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...
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Impact of the MiFID II SI assessment delay
Geoffroy Vander Linden, Head of Transparency Solutions, Trax.
On 4 November 2016, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Q&A document outlining their...
Municipal bond traders push for better execution
A standardised framework of processes could emerge from platform providers and regulators to support electronification.
In a market without infrastructure, common standards of behaviour and...
Fixed income platforms buoyed as all-to-all expands
Fixed income electronic trading platform operators have announced record trading volumes in the first quarter of 2017.
MarketAxess, platform operator for dealer-to-client and all-to-all trading...
Market Analysis: Pressure on US dealing desks is changing priorities in 2020
New analysis of market activity this year has observed that while issuance is “racing toward historic annual highs” there is no corresponding increase in...
Measuring digital bond issuance
The use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to issue bonds can tackle several concerns in the debt markets. Firstly, it reduces the fragmented information...
Bond trading boosts BNP Paribas’s FICC revenues
BNP Paribas’s investment bank delivered double digit revenue growth in 2019, with revenues for Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) up by over 30%....
ASEAN exchanges push for sustainability progress
Executives at ASEAN exchanges have agreed on four proof-of-concepts to follow over the next three years, continuing their sustainability initiatives.
The objectives, determined at the...
Industry viewpoint: Optimising 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 and...
Sterling dealers recommend SONIA as alternative to LIBOR
The Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates – a group of major dealers active in sterling interest rate swap markets – has...
A third of US buy-side bond traders see dealer connectivity as priority
Research published by data, analytics and trading systems provider, IHS Markit, has found that 33% of buy-side fixed income traders are assessing direct connecting...
