On The DESK: Leaders in bond trading pinpoint risks and opportunities
We asked the buy-side traders we have profiled on The DESK for the past ten years to discuss the biggest changes they thought had...
Competition in credit futures heating up with ICE/MarketAxess/MSCI launch
Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE) has launched four new corporate bond index futures, designed to answer institutional investors' appetite for credit futures.
The product launch comes after...
Exclusive: Man Group’s proprietary OEMS highlights potential for systematic volume growth
Man Group is now live on an internally developed order and execution management system (OEMS), to trade across asset classes, currently covering corporate credit,...
The Book: BofA DCM team give issuers confidence for financing in 2025
The DESK spoke with Bank of America’s Julien Roman, head of EMEA DCM FIG Origination, Paula Weisshuber, head of EMEA Corporate DCM, and Adrien...
Insights and analysis: Morgan Stanley 2025 – ‘Timing Is Everything’ across asset classes
Morgan Stanley’s outlook for 2025 finds a “still-moderate macro environment” with the mood heading towards deregulation, which it notes is largely is constructive for...
Discussions between TP ICAP and Neptune reported
Multiple market sources have reported that discussions between pre-trade data provider Neptune and TP ICAP, the multi-asset trading, interdealer broker and data services firm,...
E-trading platforms show mixed results in October’s market share battle
Electronic trading fixed income platforms saw a slight drop off in volume relative to October, but strong activity against the same period last year.
Bond...
Measuring implicit costs and market impact in credit trading
Evaluating the quality of a bond trade is made complex by the multiple dynamics which impact quality, and the frequent absence of data to...
Under pressure
Secondary markets trading has seen a net trend towards tighter bid-ask spreads for trading across all corporate bond segments in US, Europe and emerging...
Dealers face crunch on platform trading costs
As bid-ask spreads tighten and fees rise, dealers question making markets in credit.
It does not take a quant to understand that tighter bid-ask spreads...
