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.
Ancoa goes into adminstration
Cinnober Financial Technology has acquired the assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company, as a going concern. Terms of the deal have ...
Bondecosystem and TransFICC partner for bond market connectivity
Outsourced connectivity specialist Bondecosystem has partnered with financial technology provider TransFICC, to deliver a low-latency execution and connectivity service ...
EMMI drops Euribor+ methodology due to low transaction volumes
The European Money Markets Institute (EMMI), a non-profit group established by national banking associations in the European Union, has dropped the Euribor+ methodology, ...
Bond issuance standardisation boosted by FMSB
Market participants have published final guidelines that clarify expected behaviour during the new issue process for fixed income bonds in Europe.
The DESK on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed
The Desk's managing editor, Dan Barnes, was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, discussing the role of retail traders in the market, based on Alex Preda's book ...
Bloomberg wins over AB and Capital Group with BVAL
AllianceBernstein (AB) and Capital Group have both selected Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service (BVAL) to benchmark and corroborate end-of-day values for US fixed ...
Fixed income platforms buoyed as all-to-all expands
Fixed income electronic trading platform operators have announced record trading volumes in the first quarter of 2017.
Sterling dealers recommend SONIA as alternative to LIBOR
The Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates – a group of major dealers active in sterling interest rate swap markets – has announced ...
Plan to replace Dodd-Frank formally introduced in House of Representatives
The chairman of the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling, has formally introduced the Financial CHOICE Act, a proposed ...
KazMunayGas lists US$2.75 billion of Eurobonds on LSE
London Stock Exchange (LSE) has seen its largest issuance of corporate bonds from the CIS region since 2014. Kazakh oil and gas company, KazMunayGas, placed US$2.75 ...
BoE sets code of conduct for repo and securities lending
A new voluntary Money Markets Code setting out the standards and best practice expected from participants in the deposit, repo and securities lending markets has been ...
Hermes appoints Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income
Hermes Investment Management, which has £30.6 billion in assets under management, appointed Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income, reporting to Eoin Murray, head of ...
Trading systems FIXed to Ipreo for bond issuance
Primary market specialist Ipreo has launched a FIX-messaging based system for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically ...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market
OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing more than ...
CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe to close by year end
CME Group is to close its London-based derivatives exchange and clearing house, CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe, by year-end 2017. The announcement follows Nasdaq ...
