Amy Koch Flynn named head of trading for strategic advisors at Fidelity
Fidelity Investments has appointed Amy Koch Flynn as head of trading for strategic advisors. She is based in Boston.
Koch Flynn has more than 25...
SEC appoints six new Investor Advisory Committee members
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added six new members to its Investor Advisory Committee.
The new members, who will serve four-year terms,...
JWG: Cloud is “large systemic technology risk blind spot”
JWG, the regulatory think tank, has published a research paper ‘Risk control for a digitized financial sector’ which claims to identify a large systemic...
MeTheMoneyShow : Retail therapy with Shanny Basar
In this podcast Dan Barnes discusses 'retail therapy' with Shanny Basar, who recounts the soothing sound of a congressional hearing into retail trading and...
Bond pricing battle shutters Nordic funds
Several Nordic fund managers have been shuttering fixed income funds, mainly in the corporate bond space, to allow them to get prices from banks...
Daniel Mayston leaves BlackRock
Daniel Mayston has resigned from BlackRock after nearly 20 years at the world’s largest asset manager, according to sources close to the company.
Mayston was...
Primary market consolidation as NowCM acquires Nivaura’s IT and IP
NowCM Group CEO and Founder Robert Koller says the firm has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire all digital and IP assets...
What is crushing the bid-ask spread in US IG?
The bid-ask spread in US investment grade credit has been falling this year, regardless of the trading volume activity.
Notional traded in the US...
When banks go bust holding boring bonds
**This article will appear in full in the next issue of The DESK**
Government bonds are described as a 'risk-free' instrument, on the basis that...
Me The Money Show – Episode Five
John Dantona, editor of Traders magazine and Dan Barnes, editorial director of Markets Media Europe, discuss the latest news in the cryptocurrency trading space,...
Slow-moving regulation hindering EMIR 3 preparation, industry says
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its regulatory technical standards (RTS) for EMIR 3, after market participants expressed frustration that the...
Tradeweb sees continued growth
Tradeweb has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in November was US$693 billion, an increase of 22% year-over-year, with continued broad-based growth in core...
