On the DESK: Making traders integral to the investment process
Sonali Pier explains how a trader can stand out, and be given a sense of owning the investment process through leadership.
How is trading built...
Technology: The real reason you cannot get a new trading system
Lynn Strongin Dodds investigates the barriers to adopting new technology.
Technological advances may be developing at breakneck speed but many of the barriers of adoption...
Data: Are you part of the data disenfranchised?
Where some firms advocate ‘democratising’ data others struggle to capture, process or access data which is crucial to supporting the business.
Creating access to data,...
Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Viewpoint: A deep, broad stream of data
Deutsche Börse is quenching the thirst of innovators with a flow of data from source, reaching across assets and markets.
Anya van den Berg, vice...
Viewpoint: Technology and the evolution of fixed income trading
Steve Toland, co-founder TransFICC
The fixed income and derivatives market is evolving, rapidly migrating away from the phone onto electronic venues. Electronic trading satisfies the...
Neptune 2.0 – How the new platform will deliver better investment and trading
Axe distribution service, Neptune, is evolving through a transformation of underlying technology, elevating its services to a new level.
Neptune’s CEO, John ‘Coach’ Robinson, and...
Industry viewpoint: Forging fixed income’s future
How technology is enabling data-driven execution and analytics.
In recent years, the electronification of fixed income (FI) markets has been followed by the development of...
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...
The Agency Broker Hub | An open gateway into financial markets
By Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, Head of Market Hub, and Barbara Valbuzzi, CFA, Head of Market Strategy, IMI CIB Division, Intesa Sanpaolo.
In recent years the sellside...
