instrument selection
Having had a challenging and volatile first half of the year from a liquidity perspective, not least because of a crisis in US and European banking, the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Nashville heard...
FILS USA 2023: Macro effect on trading; BlackRock says higher rates ‘not fleeting’
The macro environment is having a major effect on the attractiveness of certain instruments, noted Sonali Pier, managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, but also on trading.
Speaking at the plenary session of the...
Exclusive: Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence collaborate on bond issuance
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have launched an integrated solution to streamline the syndicated primary bond market lifecycle. Bond market issuance has historically been a manual process which adds risk and friction for...
ChatGPT: What are traders asking in Nashville?
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a major topic of conversation at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) in Nashville this year, with its potential to support data aggregation and unstructured information offering real facility...
Research: TCA use in bond markets
New research of 36 buy-side firms has found that 81% of respondents find fixed income TCA effective for assessing broker performance, 77% for regulatory and 70% for client reporting, followed by internal assessment measures....
Worsening credit conditions battle improving trading capabilities
Both defaults and rerating of bonds are more likely in a high rate environment, and for trading desks this means finding efficient ways to handle the risks created for portfolio manager in both circumstances.
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This page is dedicated to reports from The Fixed Income Leaders Summit, Nashville, 22-24 June, 2022. More content will follow from Wednesday 29th June onwards. Sessions on the 22nd June, the Buyside Evaluation day, will not be reported.
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