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.
New EM issues make relationships matter
Buy-side emerging markets (EM) traders will be bonding well with their banks and brokers this year to make sure they are getting a slice of new issues. According to data ...
Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to optimise the bond issuance process has signed up Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets to ...
Greenwich: Nearly half of bond trading desk budgets now spent on technology
New research by Coalition Greenwich has found that the proportion of budget for fixed income trading desks spent on technology grew to 46% in 2020, up from 40% the ...
Internal crossing for US bond trading needs ‘principles-based’ approach
Dwayne Middleton, global head of fixed income trading, T. Rowe Price.
Aegon AM wins short-dated investment grade bond mandates
Adrian Hull, head of fixed income, Aegon AM.
FlexTrade Systems integrates with BMLL
Paul Humphrey, CEO at BMLL.
IHS Markit publishing new CRITR US dollar funding rate
Julien Rey, executive director and head of the LIBOR Transition Program at IHS Markit.
Ediphy's consolidated tape initiative sees positive response from the market
Chris Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Ediphy.
Central clearing for bonds?
The lack of dealer liquidity provision during the March 2020 sell-off has triggered several proposals for market structure reform, not least in the US Treasury market. ...
BNP Paribas streamlines pre-trade client workflow with ipushpull
Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull.
Barclays now streaming prices into MarketAxess Live Markets
Richard Schiffman, head of Open Trading, MarketAxess.
First trades of CME’s Mexican F-TIIE interest rate futures
Market operator the CME Group has processed the first trades of the new interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight TIIE funding rate (F-TIIE). ...
Dealers grow FICC revenues 15% in first quarter of 2021
Sell-side fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues saw growth of 15% in the first quarter of 2021, according to new research by analyst firm Coalition ...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust rules ...
Chart of the week: Trading into Europe
Following our analysis of when to trade into US markets, we examine spreads for European rates markets across the day. For overseas traders working European markets the ...
