Tag: BlackRock

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the impact of liquidity and settlement reforms. Regulatory reform, which has been a very long time coming in the US$4.46...

By Pia Hecher. BlackRock has reported that 38% of buy-side firms intend to increase fixed income allocations in 2019, up from 29% last year. The firm’s...

By Chris Hall. Political uncertainties will continue to guarantee challenging conditions for investors in Italian government bonds well into 2019, according to speakers on Thursday’s...

By Chris Hall. Balancing man and machine will be the critical success factor for buy-side trading desks, delegates were told in Thursday’s head trader keynote...

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...

Return of muni futures shows the market’s got moxie. The municipal bond market is addressing its problems head on and in doing so, defying...

Will buy-side firms build the OMS they need? Complaints about order management system performance still dog the fixed income markets, increasing the likelihood of in-house...

Cboe, IHS Markit and BlackRock Join Forces to Launch First U.S. Corporate Bond Index Futures Source: Cboe Global Markets, Inc. May 16, 2018, 08:30 ET CHICAGO, May 16, 2018...

Greater dependence vs reduced choice The pipeline of growth is returning after MiFID II, with reliance on specific platforms increasing. In 2017 the appetite for onboarding...

Automated trading and derivatives are changing the way US Treasuries are traded, exposing the buy side to high-frequency trading strategies. Chris Hall reports. If big...