MARKET NEWS
S&P Global Market Intelligence boosts muni market coverage
S&P Global Market Intelligence’s integrated market intelligence platform now covers almost 6 million securities in the municipal market.
The firm has added 4.6 million municipal...
Uncertainty on impact of US debt ceiling
Members of the Treasury Market Practices Group (TPMG) were unable to come to a consensus on the impact of the US debt limit being...
April Day leads AFME capital markets
AFME has named April Day as head of capital markets.
Based in London, she replaces Rick Watson, who announced his retirement in July 2024.
Day has...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
Wellington targets US wealth clients with interval fund
Responding to growing interest in alternative solutions, Wellington Management has launched its first interval fund.
Through the Wellington Global Multi-Strategy Fund, Wellington aims to provide...
Finsight acquires Credit Flow Research
Capital markets technology and market data firm Finsight has expanded its US fixed income market provision with the acquisition of Credit Flow Research.
The acquisition...
FEATURES
Is electronic trading levelling out the year-end liquidity shortfall?
Concern about liquidity shortfalls at year end could be alleviated by electronic market makers say traders, and the data seems to back them up.
A...
Matt Howell: Building a centre of excellence for derivatives trading
Matt Howell reveals how T Rowe Price optimised its derivatives trading capabilities ahead of the expected boom in trading activity this year.
How are the...
US vs Europe: The transatlantic divide for corporate bond traders
The DESK examines the different sizes, protocols and feedback traders can use on each side of the Atlantic to execute corporate bond orders.
While US...
When not to use portfolio trading
Portfolio trading cannot please all of the people all of the time.
The success of portfolio trading (PT) as a protocol has taken bond markets...
The DESK: Systematic trading
The DESK discusses effective systematic trading, the benefits to end investors, and the skills needed to create and run systematic workflows with Chris Minck,...
Primary ignition – at both ends
Politics are being sidelined in the battle for efficiency in primary markets for buyers and for issuers
The top operational priority for buy-side traders in...
PROFILES
RESEARCH
Investor Demand: How Trump tariffs could affect investor appetite for dollar,...
UBS House View, published by Mark Haefele, Global Wealth Management chief investment officer; Brian Rose, senior US economist, CIO America; Jon Gordon, strategist, UBS...
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Overbond, SS&C Eze partner to provide AI bond trading analytics
Overbond, a provider of AI-driven data and analytics and trade automation solutions for the global fixed income markets, has partnered with SS&C Eze to...
Announcement – The DESK Q1 2020
The Q1 issue of The DESK is due from the printer and under the current exceptional circumstances we are happy to re-direct your copy...
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...
Reimagining RFQ for Credit: The building blocks to a truly flexible approach
By Chioma Okoye, Managing Director, European Institutional Credit, Tradeweb
Innovation, automation and collaboration – the key to returning operational capacity back to the trader in order...
Cartel cases in SSA market continue as Rabobank fined €26.6m
The European Commission has fined Rabobank €26.6 million for participating in a cartel trading Euro-denominated bonds
The Commission alleges that between 2006 and 2016 Rabobank...
Duffy remains confident in face of FMX challenge
Despite record results, one topic dominated CME’s Q2 earnings call earlier this week: FMX.
CEO Terry Duffy has been vocal from the outset about his...
On The DESK: Chris Perryman: Boxing clever through emerging markets
Chris Perryman combines the brains to integrate quant strategies with the brawn of strong relationships ensuring PineBridge delivers best execution for investors.
Biography: Chris Perryman...
Adaptive expands its ‘Operate’ offering, opens Asia office
Electronic trading tech provider Adaptive has expanded its 'Operate' offering to a round-the-clock service and opened its first office in Asia.
Matt Barrett, Adaptive...
Derivatives : Migrating benchmarks : Dan Barnes
LIBOR: WHEN TO JUMP ON THE SOFR
The transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to overnight indexed swap rates is moving, but when...
FILS USA 2023: Traders test the water with new execution methods
The ability to use new trading protocols can be highly dependent upon the funds that a desk trades for and the types of instruments...
Dan Burke joins MarketAxess
MarketAxess Holdings has appointed Dan Burke as global head of emerging markets. He reports to Raj Paranandi, chief operating officer for EMEA and APAC....
Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
A new study by analyst firm, Acuiti, released in a whitepaper entitled The Growing Need to Invest in Derivatives Post-Trade, sponsored by Broadridge Financial...
