Science vs. art: Where TCA adds value in fixed income
Picking the right transaction cost analysis methodology might improve best execution, but qualitative assessment must balance the quantitative, writes Flora McFarlane.
MiFID II obliges buy-side...
Technology : Order management systems : Dan Barnes
Will buy-side firms build the OMS they need?
Complaints about order management system performance still dog the fixed income markets, increasing the likelihood of in-house...
Joeri Wouters joins Tradeweb; firm launches ‘trade-at-close’ for portfolio trading
Joeri Wouters has been named product development manager within the AiEx and workflow solutions team of market operator Tradeweb, after 15 years as a...
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,...
Exclusive: Bloomberg’s New Issues Feed takes small, important step towards improving bond issuance
Bloomberg has launched a real-time feed, called the ‘New Issues Feed’, to provide clients with access to standardised information on new issues earlier in...
Shah joins new fixed income team at Premier Miton Investors
Anish Shah has been named senior fixed income dealer at Premier Miton Investors, formed from the merger of Premier Asset Management Group and Miton...
Fed breaks silence on HFT in treasuries
Having opened the US government debt market to high-frequency trading, authorities now push market participants to “be good citizens”. Dan Barnes reports.
The Federal Reserve...
Better numbers: How desks can improve their data skills
As data use becomes more prevalent, trading desks need to introduce new skills on the desk either through training or new team members.
Twenty years...
Broadridge preempts trader demands with BondGPT update
Broadridge has updated BondGPT to anticipate user queries and provide market data and insights based on their progression through the investment and trading workflow.
Through...
Wave Labs’ eLiSA successfully executes first ever trade with Groupama Asset Management
Wave Labs, a provider of credit execution solutions, has successfully executed its first ever trade on its Electronic Liquidity Seeking Application (eLiSA) with Groupama...
Lucas Busch promoted at LGAM
L&G Asset Management has promoted Lucas Busch to head of US credit trading.
Busch has been with the firm since 2019 as a credit trader,...
FlexTrade integrates IHS Markit pre-trade TCA data into EMS
FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management system provider, and IHS Markit, the analytics and solutions provider to buy- and sell-side firms, are integrating...
