Changing the liquidity dynamic
US treasury traders are seeing enormous shifts in historical volume and trading patterns. Nichola Hunter, CEO of trading venue LiquidityEdge believes that asset managers...
Exclusive: Mediobanca’s rapidly growing credit business adds Marco Cravero as head of flow
Marco Cravero has joined Mediobanca in Milan as executive director and head of fixed income flow, as the bank seeks to expand its existing...
Glue42 aims to boost buy and sell-side internal collaboration
Glue42, the desktop tools integration specialist, has released a new version of its open-source platform, Glue42 Core. The new release, version 2.0, is designed...
MacIndoe leaves Millennium Advisors
Fixed income trader Michael MacIndoe has left Millennium Advisors after seven years with the company.
MacIndoe has been in the industry for 15 years, with...
New ECB harmonisation rules push for capital markets union
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published harmonised rules and arrangements for the mobilisation and management of collateral in Eurosystem credit operations in its...
BlackRock veteran Mitchelson to join Bloomberg
Multiple sources have confirmed that Rob Mitchelson, formerly Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) head of fixed income and FX trading at BlackRock, is to...
OMS, EMS or something in between?
Many firms are considering merging their order management systems (OMSs) and execution management systems (EMSs), but oversimplification could be counterproductive, delegates at this year’s...
What FILS delegates want
With the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) Europe upon us, The DESK has been speaking to attendees to discern what topics are most eagerly...
SoftSolutions’ new testing-as-a-service environment live
SoftSolutions, the fixed income trading technology provider, has announced that a major Scandinavian bank is completing testing of the latest version of nexRates using...
In uncertain times, corporate bond traders seek certainty of execution
Portfolio trading has emerged as a go-to mechanism to buy or sell many bonds at once.
Traders want the best price - but they also...
Broadridge patents underlying BondGPT mechanism
Broadridge has been awarded a US patent for the mechanism behind its BondGPT and BondGPT+ solutions.
Through the solutions, multiple AI agents automatically retrieve and...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
