UBS: The client-led dealer driving best execution
Traditional sell-side firms can engage most effectively in fixed income by enabling, rather than pushing, buy-side strategy.
As markets face considerable operational pressure, delivering change...
Ratings & Analysis: Fitch: US bank regulators converging with “informal alignments”
Executive actions have accelerated regulatory consolidation and centralisation between federal US bank regulators, according to Fitch Ratings.
These informal alignments, driven by executive orders rather...
Stanley Sheriff starts trading at Balyasny
Stanley Sheriff has started running risk as a macro portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management in Dubai after having been poached last year from...
QE: A rush for the exit
Fixed income portfolios need to be reassessed in preparation for the end of asset purchasing programmes. Dan Barnes reports.
Quantitative easing has wound up an...
Exclusive: Man Group’s proprietary OEMS highlights potential for systematic volume growth
Man Group is now live on an internally developed order and execution management system (OEMS), to trade across asset classes, currently covering corporate credit,...
Splinters of a market
While liquidity in US investment grade (IG) markets has been holding up relatively well, MarketAxess data shows us that the past month has seen...
LedgerEdge selects Eventus for DLT-based corporate bond platform
LedgerEdge, the corporate bond trading platform being developed on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has selected Validus, a real-time trade surveillance platform built by Eventus...
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“Fundamentally flawed […] inadequate”; SIFMA slams SEC’s best execution proposal
In a recent post from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), former chief economist and director of the Division of Economic and...
Bloomberg Terminal releases document search and analysis feature
Bloomberg is expanding the artificial intelligence capabilities of the Bloomberg Terminal with a document search and analysis solution.
The new service is expected to allow...
Hedge fund AI vehicle wins investment from Nomura
By Vineet Naik.
Nomura, the investment bank, has announced that it is investing in AIM2, a venture specialising in creating artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for...
Julia Perroni joins Houlihan Lokey’s capital markets business
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has named Julia Perroni as a managing director in its capital markets business.
Based out of Paris, Perroni will head...
Primary markets: The choices facing buy-side traders
Ted Douglas, Co-Head of Global Fixed Income, Capital Formation at IHS Markit spoke to The DESK about the dynamics of bond issuance for the...
