Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
SEC proposes regulation of high-frequency trading firms in US Treasury market
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has proposed regulation of high-frequency trading (HFT) firms, also referred to as proprietary trading firms...
Will primary market tools fragment new issuance instead of standardising it?
Research by The DESK has found that buy-side traders have adopted a range of primary market tools to help them increase their efficiency at...
Port in a storm: Asian international bond markets resilient amid volatility
Volatile interest rates, a fractious geopolitical landscape, and rumbles in the Chinese property sector. Despite these headwinds, the international bond markets in Asia were...
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Institutional sales trader veteran James Williams moves to Tourmaline Europe
Institutional sales trader veteran James Williams has been made managing director of outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Europe, based out of London.
Williams has spent...
ICE: Optimizing the data pipeline for buy-side trading desks
Buy-side bond traders can enhance execution through a flexible data offering.
The DESK spoke with Mark Heckert, ICE’s Chief Operating Officer of Fixed Income...
APEX:E3 new AI service ALICE codes equations found in reports, TCA and research papers
Technology and analytics provider, APEX:E3, has launched a new integrated AI service, ALICE, to allow buy-and sell-side firms to rapidly analyse large documents and...
Fund location in a passive world
As hurricane Irma smashed into the British Virgin Islands (BVI) the headlines were correctly focused on the human impact. Yet in the financial markets...
Revisiting corporate credit amidst market volatility
By Edward Perks (Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions).
In 2018, rising inflation, higher US interest rates and escalating trade tensions...
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Axess IQTM: The eyes and ears of the market
Over the past twelve months, MarketAxess in partnership with Insigneo rolled out a pilot program to put...
Warning on credit exposure
There are several cases to argue for reduced credit exposure, noted Stefan Hofrichter, global economist at Allianz Global Investors, speaking on Wednesday at the...
Why is collateral not under pressure?
The repapering of CSAs may be taking precedent but collateral management is coming back on the agenda. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
Ever since the European...
