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.
Cowen Outsourced Trading picks TORA OEMS
Joram Siegel, head of Fixed Income Outsourced Trading, Cowen.
LedgerEdge selects Exactpro to support distributed ledger enabled corporate bond trading
Alyona Bulda, head of the Global Exchanges Division at Exactpro.
EC fines Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse for bond cartel
Margrethe Vestager, Executive vice-president, European Commission.
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge ...
Traders note FCA ‘rebundling’ exposes misunderstanding of bond market
The UK market regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a consultation paper (CP) on existing MiFID II rules, which includes a proposed scrapping of ...
Trumid picks EM head and launches EM Attributed Trading
Trumid, has hired Ben Sobel, head of emerging markets, Trumid.
Post-pandemic corporate bond surge continues among retailers
Corporate debt issuance is expected to ramp up this week as more companies emerge from earnings blackout periods, according to research by analytics provider Overbond. ...
Shorted dated issuance reflects investor appetite
The analyst team at CreditSights has spotted that the tenor of investment grade bonds being issued in the US primary market Q1 2021 has declined against the levels seen ...
Secondary volumes in 2021 outpace 2020 sell-off implying greater liquidity
The first quarter of 2021 saw record volume in US and European investment grade trading volume. This is surprising on several fronts, with significant implications for ...
EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners
Pierre Schroeder, Chairman & CEO, TradingScreen.
MarketAxess rides all-to-all and volume growth to record revenues in Q1
Bond market operator MarketAxess has reported Q1 2021 revenues of US$195.5 million, up 16% on the previous year and a company record. While Q1 volume outstripped the ...
CME to launch rates futures based on Mexico’s F-TIIE
Derivative and rates market operator, CME Group, is to introduce interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight TIIE funding rate (F-TIIE). ...
AllianceBernstein executes credit block trade with four buyers on LTX
“This is a major milestone for the fixed income market,” Jim Toffey, CEO of LTX.
Finsmart set to launch DealPro for bond issuance this year
Sotiris Manderis, founder and CEO, Finsmart.
DirectBooks live with euro and sterling investment grade deals
Sell-side consortium DirectBooks, is now live with Euro and Sterling Investment Grade bond deal announcements on its bond issuance platform. The platform launched in Q4 ...
