Trading Intentions Survey 2017: US Focus
Firms with US credit desks are checking out Algomi, KCG Bondpoint and Trumid. About the survey: The Trading Intentions Survey is conducted by The DESK, asking buy-side ...
Algomi: The two-pronged attack plan
Algomi has an idea almost universally agree to be good, yet it has struggled to get it adopted. It aggregates inventory data pre-trade, in order to overcome rising cost ...
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 ...
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 ...
On The Desk: Carl James: On changing trader culture
Moving to a data-led model of trading requires a change in culture across the desk, as Pictet Asset Management’s head of Fixed Income Trading explains. Carl James is ...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading in ...
VedBrat named global head of trading for BlackRock
Supurna VedBrat, currently deputy head of trading and co-head for Electronic Trading & Market Structure at asset manager BlackRock will become global head of trading ...
Head of FI trading Harrington departs BMO Global Asset Management
BMO Global Asset Management has confirmed that Marc Harrington has left the firm as head of fixed income dealing. Harrington is a highly experienced buy-side trader and ...
Buy-side desks swing extra US$2.1 million into fixed income trading technology
By Sobia Hamid. On average buy-side fixed income desks pushed US$2.1 million of additional budget into technology in 2016, according to new research from analyst firm ...
Asset managers ‘not investment firms’ under MiFID II?
By Flora McFarlane & Dan Barnes. Several European investment managers have reportedly claimed that they will not be classified as investment firms under the revised ...
Pension funds take on trading
When retirement funds bring fixed income investment in-house, they have to re-engineer the trading process. Dan Barnes finds out how. Many pension funds are weighing up ...
Return of volatility - will liquidity shifts bend or break US Treasuries?
Disclosed trading and internalisation are increasing as liquidity is wrung out of dealers and electronic market-makers. Chris Hall reports. As January’s storms ripped ...
On The DESK : Nick Cox : J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Nick Cox: Engaging a moving target Nick Cox is the global head of fixed income trading at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, one of the largest buy-side firms in the world ...
Predicting the future by looking at the past
Mark Pumfrey, Liquidnet. Mark Pumfrey, Head of EMEA, Liquidnet says that drawing on past experiences can provide some guidance as to how a cause will take effect. In ...
