ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1...
CME to launch rates futures based on Mexico’s F-TIIE
Derivative and rates market operator, CME Group, is to introduce interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight TIIE funding rate...
Investor demand: China’s US$759bn Treasury holdings hang by a thread as tariff war escalates
A continued sell-off in Treasury bonds, exacerbated after a notably poor 3-year auction on Tuesday, 8 April, has sparked widespread speculation among market participants....
On The DESK: Chris Perryman: Boxing clever through emerging markets
Chris Perryman combines the brains to integrate quant strategies with the brawn of strong relationships ensuring PineBridge delivers best execution for investors.
Biography: Chris Perryman...
Investor Demand: Apollo outlines four scenarios for investors
Torsten Sløk, Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, has outlined four key scenarios that investors need to consider potential outcomes of the current trade war...
TransFICC: The Network is the Market – Improving access and automation in fixed income
By Steve Toland, co-founder TransFICC.
Remember Sun Microsystems’ tag line from 1984? “The Network is the Computer” – meaning computers should be networked, or they...
Primary markets : Discretion is the better part of bond issuance
The US regulator has raised questions over bank control of new issuance automation – the question is whether banks behave with valour.
A recent report...
Buy side hails positive development of STP for bond issuance
Risk warning lights flashing on buy-side trading desks could be assuaged thanks to industry collaboration on primary markets.
It seems incongruous that the 50-year old...
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...
Viewpoint: Why bond traders are changing their habits
Informed traders are discovering that newer approaches to executing trades are more successful than older, habitual paths.
The DESK spoke with Max Callaghan of MarketAxess...
Sukh Bachal hired by Neovest as co-head EMEA
Order/execution management system (OEMS) provider Neovest has hired Sukh Bachal as co-head Neovest EMEA and head of EMEA business development. Bachal was until recently...
Neptune 2.0 – How the new platform will deliver better investment and trading
Axe distribution service, Neptune, is evolving through a transformation of underlying technology, elevating its services to a new level.
Neptune’s CEO, John ‘Coach’ Robinson, and...
















