Global investor confidence rises, European confidence falls
State Street Global Markets has found that, despite recent market fluctuations, the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for May 2022 increased to 97.1,...
On The DESK : Gianluca Minieri, Pioneer Investments
The Greatest Concentration of Risk
Gianluca Minieri has been the global head of trading at Pioneer Investments since 2011, driving reform across trading operations, including...
Credit Indices – Closing the Fixed Income Evolutionary Gap
Fixed income markets are evolving at pace, with smarter electronic trading protocols, more sophisticated, automated investment strategies and a greater availability of useful data.
In...
US vs Europe: The transatlantic divide for corporate bond traders
The DESK examines the different sizes, protocols and feedback traders can use on each side of the Atlantic to execute corporate bond orders.
While US...
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN: Tackling the liquidity challenge head-on
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN are partnering to streamline the process of execution in corporate bonds. By combining liquidity discovery with order matching, the trading...
TransFICC: Q&A with Steve Toland & Judd Gaddie
TransFICC has just launched a new eTrading service which combines a hosted desktop GUI with IRS venue and workflow integration, pricer API, server hosting and...
ICE Data Services: Data in Action
Beneath the surface: Visibility is only as good as your data
By David Varano, ICE Data Services Director, Business Development, and Jaimi Goldberg, ICE Data Services Solutions Specialist,...
Deutsche Börse invests US$10 million in Trumid
By Flora McFarlane.
Deutsche Börse Group has announced a “strategic investment and partnership” with New-York based Trumid, a company that provides an electronic trading network...
FILS 2024: UK rejects industry pressure to move up T+1 implementation date
There are still issues to be ironed out before the UK and Europe can follow the US to T+1, according to speakers at this...
Why buy-side firms are building their own primary market tools
Interoperability is not a competitive issue; clients will build it if platforms do not supply it.
There is not a consensus on who should make the bond...
Swami takes on Singapore markets
Citi has promoted Nathan Swami to head of markets for Singapore, which Citi says is one of its key trading hubs in the APAC...
US credit activity dropped off a cliff in late November
Analysis of US corporate bond market activity has found that trading volumes and counts plummeted going into the final month of the year. A...
