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...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
ICE Bonds sees record notional volume for portfolio trading
Market operator, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has reported record volumes for fixed income portfolio trading during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Over US$1.9 billion in US-based...
FILS USA 2023: Traders test the water with new execution methods
The ability to use new trading protocols can be highly dependent upon the funds that a desk trades for and the types of instruments...
Greenwich Associates: 54% expect increased spend on consolidated data feeds
The onset of the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting the importance of market data infrastructure for both buy-side and sell-side firms, with pricing data feeds...
Securities financing: SFTR threatens smaller players
By Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The delay to the regulation gives market participants more breathing room but they should not get too comfortable. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks...
TP ICAP connects dealers to Liquidnet’s New Issue Trading protocol
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market infrastructure and information provider, is enabling dealers to join the buy-side in placing orders and trade directly on...
Risk – Redemption shock
If funds are not given daily liquidity by the market, can they support daily redemptions for clients? Chris Hall reports.
When pandemic-fuelled panic hit the...
Insight Investment named collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for £1.7 billion longevity swap
Insight Investment, an investment manager with £683 billion (€778.3 billion) assets under management, has been appointed as collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for...
Great Expectations (on rate cuts)
The latest BofA Global Fund Manager Survey has found that 76% of respondents expect two or more Fed cuts in 2024 versus 8% who...
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN: Tackling the liquidity challenge head-on
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN are partnering to streamline the process of execution in corporate bonds. By combining liquidity discovery with order matching, the trading...
FILS USA 2023: Fed has lost investors’ confidence in guidance
The Federal Reserve’s constant mistakes on forward guidance have lost the confidence of some buy-side firms in its ability to predict outlooks.
Speaking at...
