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.
Is issuance for the high jump?
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Is there value in fixed income TCA?
New research published by investment bank Barclays has suggested there is a limited use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools for purposes beyond regulatory ...
ION LatentZero connected to UBS Bond Port for buy-side
Trading, analytics, and risk management system provider, ION Markets, has connected its LatentZero buy-side clients to the UBS Bond Port trading platform. Bond Port is ...
Overbond releases AI-driven margin optimisation tool
Overbond has released an artificial intelligence (AI) powered margin optimisation add-on that integrates with its existing suite of AI-driven fixed income analytics. ...
First Sentier connects Flowlinx via FlexTrade to access EM liquidity data
Asset manager First Sentier Investors has connected to Flowlinx liquidity via execution and order management system (E/OMS) provider FlexTrade.
Finanstilsynet: Portfolio manager “abused his position” by flipping bonds and self-trading
The senior portfolio manager for Norwegian investment firm Kraft Finans, Øivind Thorstensen, was piggy-backing on client investment in new bond issues, in order to ...
LedgerEdge selects Eventus for DLT-based corporate bond platform
LedgerEdge, the corporate bond trading platform being developed on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has selected Validus, a real-time trade surveillance platform ...
Update: How big is portfolio trading?
In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition Greenwich, penned by ...
Overbond and IPC partner on voice-to-AI supporting bond trading automation
Overbond has partnered with IPC, the communications and cloud connectivity service provider, to integrate IPC’s point-of-trade voice transaction data into Overbond’s ...
Symphony acquires StreetLinx
Symphony has acquired the counterparty mapping platform StreetLinx, thereby adding over 200 institutional counterparties to the 1000+ institutions it reports are ...
Eaton named CEO at digital bond platform Nivaura
Capital markets fintech Nivaura has appointed Scott Eaton as its new chief executive officer. Eaton brings three decades of experience in leadership roles in capital ...
Tradeweb joins forces with Boerse Stuttgart, sees Q2 revenues up 19%
Market operator Tradeweb is partnering with Boerse Stuttgart to offer the German exchange’s users direct access to liquidity in US bond trading. The exchange is ...
THETA hires Flanagan amid whirlwind of connectivity ahead of launch
THETA, the specialist provider of buy-side trading technology as a service, has appointed Paul Flanagan as strategic sales advisor, managing relationships with buy-side ...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Brad Foster, global head of Enterprise Data Content, Bloomberg.
