Bloomberg launches Portfolio Trading Basket Builder to boost workflow efficiency
Bloomberg has launched its Portfolio Trading Basket Builder (PTBB) , an enhancement to its existing portfolio trading workflow, which incorporates reference to Bloomberg’s Evaluated...
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
Refinancing debt: New bonds, old problem
A new paper from Bank of America’s credit strategist Neha Khoda and Adam Vogel has found that bond issuers are facing a significant increase in costs...
Bloomberg drops RUNZ forwarding over information leakage fears
On 10 September 2024 Bloomberg started automatically blocking the forwarding of RUNZ-formatted messages.
A RUNZ formatted message is an email message composed on the Bloomberg...
Bank of England to back the buy side in market turmoil
The Bank of England (BoE) will develop a new lending tool for non-bank financial institutions, starting with UK insurance companies and pension funds, which...
Dealers need to go with the flow
Broker-dealers must become more technologically savvy in the derivatives space if they want to impress buy-side clients. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
Multi-asset trading is increasingly...
Trading Intentions Survey 2017: US Focus
Firms with US credit desks are checking out Algomi, KCG Bondpoint and Trumid.
About the survey: The Trading Intentions Survey is conducted by The DESK, asking...
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Viewpoint : Best execution in derivatives : Liam Huxley
Taking the proper steps
The DESK speaks to Liam Huxley, CEO of Cassini Systems about best execution in derivatives.
How well developed is the best execution process...
Get your trade dressed to kill (or execute)
Getting a trade to look attractive to a counterparty gets harder the more illiquid, large, and specific it is. As the purpose of a...
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...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
Origin launches Instant-ISIN 2.0 for Eurobond issuance
Origin, a debt capital markets fintech, has launched Instant-ISIN 2.0 for both allocation and activation of ISINs for Eurobond issuance, ‘XS’ ISINs, while also...
