Missing liquidity – Zen and the art of liquidity maintenance
Regulators cannot find the liquidity problem that traders see daily, threatening to set rules for game ‘A’, when game ‘B’ is played out in the markets. Chris...
Viewpoint : Best execution in derivatives : Liam Huxley
Taking the proper steps
The DESK speaks to Liam Huxley, CEO of Cassini Systems about best execution in derivatives.
How well developed is the best execution process...
Can retail order flow impact institutional trading?
A new trend or only a one-off? Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub & Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, talk...
Tannenbaum leads EMEA CIB at BofA as IB fees slip
Jeff Tannenbaum has been named head of EMEA corporate and investment banking at Bank of America. He is based in London.
Bank of America reported...
Clearlake Capital and Motive Partners to acquire BETA+ from LSEG
Private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Motive Partners have agreed to acquire the BETA+ assets from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), encompassing the...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
VedBrat named global head of trading for BlackRock
Supurna VedBrat, currently deputy head of trading and co-head for Electronic Trading & Market Structure at asset manager BlackRock will become global head of...
Getting better liquidity through efficient trading
Several new and evolving trends are providing access to pricing and liquidity for buy-side firms, as Olivier Cajfinger, managing director and head of global...
Danmarks Nationalbank now centrally clears repos at Eurex
Danmarks Nationalbank is now actively trading and centrally clearing repo transactions at derivatives market operator Eurex, which cites the onboarding of the first Nordic...
Coalition Greenwich: Asian bond markets see electronic trading adoption accelerate
New analysis by research firm Coalition Greenwich has found that, while much of the e-trading growth in Asia to date has come via relatively...
ICE: Optimizing the data pipeline for buy-side trading desks
Buy-side bond traders can enhance execution through a flexible data offering.
The DESK spoke with Mark Heckert, ICE’s Chief Operating Officer of Fixed Income...
MarketAxess: Blockbusting Part 4 – Block Execution in US HG
In the latest of MarketAxess' Blockbusting series, our research team explores liqiudity profiles of block-sized RFQ trades between $1M- $10M on MarketAxess across a...
