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.
FILS 2021: Portfolio trading up threefold
Portfolio trading in fixed income has grown threefold in two years, data from Flow Traders reveal. Ramon Balje, head of fixed income at Flow Traders.
FILS 2021: Overcoming barriers to automation
Implementation costs are among the biggest hurdles for buy-side fixed income desks hoping to increase efficiency workflows. Juan Landazabal, global head of trading at ...
FILS 2021: Dealers outline strategy for direct connectivity
Buy-side traders are seeing their sell-side counterparts offering direct streamed prices as an alternative source for data and direct trading, which dealers see as a ...
The winners in the primary market
In the bond issuance markets, there have been a few subtle changes in the top five most successful banks for syndication, and less subtle change further out, according ...
APAC trading recovery is far from even
The recovery from last year’s market sell-off and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic appears to have been marked in many regions, with volumes for both buying and selling ...
FILS 2021: The five big questions at FILS this year
1. When will we see a functional consolidated tape?
FILS 2021: Great expectations
Big themes are getting thrown around at WBR’s Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit, which is back today as a physical event for the first time in two years. Overarching ...
FILS 2021: Lessons in better execution post-crisis
With economic upheaval ahead, potentially stemming from a supply crisis in many sectors, getting better execution for even in difficult markets will be key. Big ‘Day ...
FILS 2021: Overbond adds pre-trade streaming API for TCA into EMS automation suite
Overbond, a provider of AI analytics and trade automation for the global fixed income markets, has added pre-trade and post-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) to its ...
FILS 2021: AxeTrading integrates ICE pricing and analytics
Mark Watters, CCO and co-founder of AxeTrading.
John Rothrock named head of DirectPool
John Rothrock III, CastleOak Securities.
Symphony SPARC falls prey to debate on venue versus execution tool
Capital markets communication network, Symphony has been fined by the US derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), after it found the ...
Bond-trading broker-dealer charged for allegedly bankrupting firm
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Keith Wakefield, a former managing director and head of fixed income trading at IFS Securities, an Atlanta-based ...
FlexTrade integrates IHS Markit pre-trade TCA data into EMS
FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management system provider, and IHS Markit, the analytics and solutions provider to buy- and sell-side firms, are ...
Neptune announces new CEO, with strong buy-side support
Neptune Networks, the fixed income pre-trade market utility, has appointed John ‘Coach’ Robinson as permanent chief executive officer (CEO). Robinson commenced in the ...
