One desk for multi-asset low-touch trading
If a single desk can trade all liquid instruments for an asset manager, it could see significant cost and process efficiencies. Lynn Strongin Dodds...
B2Scan closes down
B2Scan, the pre-trade liquidity data platform for bond markets, has shut down after eight years. The CEO and founder of B2Scan, Frédéric Semour, was...
Middleton appointed global head of FI trading at T Rowe Price
Dwayne Middleton has been named the global head of fixed income trading at T Rowe Price, the US asset manager with US$1.12 trillion of...
Traders call time on outsized European market open hours
Buy- and sell-side traders have called for Europe to review its equity market open periods, which at eight and half hours is over 30%...
Björkman joins Credit Suisse as the head of execution for fixed income
Mikael Björkman has joined Credit Suisse’s private bank as the head of Execution in Fixed Income, joining from UBS’ private bank where he was...
On The DESK: Trading and Technology collaborating for the future
Erik Tumasz and Josh Grodin of Wellington Management on honing trillion-dollar Wellington Management’s technology-driven edge in trading.
How do you structure your trading desks?
Josh Grodin:...
Are your traders for hire?
Growing numbers of asset managers are hiring third parties to provide their trading desks. Dan Barnes investigates.
Fixed income funds are under increasing pressure to...
Re-designing the fixed income landscape
Benjamin Bécar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies believes that growing access to data is enabling buy-side firms to transform their trading workflow...
Liquidnet: Traders moving towards alpha capture
By Vineet Naik.
New research indicates that the role of the trader is shifting towards enhancing fund performance by not only the protection, but also...
FTSE Russell weighs country accessibility for fixed income traders
FTSE Russell, the index and data firm, is introducing a country classification process for fixed income. The newly introduced fixed income framework, which is...
