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.
Potential SEC pilot programmes explored by new bond committee
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) explored the possibility of prescriptive intervention to accelerate ...
Dark trading limits to apply from March after reporting failures
*Update* The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will only apply the double volume cap (DVC) mechanism for trading European equities from March 2018, and ...
Margin calls for bitcoin futures pose systemic threat
AIG failed in 2008, because the value it placed upon the mortgages underpinning the credit default swaps it had sold to Goldman Sachs was way off. It got killed by the ...
LSEG restructures IT services
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has restructured its technology businesses under a single brand, LSEG Technology. The change took place over the summer period, ...
Algomi taps bonds held in custody to release liquidity
BNY Mellon and HSBC are each partnering with pre-trade bond data specialist Algomi, to expand corporate bond trading opportunities for their custody clients and the ...
Schroders' former head traders return to senior roles
Rob McGrath (l) & Nick Robinson (r)
GreySpark: Single-tier fixed income markets on rise
Consultancy GreySpark has found a clear shift in the fixed income market towards single-tier electronic venues, as a result of regulatory changes and greater market ...
Editorial: Dealer consortium or dealer cartel?
A class-action lawsuit case alleging cartel behaviour by six prime brokers who “vacuum up 60% or more of the revenue generated by stock loan transactions” has been filed ...
Liquidnet's research reveals liquidity conditions improving
A survey of US and European bond traders has revealed that the liquidity in the fixed income markets is improving.
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be aware of ...
Ancoa post-mortem: Spend was over four times greater than revenue
Ancoa, the troubled market surveillance firm that went into administration on 5 May 2017, had an average monthly spend of £450,000 in 2017, or £5.4 million annually, ...
AxeTrading receives €2 million investment from Illuminate Financial
AxeTrading, a provider of fixed income trading technology, has announced a strategic investment of €2 million from Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital ...
PBoC & HKMA: No investment quota for northbound Bond Connect trade
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have given their approval to the local market infrastructure providers to collaborate in ...
Granit Funds hires Erlandsson as head of fixed income from AP4
Granit Funds has recruited Ulf Erlandsson as its head of fixed income starting in August. He comes from the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) where he had the ...
Algomi: The two-pronged attack plan
Algomi has an idea almost universally agree to be good, yet it has struggled to get it adopted. It aggregates inventory data pre-trade, in order to overcome rising cost ...
