ChatGPT: What are traders asking in Nashville?
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a major topic of conversation at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) in Nashville this year, with its potential...
Tradeweb Q2 revenues up 14%
Tradeweb has released its send quarter financial results, reporting $297.1 million in quarterly revenues, up 13.9% compared to prior year period, and US$1.2 trillion...
Bank of England launches SWES test for bond markets
The Bank of England (BoE) has published the latest phase of the System-wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) with bank and non-bank participants provided a hypothetical...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed income desks see highest buy-side tech spend
Technology spend on buy-side trading desks rose 4% in 2019 from the previous year, to reach US$2.2 million on average, with fixed-income trading desks...
Moody’s: Speculative-grade credit default rate to rise in 2023
Moody’s Investor Services expects the global speculative-grade corporate default rate to rise in 2023 as slowing economic growth, higher input costs and rising interest...
UBS’s Slade announces major changes in DCM team
David Slade, global co-head of leveraged and debt capital markets (LDCM) at UBS has announced in an internal memo, seen by The DESK, that...
European Women in Finance Awards 2023 – The WINNERS!
At a glittering event at the Langham Hotel this evening we celebrated some of Europe's most exceptional women from the world of trading and...
Feedback on Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity Treasury Rates requested by 18 September
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has published a paper along with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Benchmark Administration (IBA) introducing the daily Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity...
BondWave reports volume/liquidity paradox
Trading efficiency has driven down the costs of trading, and supported the ability to find liquidity, despite falling volumes, says BondWave’s Paul Daley, MD...
Intercontinental Exchange makes strategic investment in BondLink
Market operator and data provider InterContinental Exchange (ICE) has made a strategic investment in BondLink, a financial technology company that provides cloud-based debt management...
Bloomberg onboarded over 100 buy-side firms remotely during the pandemic
Bloomberg has reported that more than 100 clients globally implemented its buy-side solutions over the past year, between March 2020 and 2021. During the...
Asteria IM partners with Amundi for portfolio management system and dealing services
Asteria Investment Managers has adopted asset manager Amundi’s portfolio management system, the Amundi Leading Technologies & Operations (ALTO), for all of its assets under...