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.
APG selects FlexTrade for multi-asset execution
APG Asset Management (APG) has selected FlexTrade’s execution management platform, FlexTRADER EMS, to consolidate and streamline its multi-asset execution management ...
The liquidity bears’ picnic
If you are on the desk, there is often an inverse relationship between the tension you experience and the volume of people relaxing on holiday. For example, European ...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side desk budgets hit US$2 million per year
The average buy-side trading desk budget is just over $2 million annually, inclusive of both technology and compensation, with roughly one-third allocated to technology ...
SGX CDP live with Marketnode DLT direct-to-depository service for bond issuers
Singapore Exchange’s Central Depository (SGX CDP) has made a blockchain-enabled bond issuance platform available to market participants. Developed by Marketnode, an SGX ...
The enduring popularity of ‘Don’t Panic’
The phrase ‘Don’t Panic’ crops up frequently in comic fiction, notably in Douglas Adams’ book ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and in 1970’s British sitcom ‘Dad’s ...
Credit Market Structure Alliance: The real market agenda
The CMSA, invitation-only event, is setting an agenda based on market professionals’ concerns, and has captured a groundswell of interest. The DESK: What has been the ...
MiFID II Review: EC could allow payment for order flow in Europe
An ongoing review of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has seen debate on the ...
Arteria AI gets strategic investment co-led by Citi SPRINT and BDC Capital
Arteria AI, an enterprise digital documentation specialist, has received strategic investments from Citi Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT), the strategic ...
Barclays: Portfolio trading 8% of US credit market volume
Barclays has conducted new analysis into portfolio trading of corporate bonds, estimating the trading protocol now makes up 8% of US credit trading.
Parameta Solutions offers access to SURFIX via BT Radianz Cloud
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of global inter-dealer broker TP ICAP, is partnering with BT Radianz Cloud, a cloud community for capital markets, to ...
Denmark FSA investigating bond funds' double-figure losses
HP Fonds Fixed Income
Global investor confidence rises, European confidence falls
State Street Global Markets has found that, despite recent market fluctuations, the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for May 2022 increased to 97.1, up 4.8 ...
Robeco's equity desk engages Goldman Sachs analytics in FlexTRADER
Robeco is live and in production with Goldman Sachs pre-trade cluster analytics and market impact estimates within FlexTRADER execution management system (EMS). The ...
LedgerEdge integrates with thinkFolio
Trading ecosystem provider LedgerEdge has integrated with thinkFolio, the multi-asset class investment management platform from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The ...
Withering supply of European high yield
Comparing the ‘year-to-April’ data across years, 2022’s high yield issuance looks more like the post-financial crisis period than most years in between. Data from ...
