The DESK BENCHmark 2017: Mid-sized buy-side have diverse trading
Mid-sized asset managers champion electronic trading - The DESK’s BENCHmark research has found mid-sized firms use electronic trading and a wider range of brokers than...
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Predicting the future by looking at the past
Mark Pumfrey, Liquidnet.
Mark Pumfrey, Head of EMEA, Liquidnet says that drawing on past experiences can provide some guidance as to how a cause will...
Aité-Novarica: Fixed income EMSs expecting major growth this year
A new report by Colby Jenkins, strategic advisor at analyst firm Aité-Novarica, finds that fixed income execution management system (EMS) vendor projections for growth...
ICAP and the buy side – the beginning of something?
A consensus-led approach has allowed the interdealer broker to overcome political challenges, as brokers open a channel for their investment management clients. Dan Barnes...
Shielding from exploding issuance
US fixed income markets saw issuance in Q1 2024 hit US$2.5 trillion according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), an increase...
KNG names Omar Ghalloudi head of emerging market trading
KNG Securities has appointed former Credit Suisse illiquid bond specialist Omar Ghalloudi as head of emerging market (EM) trading.
Corporate and distressed bond ‘expert’ Ghalloudi...
Tharshan joins Citi credit trading team
Tharsh Tharshan has joined Citi as a credit trader. He is based in London.
Citi reported revenues of US$81.1 billion in 2024, up 3% from...
Broadridge’s DLT repo platform volumes boom
Volumes on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform jumped from US$1 trillion to US$5.9 trillion between August 2024 and 2025, a 490% year-on-year increase.
DLR...
Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
By Flora McFarlane.
A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
CSDR mandatory buy-in delay welcomed
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Banca IMI, Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Since the financial crisis waves of new regulation and the need...
Gensler “Just not feeling it”
Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and self-styled ‘Market Daddy’ has said he will pull back on most of...
What’s all the fuss about… the US Treasury market?
Who is kicking up a fuss about US government bonds?
A new paper published by Darrell Duffie for the Jackson Hole Symposium entitled ‘Resilience redux...
