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 : Information overload : Dan Barnes
Dealer axes: Can’t see the wood for the trees
A proliferation of axes and inventories are making dealer data hard to consume by trading desks....
FILS 2024: Applying AI to trading
Asset management and trading businesses are being transformed by artificial intelligence. That was the message from a series of panels at the Fixed Income...
IDX 2024: Buy-side strategies and derivatives benefits
During the ‘View from The Buy Side’ fireside chat at this year’s International Derivative Expo conference, Joseph Davidson, managing partner at Fulcrum Asset Management,...
How a partnership led by innovation is helping benefit investors
Tradeweb and Generali Investments have worked carefully to engineer maximum change with minimal risk to better support the asset manager’s clients.
Enrico Bruni, head of Europe...
Anthony Phillips expands Reinsurance Group of America role
Reinsurance Group of America has named Anthony Phillips as interim head of APAC portfolio management. He is based in London.
This expands on Phillips’ existing...
Why buy-side firms are building their own primary market tools
Interoperability is not a competitive issue; clients will build it if platforms do not supply it.
There is not a consensus on who should make the bond...
Europe will need to consider market liquidity to support issuance
NextGenerationEU is the EU's €800 billion temporary recovery instrument to support the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and build “a greener, more digital...
The case for deferring reports of larger trades
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published study consolidating fixed income trading data from numerous sources for the period of March...
Exclusive: Redefining credit markets – Neptune Networks and Liquidnet
Byron Cooper-Fogarty, CEO of Neptune Networks, and David Johnsen, head of fixed income at Liquidnet, delve into their vision for this transformative partnership.
With TP...
While rates trading hummed in Q3, “cockroaches” hide
Jamie Dimon, CEO at JP Morgan, warned that recent corporate blow-ups may presage wider credit issues: “When you see one cockroach, there are probably...
Ongoing effect of CSPP on European credit markets
Europe has seen considerable growth in credit issuance this year relative to 2023, with last week finding a 116% year-on-year increase in non-financial high...
