The data puzzle
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structure, Market Hub at Banca IMI outlines the impact of regulation and the importance of data in a...
CME to launch rates futures based on Mexico’s F-TIIE
Derivative and rates market operator, CME Group, is to introduce interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight TIIE funding rate...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 26 (Women in Finance Awards 2020)
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss some of the highlights of the sixth annual Markets Media, Women in Finance Awards.
To view the virtual awards...
On the DESK : Dwayne Middleton : Morgan Stanley
The modern trader needs an all-rounder mentality, considerable flexibility and the power to be a decision maker.
Dwayne Middleton is head of US fixed income...
Uncertainty persists around process trades
A standardised approach to handling process trades would better support dealers. By David Wigan.
In mid-February, the European Securities Market Association (ESMA) published a formal...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Will the EC ban electronic bilateral bond trading?
The broadening definition of ‘multilateral’ is at risk of capturing all trading if traders do not speak out.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
The winners in the primary market
In the bond issuance markets, there have been a few subtle changes in the top five most successful banks for syndication, and less subtle...
Copeman joins Federated Hermes as senior credit trader
Shaun Copeman has joined Federated Hermes as a senior credit trader, having left Fidelity Investments in April after eight years. Copeman adds to a...
Juggling the growth in CUSIPs
If the population of a country increased by 50% since 2014, you would think a housing crisis was likely.
Yet in the year The DESK...
How to get a better OMS
Electronification of bond trading makes order/execution management systems vital, yet traders feel they are having to push providers to keep pace. Dan Barnes reports.
If...
Liberty Street Economics: Active trading could drive loan standardisation
By Flora McFarlane.
A Liberty Street Economics report analysing the US secondary loan market has found that increased trading and liquidity will potentially standardise loans.
The...
