Treasuries HFT hack test results released
The impact of a simulated cyberattack on a high-frequency trading (HFT) firm in the US Treasury (UST) market has been released by the Treasury...
Tabb: Derivatives boosting access to liquidity into 2019
By Pia Hecher.
Analyst firm TABB Group reports the number of market participants using corporate bond index futures and bond index total return swaps (TRSs)...
Bloomberg makes its real-time B-PIPE data feed available on AWS
Bloomberg's flagship real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, has been available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving clients access to the same...
Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess
Erik Tham has joined MarketAxess as head of Private Banking, for Benelux and Switzerland, leaving his position as executive director at UBS Wealth Management,...
“Tourists” in emerging markets challenge liquidity
Emerging markets have had a volatile year, intensifying the pressure on asset managers gain better access to liquidity and pricing. Pinebridge Investments’ Chris Perryman,...
Python eats traders
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...
Concern over data dominates corporate bond discussions
Limited access to data is impeding quantitative analysis of best execution for corporate bonds, leading to a need for more qualitative analysis for many...
Euro swaps clearing: hope for the best, prepare for the worst
By Joel Clark.
As the UK’s exit from the European Union edges closer, concern over the vexed question of clearing of euro-denominated swaps has intensified,...
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...
AGI’s Böss: Margin compression and frustration with regulators
Doing more with less, and frustration with regulatory initiatives are the biggest stories for buy-side firms said Eric Böss, global head of trading at...
