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.
FILS USA 2022: Where ESG fits in fixed income
Environmental, social and governance is expanding its reach in fixed income markets, though there remain concerns about standardization and data quality. Speakers on the ...
FILS USA 2022: Boosting automation and innovation
The attention of buy-side portfolio managers and traders at the FILS conference in Nashville last week was focused on ways to better manage inefficiency out of the ...
FILS USA 2022: Scaramucci bullish on digital assets
The recent decline in digital assets is a temporary setback amid a very bullish long-term outlook, and investors shouldn’t dismiss the opportunity. Anthony Scaramucci.
FILS USA 2022: Market structure under microscope
There are a host of regulatory proposals out there that stand to have a material and practical impact on how fixed income markets operate, according to panellists on a ...
GAM Investments onboards Bloomberg to improve risk and portfolio management workflows
GAM Investments has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg buy-side workflow solutions in a drive to streamline risk and portfolio management across the enterprise. ...
Altaz Dagha joins BrokerTec
Altaz Dagha, senior director, BrokerTec Products.
Glimpse Markets goes live
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing service, is officially live with a group of global asset managers sharing post-trade bond data with one another on a ‘give to ...
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets team up to tackle European consolidated tape
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets today jointly issued the following statement: “We are pleased to announce an initiative to jointly explore the delivery of a ...
FILS USA 2022: Leveraging technology to greater effect
The audience at FILS USA got an in-depth insight into optimising front office technology on Thursday, with a detailed analysis of how desktop interoperability tools can ...
FILS USA 2022: Beyond RFQ?
Fixed income trading is well beyond the request for quote (RFQ)-only era, i.e. when the only way for a trader to find the other side of a transaction was by canvassing ...
FILS USA 2022: News you may have missed this week
Treasury launches new effort to improve resilience of its market The US Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury ...
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed. While technology has greatly advanced the ...
FILS USA 2022: Finding trader 2.0
Getting the next generation of traders to have the right skills and capabilities, without losing the existing market knowledge, requires traders to be multi-faceted, the ...
FILS USA 2022: Will Europe become more transparent than the US?
European including of government bonds within its consolidated tape, and a new joint venture amongst platform giants Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb, could allow ...
FILS USA 2022: How material will desktop Interoperability be for traders?
The rollout of FDC3 as a standard to support desktop interoperability between different applications has generated considerable interest in the trading community. Dwayne ...
