Chappell and Nuyts launch European outsourced trading centre
Bart Nuyts and Brett Chappell
Bond e-Trading prices still off; central banks adding to turmoil
Buy-side traders are still reporting “violent moves” in fixed income. In a liquidity crisis, investors are reliant on their asset managers’ traders to support the buying ...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed income desks see highest buy-side tech spend
Technology spend on buy-side trading desks rose 4% in 2019 from the previous year, to reach US$2.2 million on average, with fixed-income trading desks leading spend with ...
Bond pricing battle shutters Nordic funds
Several Nordic fund managers have been shuttering fixed income funds, mainly in the corporate bond space, to allow them to get prices from banks for their holdings, as ...
Bond traders report screen prices are off by 10%
Several buy-side fixed income traders have confirmed that electronic prices are currently around 10% off the price that bonds are actually trading at, creating problems ...
ICMA: Fully-automatic credit trading has grown; block liquidity has reduced
The International Capital Markets Association has found 44% of buy-side trading desks have increased their use of rules-based, fully automated electronic execution ...
EC launches wide ranging review of MiFID II/MiFIR and investment firms
The European Commission (EC) has launched a ‘Review of the regulatory framework for investment firms and market operators’ to capture any perceived changes needed to the ...
Chappell lands new trading role for 2020
Brett Chappell, the former head of fixed income trading at Nordea Investment Management, is joining Mariana UFP, a global financial services business in London with ...
On The DESK : Stuart Campbell : BlueBay Asset Management
STUART CAMPBELL: OUTPERFORMANCE AND AUTO-EXECUTION. Leading the charge into electronic trading, Stuart Campbell tells The DESK how he has set up his team to prevail. ...
Traders call time on outsized European market open hours
Buy- and sell-side traders have called for Europe to review its equity market open periods, which at eight and half hours is over 30% longer than market open in the US ...
How asset managers capture micro-alpha opportunities
Setting up your desk correctly can help to boost returns for funds and clients. When an opportunity arises for a fund to improve its returns, it is incumbent upon the ...
How to secure balance sheet from your broker
Buy- and sell-side veterans tell us the best practices which persuade brokers to take risk on their clients’ behalf. Finding sell-side partners to take the other side of ...
Björkman joins Credit Suisse as the head of execution for fixed income
Mikael Björkman has joined Credit Suisse’s private bank as the head of Execution in Fixed Income, joining from UBS’ private bank where he was head of Data Driven Insight.
Blake made partner at boutique Mariana Investment Partners
David Blake has joined Mariana Investment Partners, a boutique investment partnership focussed on investment solutions for small to mid-sized asset owners. Assets under ...
