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.
Michael O’Brien leaves Eaton Vance for new firm
Michael O’Brien, former director of global trading at Eaton Vance, has joined Artisan Partners Asset Management with several colleagues. Artisan has announced that ...
BNY Mellon adds agency MBS to new DTCC cleared repo sponsored member programme
Murray Pozmanter, head of clearing agency services, DTCC.
Does the value-add of data justify the cost to bond traders?
Audrey Blater, Aite-Novarica.
Overbond launches buy-side model for spotting mispriced bonds
Overbond has added a ‘rich-cheap’ model to its suite of AI fixed income analytics, designed to help buy-side desks generate systematic returns. Combining both static and ...
Tradeweb monthly ADV up 20% year-on-year
Market operator Tradeweb has reported a total trading volume of US$19.8 trillion for August 2021 across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money ...
Liquidnet Primary Markets launches for Europe and US
Liquidnet, the block trading specialist which is part of TP ICAP, has launched its hotly anticipated Liquidnet Primary Markets service, a new offering providing a debt ...
Ivan Mihov joins Liquidnet
Ivan Mihov has been appointed as fixed income sell-side business development at Liquidnet. Mihov has a strong pedigree in sales in the sector, with three years spent at ...
The evolution of an IDB
TP ICAP has assembled a team of diverse talents including cadres of former Newedge and UBS colleagues amongst the employees of Tullett Prebon, ICAP, COEX and now ...
Stephen Grady joins Lombard Odier Group
Stephen Grady, head of global markets and EVP, Lombard Odier Group.
SMBC joins DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to make bond issuance more efficient, has seen SMBC Nikko Securities America, a member of SMBC Group, join the ...
Sara Furber appointed Tradeweb CFO
Sara Furber, CFO, Tradeweb.
CGS-CIMB Securities adopts Bloomberg TOMS and data licence for expansion
Asia-based financial services provider, CGS-CIMB Securities International, has adopted Bloomberg’s Trade Order Management System (TOMS) and data via Bloomberg Data ...
Abel Noser acquires Trade Informatics
Trade analytics and agency brokerage Abel Noser has closed the deal with Trade Informatics, a New York based firm offering equities trade cost analysis (TCA), ...
Deming joins CalPERS from Allianz GI
Amy Deming has been named investment director with responsibility for investment controls and operational risk at California Public Employees Retirement System ...
TRACE recalibration exposes double counting
An adjustment to bond trade reporting to TRACE, the US post-trade reporting tape for fixed income, has cut the volume of trades arranged via alternative trading systems ...
