Build your own EMS
Frustration with commercial front office technology is leading major buy-side firms to build execution capabilities.
Buy-side spend on order management and execution management systems (O/EMS)...
Buy side issues framework to standardise bond issuance
The Credit Roundtable, a buy-side lobby group for bondholder protection has issued an ‘Investment Grade Primary Best Practices Framework’ designed to improve bond issuance.
The...
New senior trader at Nordea Asset Management
Mariana Olsson has joined Nordea Asset Management as senior trader. Olsson is highly experienced in the fixed income markets, having worked across the buy-...
Reviews of MiFID II transparency raise concerns
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launched consultations on 3 February 2020 for the regime for non-equity instrument systematic internalisers (SIs), venues that...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : UBS Bond Port
Adopting an agency approach has allowed UBS to deliver a service that has eluded many other banks via Bond Port.
As a result, the...
FIMSAC: MiFID II shows flaws in ‘equitisation’ of bond markets
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Europe’s revamped Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) legislation MiFID II carries ideas from the equity markets into other markets but...
Seeing through the pricing mirage
Traders and PMs found real value in using axes over onscreen prices during the recent liquidity crisis.
Neptune’s streaming of dealer axes continues to grow in value...
Disruption without interruption
David Parker, Head of MTS Markets International (MMI) discusses tapping into the benefits of fixed income trading technology.
Technological advancements are quietly – and sometimes...
Bond market growth slumped in 2018
By Pia Hecher.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Data Indices, the information provider, has reported that the total outstanding debt across global bond markets only grew by...
Odd-lot bond case alleges pressure on Bloomberg and collusion
In the US Southern District Court of New York, a class-action lawsuit has been brought against a group of banks, alleging that since 1...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : Bloomberg
Bloomberg has a strong position as data provider, interface into the market and a trading venue.
The ubiquitous terminal allows it to build new services...
