Dan Barnes
dan.barnes@fi-desk.comThe Editorial Director at Markets Media Europe, Dan strives to become an integral part of traders’ networks by ensuring they are informed and helped by the information we deliver. Dan wrote the world’s first article on predatory trading algorithms in 2004, and has won multiple State Street ‘Journalist of the Year’ awards in several categories. In his spare time, Dan makes longbows.
valantic FSA invests in low-code technology provider Velox
Joachim Lauterbach, CEO, valantic FSA.
MarketAxess: New trading protocols are expanding, not cannibalising, liquidity
MarketAxess has reported its second highest level of quarterly revenue and credit trading volume, as well as a record total trading volume in Q1 2022 in its latest ...
Wave Labs launches Systematic Investment Application for building systematic credit strategies
Execution management system (EMS) provider, Wave Labs, is launching its Systematic Investment Application (SIA), a new modular system for developing systematic ...
Bloomberg warns on SEC extending exchange rules into bond market communication protocols
In a letter penned by Bloomberg’s Gregory Babyak, global head of regulatory Affairs and Gary Stone regulatory analyst and market structure strategist, the market data, ...
Bloomberg and MSCI launch Paris-Aligned bond indices
Bloomberg and MSCI have launched indices in their joint Climate Benchmark offering with the Bloomberg MSCI Global, Euro and US Corporate Paris-Aligned Indices. These ...
Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson named co-CIOs at RPIA
RPIA, a Toronto-based fixed income specialist asset management firm has appointed Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson as co-chief investment officers (CIOs), effective 1 ...
Will primary market tools fragment new issuance instead of standardising it?
Research by The DESK has found that buy-side traders have adopted a range of primary market tools to help them increase their efficiency at processing new bond issues. ...
The cost of liquidity in EM today
A very graphic representation of the cost of liquidity can be seen in the latest data from MarketAxess. It shows that average daily volume for hard currency EM bonds has ...
Tradeweb sees credit default swap volume double in March
Tradeweb has reported total trading volume for March 2022 of US$28.2 trillion, with US$811 billion in credit default swaps, up from US$330 billion in February 2022 and ...
Tradeweb launches AI pricing service for munis
Lisa Schirf, Tradeweb
Chris McConville joins Kepler Cheuvreux
Chris McConville, Managing Director and Head of Execution Services and Trading, Kepler Cheuvreux.
TP ICAP connects dealers to Liquidnet’s New Issue Trading protocol
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market infrastructure and information provider, is enabling dealers to join the buy-side in placing orders and trade directly on the ...
BrokerTec’s March average daily volume for US Treasuries up 11%
Market operator BrokerTec, part of the CME Group, has reported double figure growth in US Treasuries trading volume for March. More broadly, CME reported its Q1 and ...
KeyBanc Capital Markets adopts Bloomberg B-PIPE for investment grade credit algorithm
Brian Brennan, head of fixed income at KeyBanc Capital Markets.
