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.
The implication of falling US HY Issuance
Anecdotally, we hear that new issuance of high yield bonds in European markets directly impacted secondary market liquidity. Looking at the latest data from SIFMA, as ...
Get US high yield portfolios in order over summer
June looked decidedly challenging for US high yield (HY) trading, as mean bid-ask (BA) spreads dislocated from the median, indicating spikes in BA spreads across certain ...
Parameta and PeerNova launch ClearConsensus price valuation for OTC derivatives
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of TP ICAP Group, has partnered with PeerNova, a Silicon Valley data analytics and management company, to launch ...
Pierre-Emmanuel Charlier joins Vontobel AM
Pierre-Emmanuel Charlier, Vontobel Asset Management.
BofA: Analysis sees surprise future drop in inflation
A report by Bank of America Securities (BofAS), using its BofA Global Proprietary Signals, has found that the futures market is indicating that inflation will moderate ...
CME Group announces Q4 2022 launch of European Overnight Index Futures
Derivatives marketplace operator, CME Group, has announced it will launch European Overnight Index futures based on RepoFunds Rate (RFR) benchmarks and the Euro ...
Raiffeisen Bank International executes first non-standard interest rate swaps
AxeTrading has extended its fixed income products’ offering to support non-standard interest rate swaps which is being used by its client, Raiffeisen Bank International ...
Tradeweb Q2 revenues up 14%
Tradeweb has released its send quarter financial results, reporting $297.1 million in quarterly revenues, up 13.9% compared to prior year period, and US$1.2 trillion ...
Morningstar analysis shows fixed income funds under the cosh with thin liquidity
According to a new report from market data specialist, Morningstar, the unprecedented interest-rate hikes across developed markets has left most bond categories deep in ...
Details on MiFIR deferral regime still needed
A draft report published by Danuta Hübner, rapporteur for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament, has detailed changes to the ...
Darren Bustin joins Schroders
Darren Bustin is to join Schroders Solutions on 1 September 2022, in the newly created role as head of Schroders Solutions Capabilities. Bustin brings over 15 years of ...
Bill Vulpis appointed to IMTC advisory board
IMTC, the provider of fixed income investment management technology, has appointed industry-veteran Bill Vulpis to its advisory board.
UBS Execution Hub hires multiple senior buy-side traders as expansion continues
According to an internal memo, as seen by The DESK, Ian Power has joined UBS Execution Hub as head of UK execution, one of several new hires from buy-side trading desks, ...
Emerging Markets Focus Part 2: Illiquidity in numbers
When investment flows are heavily directional it can make trading more challenging, as most investment firms are selling into a downward market or buying into a rising ...
Emerging Markets Focus Part 1: What the flows mean for traders
Fixed income sector investments have proven worst for emerging markets funds year to date, according to data from JP Morgan and Bloomberg indices, driving outflows for ...
