The DESK - Fixed Income Trading

China focus: The outstanding debt of defaulters

Concern around issuer defaults in China is clearly based upon good evidence; our chart this week from S&P Global Ratings shows the annual growth in average ...

Does the value-add of data justify the cost to bond traders?

Audrey Blater, Aite-Novarica.

Update: How big is portfolio trading?

In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition Greenwich, penned by ...

Analyst firm Aité in merger to form Aite-Novarica Group

Sang Lee, head of Products and Strategy, Aite-Novarica Group.

GreySpark: Buyer’s guide for cross-asset e-trading tools sets new expectations

Russell Dinnage, head of the Capital Markets Intelligence Practice, GreySpark.

Aladdin users gain Cassini support for derivatives trading

BlackRock has partnered with Cassini Systems, the pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics provider, to integrate Cassini analytics into BlackRock’s Aladdin ...

Fixed income e-trading in review with Burton-Taylor

Colby Jenkins.

Greenwich: Nearly half of bond trading desk budgets now spent on technology

New research by Coalition Greenwich has found that the proportion of budget for fixed income trading desks spent on technology grew to 46% in 2020, up from 40% the ...

Katana launches on Bloomberg

Santiago Braje, founder and CEO, Katana.

Traders note FCA ‘rebundling’ exposes misunderstanding of bond market

The UK market regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a consultation paper (CP) on existing MiFID II rules, which includes a proposed scrapping of ...