European Women in Finance 2022 – The Longlist
In 2020, Best Execution and The DESK hosted the first European Women in Finance Awards, following the model of Markets Media's long-established awards programme....
Market sources: Project Amber has shut down
Multiple sources have confirmed that the withdrawal of major banks from Project Amber has shut it down. Three banks had reportedly left before the...
Credit: The liquid, green bond sea
By Dan Barnes.
Green bonds issuance is booming and investor appetite growing, making access to markets increasingly important.
The size of the green bond market reached...
MTS: Preparing fixed income participants for MiFID II
By Tom Harry, Regulatory Specialist at MTS
The upcoming implementation of MiFID II will have wide-ranging implications for fixed income trading. From 3rd January 2018, fixed income market...
What FILS delegates want
With the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) Europe upon us, The DESK has been speaking to attendees to discern what topics are most eagerly...
Boltzbit: The practical application of AI in investment and trading
Asset managers are already able to leverage large language models to boost investment and trading workflows.
The DESK spoke with Yichuan Zhang, chief executive officer...
Report: China’s pension stress represents opportunity for global buy side
Global asset managers should take note of the investment opportunities presented by China’s pension fund market as the space embraces much-needed reform and technological...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 19
Dan Barnes speaks with Lynn StronginDodds about the shifting European exchange landscape.
Me The Money Show Episode 19 from Markets Media on Vimeo.
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AllianceBernstein executes credit block trade with four buyers on LTX
AllianceBernstein has reportedly become the first buy-side firm to receive aggregated liquidity from multiple buyers on the same block trade. The trade was enabled...
Bloomberg machine learning pricing solution enhances fixed income trading visibility
Bloomberg’s Intraday BVAL (IBVAL) Front Office is now available to Bloomberg Terminal customers, as well as users of Bloomberg’s real-time streaming market data feed,...
Repurchase disagreements
A calamitous year-end in 2016 has put the broken repo market firmly in the spotlight. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
December 2016 saw Europe’s repurchase agreement...
MarketAxess to buy MuniBrokers
Bond market operator MarketAxess has agreed to buy MuniBrokers, a central electronic venue serving municipal bond inter-dealer brokers and dealers.
MuniBrokers connects 14 municipal securities...
