New SEC Fixed Income Committee to cover liquidity issues this week
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee, formed in November 2017, will hold its first meeting on...
James Wallin: On valuing the desk
Proving and demonstrating the value of the trading desk at the very highest levels of the organisation creates a virtuous circle of investment and...
Greenwich: Data analytics now more valued than market structure knowledge
Three out of four capital markets professionals say data analysis will be the most valued skill on trading desks over the next five years,...
valantic integrates Overbond’s pricing and liquidity scoring into dealer FICC trading systems
Overbond’s COBI-Pricing LIVE has been integrated into valantic FSA ’s electronic fixed income, currency and commodity (eFICC) trading systems. COBI-Pricing LIVE is a customisable...
Catton promoted at BlackRock; Shah joins DB, Framjee poached by Morgan Stanley
Dean Catton has been named head of European credit trading at BlackRock following the departure of Nikhil Sethi. His new position puts him in...
Smaller proportion of US Treasuries e-traded than previously estimated
Levels of e-trading in US treasuries in dealer-to-dealer (D2D) and dealer-to-client (D2C) markets have come into sharper focus thanks to data collected by FINRA...
Buy-side desks swing extra US$2.1 million into fixed income trading technology
By Sobia Hamid.
On average buy-side fixed income desks pushed US$2.1 million of additional budget into technology in 2016, according to new research from analyst...
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)...
Coalition Greenwich sees US bond trading volumes falling in Q2
A report by market analysis form Coalition Greenwich, part of S&P Global, has found that after an active first quarter, corporate bond trading slowed...
Worsening credit outlook does not hurt credit trading
The corporate bond market has stood up to the test of tariffs – but will the corporate environment? As earnings season kicks in, companies...
FILS in Barcelona: If the future is futures, what happens when the market is...
Moving liquidity from the spot or cash markets into futures is raising some concern amongst market participants. In FX, trading volume on the Thomson...
Greenwich: Nearly half of bond trading desk budgets now spent on technology
New research by Coalition Greenwich has found that the proportion of budget for fixed income trading desks spent on technology grew to 46% in...
