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Dan Barnes

Dan Barnes

Editorial Director

The Editorial Director at Markets Media Europe, Dan strives to become an integral part of traders’ networks by ensuring they are informed and helped by the information we deliver. Dan wrote the world’s first article on predatory trading algorithms in 2004, and has won multiple State Street ‘Journalist of the Year’ awards in several categories. In his spare time, Dan makes longbows.

Latest From Dan Barnes

KC Lam, SGX

SGX anticipates Japanese growth with STIR futures

Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) plans to introduce short-term interest rate futures related to the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate (TONA) and the Singapore Overnight Rate Average (SORA) in H2 2024. Three-month TONA Futures will expand the exchange...

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Victoria Webster, AFME

AFME and IA agree on UK consolidated bond tape

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has reached an agreement with the Investment Association (IA) on a proposal for a future UK post-trade transparency model for corporate and sovereign bonds. The framework aims to optimise...

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JP Morgan restricted from onboarding new venues and fined US$350 million

JP Morgan has been fined US$350 million and may not onboard new trading venues without receiving prior written non-objection from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Fed’s Board of Governors and the Office of the Comptroller of the Curren...

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Lars Salmon: On internal strength

Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets. Lars Salmon is head of fixed income trading for EMEA at Fidelity International. He joined the firm as a senior ...

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Terry Duffy, CEO, CME

CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries

A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing. The news was first reported by the Financial Times, which spoke to Terry Duffy, chief executive of CME Group, at the Futures Indust...

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Aquis selected for Central Bank of Colombia government bond market

Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia, has selected Aquis Exchange to provide technology and support services for Sistema Electrónico de Negociación (SEN), its government bond market. Aquis Technologies, Aquis’ technology and so...

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Exclusive: Karim Awenat promoted at Invesco

Karim Awenat has been promoted to head of EMEA and APAC macro trading at Invesco, which has assets under management of US$1.6 trillion. Awenat was previously head of fixed income trading for London at the firm, having joined the company in 2015. H...

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Balls calls for UK to adopt a more risk-assertive culture

Ed Balls, former economic secretary to the UK Treasury & shadow chancellor, has called for the UK to adopt a risk-positive culture in order to stem the reduction of capital raising in the UK market via the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Speakin...

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