MeTheMoneyShow: Robinhood IPO; US Treasury Trading Issues
In this podcast Dan Barnes speaks with Terry Flanagan about Robinhood's recent IPO and how the retail brokerage app fits in the market ecosystem. They...
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
The Agency Broker Hub: The challenge of retail-size electronic fixed income trading
By Lisa Tellia, E-Commerce Distribution – Market Hub, Global Markets Sales & Platforms at Intesa Sanpaolo
Fixed Income execution has traditionally been very complex and...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Lagarde: Capital Markets Union is failing, calls for European SEC to combat national interests
In a speech to the European Banking Congress in Frankfurt on 17 November 2023, Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB, has said the transition...
Dealers warned about counterparty credit risk by ECB head
Using a blog post, Andrea Enria, chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has highlighted risks facing the sell-side around...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : Neptune
NEPTUNE.
The only one of the first-generation, pre-trade data providers to thrive, Neptune is a firm favourite. Described by its interim CEO, Byron Cooper-Fogarty, as...
On The Desk: Christoph Hock: On building efficiency
Union Investment’s development of a multi-asset trading team and segregation of high and low touch business is allowing it to focus trading resource where...
Credit Agricole, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank join DirectBooks
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank have joined the primary bond market platform operator DirectBooks. The...
Research: Fixed Income TCA Survey 2022
Better integration into trading workflow
The DESK’s execution research survey into fixed income TCA 2022.
Our research took in 40 major asset management firms’ use...
FINRA publishes annual regulatory oversight report
FINRA has published its Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, providing member firms with insights and observations to help strengthen their compliance programmes. New topics covered...
Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility
Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by...