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...
Major concerns raised about repo
By Flora McFarlane.
Several buy-side practitioners have voiced warnings about the outlook for the ‘broken’ repo market, warning that European regulators needed to address the...
Exclusive: Karim Awenat promoted at Invesco
Karim Awenat has been promoted to head of EMEA and APAC macro trading at Invesco, which has assets under management of US$1.6 trillion. Awenat...
FILS 2024: “The key to delivering innovation”
Collaboration between humans and technology, between humans, and across businesses is essential to strengthening and developing fixed income markets in Europe, panellists at this...
KfW issues first digital Euro commercial paper via Onbrane
Bond issuance platform, Onbrane, has onboarded KfW, the national development bank of Germany, and processed the first KfW's first Euro commercial paper via Onbrane’s...
Buy-side firms warn on herding effect of QE
By Aulia Beg.
Portfolio managers have expressed concern about the ‘herding’ behaviour within the investment community, resulting from central banks’ quantitative easing (QE) programmes.
In a...
Market Structure: New risk and liquidity in the US Treasury market
Significant changes in counterparties and market structure have transformed US Treasury market activity.
Dealer-to-client trading has overtaken interdealer markets in volume traded according to analyst...
Predicting the future by looking at the past
Mark Pumfrey, Liquidnet.
Mark Pumfrey, Head of EMEA, Liquidnet says that drawing on past experiences can provide some guidance as to how a cause will...
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency say traders
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency and will potentially create tiered access to market information, says Juan Landazabal, global head of fixed income...
SEI taps IMTC for fixed income portfolio management system
SEI, a provider of investment and technology solutions, will utilise IMTC’s fixed income portfolio management system to provide custom solutions to its clients.
The IMTC...
Ediphy launches automated bond liquidity discovery tool
Fixed income technology provider Ediphy has launched a tool, Liquidity Checker, which allows fixed income market participants to automate the monitoring of bond liquidity....
Change is jangling money market funds
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the impact of liquidity and settlement reforms.
Regulatory reform, which has been a very long time coming in the US$4.46...
