Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure
As new platforms promise to increase efficiency in bond issuance, buy-side firms are looking for leverage to drive change, and not only through technology. The US debt ...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused ...
Data’s weakness in March crisis accelerates calls for European tape
Where European bond market infrastructure has lagged behind US, traders – and therefore investors – have suffered. From a promised age of enlightenment, many traders ...
One desk for multi-asset low-touch trading
If a single desk can trade all liquid instruments for an asset manager, it could see significant cost and process efficiencies. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports. The ...
The burgeoning portfolio trading business
Electronic portfolio trading offers an efficient execution channel for baskets of bonds, but Lynn Strongin Dodds finds there are several barriers to growth. Portfolio ...
Liquidnet: Connectivity is key for efficient trading
By Vineet Naik.
Credit : Falling through the gaps
Asset managers fight for high-touch coverage Relationship management between buy- and sell-side firms is more necessary than ever, as the push to electronic trading ...
Viewpoint : Best execution : Constantinos Antoniades & Rebecca Healey
A global gold standard of best execution – moving beyond MiFID II By Constantinos Antoniades, Head of Fixed Income, and Rebecca Healey, Head of EMEA Market Structure, ...
Platforms: What the winners are doing right
A few platforms have consistently gained buy-side confidence over the last five years, through smart assistance and simplification of trading workflow. The three ‘O’s of ...
Science vs. art: Where TCA adds value in fixed income
Picking the right transaction cost analysis methodology might improve best execution, but qualitative assessment must balance the quantitative, writes Flora McFarlane. ...
Corporate Bond E-Trading 3.0: The drivers ahead
As electronic trading in the corporate bond market increases, those platforms and market participants who intend to be at the cutting edge of the industry are already ...
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 ...
