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...
Getting the measure of sell-side portfolio trading
In its recent report on investment banking activity in 2020, analyst firm Coalition observed that there had been substantial growth in sell-side portfolio trading,...
Viewpoint: Tapping the expanding universe of credit futures and options
Cboe has launched options on Cboe iBoxx iShares Corporate Bond Index futures, and widened its trading hours to further expand the user base and...
State Street and FactSet partner to support better data management
State Street and FactSet have partnered to integrate State Street Alpha and FactSet to support streamlining of data flows across the front, middle and...
What’s all the fuss about… the US Treasury market?
Who is kicking up a fuss about US government bonds?
A new paper published by Darrell Duffie for the Jackson Hole Symposium entitled ‘Resilience redux...
E-trading ‘outpaced’ voice for some traders in liquidity crisis
The market has evolved valuable alternatives to traditional dealer liquidity.
Electronic trading was tested in the March 2020 sell-off, and it held up well. But, most...
TD Securities becomes LCH SwapAgent member
TD Securities is now live as a LCH SwapAgent member, the first Canadian bank member, bringing membership up to 44 from across 12 countries.
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The data puzzle
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structure, Market Hub at Banca IMI outlines the impact of regulation and the importance of data in a...
Fund location in a passive world
As hurricane Irma smashed into the British Virgin Islands (BVI) the headlines were correctly focused on the human impact. Yet in the financial markets...
Bilateral electronic bond trading gains ground with UBS AM and JP Morgan’s FlexTrade connection
FlexTrade Systems, the execution and order management system (EOMS) provider has facilitated a direct electronic execution between UBS Asset Management and JP Morgan in...
GreySpark: Buyer’s guide for cross-asset e-trading tools sets new expectations
Analyst firm GreySpark has released a new report on vendor-provided cross-asset e-trading solutions as a buyer’s guide to help traders, resetting expectations for the...
MeTheMoneyShow : The ‘special’ relationship tested by derivatives trading
In this podcast Dan Barnes discusses with Lynn Strongin Dodds the UK’s overtures to the US in getting access to securities and derivatives trading;...
