The unspoken truth about US Treasuries
Susan Estes, co-founder, CEO & President at OpenDoor speaks to The DESK and exposes the hidden risks within the US Treasury market for institutional investors.
Dealer business...
Insights & Analysis : Makeup removal time for Powell at Jackson Hole
The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, used the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium on 22 August to confirm a formal reset of the Fed policy...
Trumid announces record platform activity in January
Bond market operator, Trumid, has reported a record month of activity in January 2020 on Trumid Market Center, the company’s electronic bond trading platform....
Fixed Income Leaders : The DESK
Fixed Income Leaders – Expectations for 2018
The DESK spoke with members of the advisory panel for FILS Amsterdam to assess the likely agenda.
In November 2018,...
Joseph Parascandolo swaps Equilend for Wematch
Wematch.live has appointed Joseph Parascandolo as director of securities lending sales and coverage for North America, based in New York.
Parascandolo has more than 20...
Deutsche Bank fined, again
Deutsche Bank (DBK) is still falling foul of its past misconduct. The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Spain's National Securities Market Commission,...
Jim Kwiatkowski named CEO of LTX, Toffey becomes chairman of the board
LTX, Broadridge Financial Solutions' bond, digital trading business, has promoted Jim Kwiatkowski to the role of CEO.
Jim Toffey, co-founder of LTX, will succeed Art...
SEC approves primary market database for US credit
Last week US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) signed off the development of a single central source of new issue reference...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
The greatest surprises in bond trading of the last decade
The DESK asked interviewees from its ‘On The DESK’ profile interviews of the last ten years to assess the most surprising changes they had...
Can retail order flow impact institutional trading?
A new trend or only a one-off? Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub & Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, talk...
E-trading on the rise in Japanese bonds
Japan’s initially slow adoption of e-trading is increasing in pace as local investors seek liquidity in local and foreign markets, according to a recent...
















