Investor Demand: Retail to rule private markets, institutional investors say
Institutional investors expect their retail counterparts to dominate private markets over the next two years, according to a recent State Street survey.
Retail-style vehicles will...
Data – Can buy-side firms share bond-trading data?
Asset managers agree they need access to more trading data, but have struggled to share it effectively between themselves.
The paucity of access to bond...
TransFICC: Technology, efficiency, and the rise of liquidity outsourcing
Technology, Efficiency, and the Rise of Liquidity Outsourcing
By Tim Whipman, Head of Business Development at TransFICC
This article is the first in a quarterly series...
Transficc partners with Quinsol for their pricing engine
Quinsol Software, a startup innovator in fixed-income trading solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with TransFICC.
This collaboration aims to integrate Quinsol's Bond Price Hub...
Citi bolsters Australian, New Zealand markets business with seven appointments
Citi Australia and New Zealand’s Markets business has expanded its team with seven appointments across markets sales, asset-backed securitisation and financing, G10 rates trading,...
Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
BlackRock loses senior market structure team as Winnike departs
BlackRock has lost its second senior market structure specialist in a few weeks as Michael Winnike, director, market structure at BlackRock, left the firm...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : UBS Bond Port
Adopting an agency approach has allowed UBS to deliver a service that has eluded many other banks via Bond Port.
As a result, the...
PBI integrates 7 Chord’s BondDroid fixed income pricing
PBI has integrated 7 Chord’s near real-time, delayed, and end-of-day bond prices for corporate, sovereign and government bonds within its investment management systems, which...
US Treasury market change catalysed by proprietary trading firms
Proprietary trading firms are driving change faster than the interdealer brokers, writes David Wigan.
Direct streaming of pricing data is changing the historical client/dealer relationship...
Securities financing conditions tightened somewhat while market making activity gained, ECB says
The Desk has analyzed the December 2024 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD), which provides...
FILS 2022: Automation drive continues amid liquidity squeeze
Recruiting an army of coders cannot be a panacea for traders’ data, liquidity problems, according to an all-star panel on day one of this...
