Jane Street: Ten years of progress
The DESK and Jane Street first met in 2014 at FILS – we speak with Ian Shea, Head of Fixed Income Trading.
How has...
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...
Ten years of research: Lessons for trading platforms in fixed income
Lessons on the viability and competitiveness of liquidity aggregation tools can be drawn form the last decade of research conducted by The DESK.
In 2015...
Cboe Global Markets: Newer, more diverse liquidity in EM markets
A new set of emerging market credit futures is expanding the range of trading and investment support for specialist and multi-asset EM investors.
Nick Godec...
TransFICC: The European bond market – changing by the microsecond
By Judd Gaddie, Co-Founder TransFICC
Advantages have always been sought by traders, often resulting in a race to obtain information before competitors. Incorporating new technology...
J.P. Morgan: Finding the best path in e-trading fixed income
Electronic trading may resolve key structural challenges in the market for buy-side traders, including instrument selection, with guidance from key dealers.
Chinedum Nzelu, head of...
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...
The Fixed Income Leaders Summit: Debating a decade of change
The focused event delivered a communication hub that has supported the buy and sell side as they navigated market transformation.
“In 2014, this event was...
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...
Credit Index Futures: Increasing price transparency, liquidity and capital efficiency to credit markets
Davide Masi, fixed income and currencies product manager, and Vassily Pascalis, senior vice president, fixed income sales, discuss developing the asset class and the...
