Tradeweb expands multi-asset package trading
Tradeweb has launched multi-asset package trading for USD-denominated swaps, following the success of the product in Europe.
The functionality allows institutional users of Tradeweb’s swap...
Trumid: Portfolio trading comes of age
For an institutional investment manager that needs to add or reduce risk in its corporate bond portfolio, being able to trade a custom basket...
FILS USA: Growing disparity in liquidity ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’
Panellists at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders Summit agreed that industry collaboration, experimentation and greater competition are needed to improve liquidity across the fixed...
Mizuho issues green bond in continued sustainability drive
Mizuho Financial Group has issued a €500 million green bond, part of its core business theme of sustainability and innovation.
Funds raised by the issuance...
FILS in Barcelona: What a T+1 world will look like for fixed income
At FILS 2023, Stephanie Fraser of Baillie Gifford and Katia Felina, head of post-trade product at Bloomberg, discussed the future in both Europe and...
Research: Fixed Income TCA Survey 2022
Better integration into trading workflow
The DESK’s execution research survey into fixed income TCA 2022.
Our research took in 40 major asset management firms’ use...
Focus resources on fixed income TCA, industry urged
By Joel Clark.
Market participants and technology providers must focus their intelligence and resources on developing robust transaction cost analysis (TCA) for fixed income, in...
Optimising execution in Qatari and Kuwaiti bond sell-off
Buy-side traders need to carefully manage order execution when a bond market moves into or out of an index, as the large directional moves...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused on new...
Bond issuance standardisation boosted by FMSB
Market participants have published final guidelines that clarify expected behaviour during the new issue process for fixed income bonds in Europe.
A series of measures...
TransFICC opens office in New York
TransFICC, the provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has opened its new office in New York, staffed...
Massaad Scott leaves Nomura as new London prop desk closes, again
Sources have confirmed to The Desk that Pamela Massaad Scott has left Nomura following the closure of the bank’s proprietary trading desk in London,...
