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.
Bloomberg pricing and reference data on Goldman’s Marquee
Bloomberg’s Data License content is to be integrated with the Goldman Sachs Marquee platform, which the firms say will make it the first global investment bank to use ...
Bond trading boosts BNP Paribas’s FICC revenues
BNP Paribas’s investment bank delivered double digit revenue growth in 2019, with revenues for Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) up by over 30%. The ...
OpenDoor reveals greatest challenge and a turbo-charged match rate
OpenDoor has revealed a significantly high match rate for asset managers on the all-to-all continuous order book it launched in January 2020, to replace session-based ...
Trumid announces record platform activity in January
Bond market operator, Trumid, has reported a record month of activity in January 2020 on Trumid Market Center, the company’s electronic bond trading platform. Market ...
AxeTrading links with Börse Stuttgart, Bond Port and adds Overbond pricing tool
Börse Stuttgart is to resume business in €-corporate bonds with its long-standing partner Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), via the AxeTrading platform.
Asset managers could avoid tying up collateral under new uncleared margin rules
The majority of asset managers dragged into new uncleared margin requirements over the next two years could avoid tying up capital altogether, but still play by the ...
Chappell lands new trading role for 2020
Brett Chappell, the former head of fixed income trading at Nordea Investment Management, is joining Mariana UFP, a global financial services business in London with ...
ING spins out AI bond tool for commercial buy-side use
ING has spun out Katana, its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for bond pricing, into a London-based standalone company called Katana Labs. ING Ventures will invest ...
GreySpark: Smart data analytics key in reducing trading costs
A new piece of GreySpark Partners research has found that spending by investment banks and asset managers on markets and transaction data in the cash equities, fixed ...
Greenwich: Data analytics now more valued than market structure knowledge
Three out of four capital markets professionals say data analysis will be the most valued skill on trading desks over the next five years, and 85% plan to increase their ...
New senior trader at Baillie Gifford
James Li, senior investment trader, Baillie Gifford
B2Scan closes down
B2Scan, the pre-trade liquidity data platform for bond markets, has shut down after eight years. The CEO and founder of B2Scan, Frédéric Semour, was not contactable for ...
Traders call time on outsized European market open hours
Buy- and sell-side traders have called for Europe to review its equity market open periods, which at eight and half hours is over 30% longer than market open in the US ...
UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
