On The Desk: Paul Squires: On calm and the storm
AXA Investment Managers’ global head of trading & securities financing displays a steady hand as his trading function begins servicing new investment models while...
Liquidnet Primary Markets launches for Europe and US
Liquidnet, the block trading specialist which is part of TP ICAP, has launched its hotly anticipated Liquidnet Primary Markets service, a new offering providing...
Tradeweb integrates Nasdaq U.S. Fixed Income platform
Tradeweb Markets, a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, announced it has achieved the final significant technology...
Boltzbit: The practical application of AI in investment and trading
Asset managers are already able to leverage large language models to boost investment and trading workflows.
The DESK spoke with Yichuan Zhang, chief executive officer...
The cost of liquidity in EM today
A very graphic representation of the cost of liquidity can be seen in the latest data from MarketAxess. It shows that average daily volume...
Coalition Greenwich: Regulation and macro concerns dominate for derivatives users
A new report, ‘Derivatives Market Structure 2024: Focusing on Capital and Workflow Efficiency’, has found that 58% percent of end users of derivatives, and...
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European Women in Finance : Alexandra Boyle : Making a noise
Alexandra Boyle, Head of Client Strategic Group at OpenFin, speaks to Markets Media’s senior writer Shanny Basar about her career, her philosophy and her...
Allegra Berman to leave HSBC
Allegra Berman will leave HSBC at the end of September, according to an internal memo seen by The DESK.
Berman joined the firm in 2013,...
OTCX registers as MTF as UK trading venue perimeter rules begin
Derivatives trading venue OTCX has been registered as a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in the UK, in the week that the UK’s Financial Conduct...
Is US investment grade market-making starting to fray?
In US credit, mean bid/ask spreads are skewing upwards from the median, indicating that a greater proportion of larger spreads are in some cases...
Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April
Market operator Tradeweb has reported average daily volume (ADV) of US$763.4 billion in April across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
