FILS 2018: Advent of AI sees traders reskill, retool
By Chris Hall.
Buy-side traders risk redundancy and irrelevance if they do not adapt to the opportunities for automation of fixed-income execution provided by new...
Biscardi joins MarketAxess
Experienced bond trader Tom Biscardi has been appointed senior open trading specialist at MarketAxess.
The trading platform reported US$42.9 billion in total average daily volume...
EC fines Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse for bond...
The European Commission (EC) has fined Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse €28.5 million for breaching EU antitrust rules, as...
BloombergGPT launches
Bloomberg has released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
This large language model (LLM)...
Liquidnet: 39% of buy-side firms rethinking use of TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Traditional transaction cost analysis (TCA) could be a casualty in the shifting landscape of pre- and post-MiFID II regulation, with 39% of...
E-trading stumbles in US credit
E-trading in high yield (HY) US credit reduced year-on-year (YoY) in February, despite rising average daily trade sizes.
After taking almost a third of traded...
Prickett resurfaces at Citi
Citi has named Tom Prickett as EMEA head of G10 rates. He is based in London.
In the newly created role, Prickett is responsible for...
Lead : Best execution : Dan Barnes
The best execution conundrum
Market structure, risk trading and the nature of time-limited instruments make reporting of best execution for bonds a challenge. Dan Barnes...
Meet the consolidated tape contenders
Europe’s development of a consolidated tape for trading data now has clear front runners and benefits.
Three firms have confirmed they will compete to be...
US Credit: Liquidity costs trending down
The bid-ask spread in US high yield trading is falling again having suffered an uptick in December, according to MarketAxess Trax, which tracks trading...
Propellant.digital reports rapid uptake of its bond data analytics
Vincent Grandjean, CEO of analytics software provider Propellant.digital, is pleased with the firm’s progress to date.
“We are live with clients and bearing in mind...
Barclays bounces with strong Q1 trading revenues
Fixed income trading revenues spiked in the first three months of the year at Barclays, putting the bank significantly ahead of the majority with...
