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...
Mapfre adopts Aladdin for execution, investment management
Mapfre AM, the asset management division of Spanish insurance company Mapfre which holds €57 billion in assets under management, has adopted BlackRock’s investment management...
Liquidnet: 39% of buy-side firms rethinking use of TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Traditional transaction cost analysis (TCA) could be a casualty in the shifting landscape of pre- and post-MiFID II regulation, with 39% of...
Platform volumes in May up on 2019 levels
Market operator MarketAxess has seen a monthly trading volume for May 2020 of US$520 billion consisting of $229 billion in credit volume and $291...
Me The Money Show – Green Bonds
Me The Money Show Episode 17 from Markets Media on Vimeo.
Investors are ramping up demand for green bonds, with issuers seeing a positive appetite...
People: Hunter leaves MarketAxess; Louchard at AXA IM
Nichola Hunter has left MarketAxess as head of its rates business. Hunter joined the firm in 2020 when it acquired government bond marketplace LiquidityEdge,...
Interview : Grant Wilson & Byron Cooper-Fogarty : Neptune Networks
Neptune’s new approach to supporting execution
Since launching in 2016 Neptune has grown significantly, enabling dealer to client exchange of axes between bond traders, and...
White paper: Is bond trading on the cusp of a change?
A white paper published by Flow Traders and WBR Research* has identified several key indicators that execution quality is being enhanced by new ways...
Tradeweb founder and Broadridge to launch bond trading venue
Broadridge Financial Solutions has conducted live trades on a new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven corporate bond trading platform, LTX, developed in partnership with Jim Toffey,...
Shape the way you access The DESK in 2025
In 2025 we will be introducing proprietary data tools to allow our readers to research bond issuers and issuance activity.
To support our independent sourcing...
Asset managers could avoid tying up collateral under new uncleared margin rules
The majority of asset managers dragged into new uncleared margin requirements over the next two years could avoid tying up capital altogether, but still...
July 2023: Tradeweb sees total credit ADV jump 30% YoY in July driven by...
At Tradeweb, in July 2023, fully electronic US credit ADV was up 34.8% YoY to US$4.8 billion and European credit ADV was up 38.6%...
