Trading places – From bonds to fixed income ETFs
Phil Cichlar, Head of Fixed Income Sales & Trading at Jane Street shares his insight on the burgeoning ETF market.
Fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...
Case Study – SURA Investments: How technology is transforming trading in Mexico and beyond
Bringing LATAM markets together
As one of the leading asset managers in Latin America and a pioneer in e-trading, SURA Investments* sought a global partner...
Exclusive: How Bloomberg bagged Broadway when ION could not
Bloomberg’s recent agreement to acquire execution management system (EMS) provider Broadway Technology, raised some eyebrows within the front office universe.
Broadway had previously been the...
Big names out at BGC
Interdealer broker BGC Partners has made a wave of job cuts, as announced in April, which combined with recent departures has removed several heads...
China focus: The outstanding debt of defaulters
Concern around issuer defaults in China is clearly based upon good evidence; our chart this week from S&P Global Ratings shows the annual growth...
Aité: Buy-side desk sophistication is driving EMS innovation
A new report by analyst firm Aité, entitled, ‘OMS/EMS Convergence in the Cloud: Better Together’, author Spencer Mindlin has identified two major trends in...
TransFICC: Technology in the spotlight
RFQ growth and DORA compel firms to focus on system capacity, high performance, complex workflow automation, and disaster recovery (DR).
The fixed income market structure...
Five ideas from FILS for buy-side traders
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit US kicked off on Monday 9 June in Washington DC, with the buy-side traders’ day. While no reporting is...
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...
Complex environment requires multi-model approach to data science
In fixed income, the most effective investment and trading models can be those built to withstand uncertainty. Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit...
Key trends in emerging markets debt issuance in 2024
Emerging market debt is seeing the effects of government reforms in both democracies and autocracies this year, with stability being the watch word for...
FILS USA 2022: Boosting automation and innovation
The attention of buy-side portfolio managers and traders at the FILS conference in Nashville last week was focused on ways to better manage inefficiency...
