Securities Financing : India : Lynn Strongin Dodds
India’s lacklustre corporate bond market gets a boost.
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at government initiatives and stock exchanges efforts to bring the market to life.
The...
How banks slash the cost of managing market fragmentation
A smart application of hardware, cloud and open source technology makes for efficient trading systems. The complexity of the fixed income market should not...
Rules & Ratings: Securitisation reforms “stifling” for CLOs, LMA says
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has struck back at the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) positive initial assessment of post-2008 securitisation reforms, stating that the...
Is portability via indirect clearing under threat?
As sell-side relationships are harder to come by, indirect clearing offers hope for smaller buy-side firms, but without mandated asset segregation many may find...
Buy-side profile: Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones, head of fixed income and lead manager Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund talks about building a strong...
Tom Porcelli named PGIM Fixed Income chief US economist
PGIM Fixed Income, a firm With US$793 billion in assets under management (AUM), has named Tom Porcelli chief US economist, effective 6 July 2023....
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : Profiles
Bloomberg
Bloomberg has the highest penetration of any provider into the buy-side fixed income trading desk. This year has seen it significantly revise charges to...
Subscriber
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...
ESMA clarifies CTP exclusion criteria documents
ESMA has clarified the documents that firms bidding to be consolidated tape providers (CTP) must provide during the application process.
In the first stage of...
What do shorter durations imply for trading?
Data from Dealogic shows that the average maturity for newly issued bonds has been falling in 2023 relative to recent years, with the current...
Strong YoY growth in US rates volumes
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) for US rates dropped between April and May as uncertainties around trade policies and tariffs muted demand, but were...
Opportunities in e-trading credit derivatives
Credit futures and swaps complement each other by providing investors with different but interconnected tools to manage credit risk, hedge exposures, and to gain...
