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.
Why are European IG Bid-Ask spreads widening?
Liquidity in the European corporate bond market is becoming more expensive in both high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) trading. According to MarketAxess data, ...
Risk appetite increasing as investor confidence rises 5.1 Points in August
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for August 2022. The Global Investor Confidence Index increased ...
Santiago Braje joins PGGM
Industry veteran Santiago Braje has joined PGGM as senior investment manager, focusing on emerging markets debt.
Overbond partners with TMX Group in Canadian dollar-denominated bonds
Overbond, a provider of AI analytics and trade automation solutions for fixed income markets, has partnered with market operator TMX Group, to integrate the Canadian ...
The European Women in Finance Awards: Nominations close on 2 September 2022
Celebrate the success of the foremost female financiers at The European Women in Finance Awards 2022, to be held on Thursday 13th October 2022 at the Four Seasons Hotel, ...
Pragma launches new algorithmic management system
Pragma, the multi-asset execution technology provider, has released a new generation of Panorama, the firm’s algorithmic management system (AMS).
Project Amber: Dealer consortium developing new bond trading venue
A consortium of sell-side firms is developing a trading platform in the fixed income space, which could rival existing venues including Bloomberg, MarketAxess and ...
Are US dealers still offsetting credit trading risks?
As US banks see credit positions turn negative, and interdealer market volumes remain flat, The DESK asks how they offset risk as their credit trading volumes rise with ...
Adroit wins Invesco, connects to LedgerEdge
Adroit Trading Technologies, a trading system provider for institutional buy-side managers, has been mandated as an execution management system (EMS) across over the ...
Simon Johnson joins RBC as head of credit sales EMEA
Simon Johnson has joined RBC as managing director, head of credit sales EMEA, based in London and reporting to Janet Wilkinson, co-head, fixed income currency and ...
Exclusive: Nichola Hunter to lead Liquidnet’s fixed income sales
Block-trading and agency execution specialist, Liquidnet, has appointed Nichola Hunter as global head of sales for fixed income.
Bloomberg forces SEC to provide cost analysis of primary issuance database
Bloomberg has had its case for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to provide an analysis of the costs for a primary bond market database, supported in an ...
Editorial: Asset managers wilt as banks impose hose-pipe ban
In the UK, during dry conditions, the government bans the public from using hosepipes in order to conserve water. In 2022, the sell side has imposed its own version of ...
Eurex expands FX Futures offering to emerging markets currencies
Eurex will start trading new FX Futures contracts covering Brazilian Real (BRL), Mexican Pesos (MXN) and South African Rand (ZAR) on 10 October 2022. The launch of the ...
