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 ...
Rise of the EM platform
Trading EM bonds electronically is showing growth, despite the challenges in matching. Chris Hall reports. Emerging Market (EM) debt trading volumes recorded a 21% ...
Buy-side firms warn on herding effect of QE
By Aulia Beg. Portfolio managers have expressed concern about the ‘herding’ behaviour within the investment community, resulting from central banks’ quantitative easing ...
Corporate bonds : E/OMS politics : Anna Reitman
GATEKEEPERS TO LIQUIDITY. E/OMS providers need to overcome political hurdles to help the buy side navigate credit’s fractured markets. Anna Reitman investigates. Vendors ...
Corporate bonds : How big is credit? : Joel Clark
STANDING ROOM ONLY FOR CREDIT PLATFORMS. As corporate bond trading platforms do battle, the size of the prize is not clear. Joel Clark reports. How much profit can a ...
ICAP and the buy side - the beginning of something?
A consensus-led approach has allowed the interdealer broker to overcome political challenges, as brokers open a channel for their investment management clients. Dan ...
Missing liquidity - Zen and the art of liquidity maintenance
Regulators cannot find the liquidity problem that traders see daily, threatening to set rules for game ‘A’, when game ‘B’ is played out in the markets. Chris Hall ...
Industry viewpoint : Mike du Plessis : UBS
COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NEXT PHASE OF MARKET TRANSFORMATION. By Mike du Plessis, Managing Director, UBS Global Head of FX, Rates & Credit Execution Services. The ...
Corporate Bonds : Shuttering & Buffeting : Lynn Strongin Dodds
NETS CAST WIDE AS HIGH YIELD IS SPREAD THIN. With Third Avenue and Lucidus putting high yield in the headlines, traders and portfolio managers are defining liquidity ...
MiFID II: Five concerns
Chris Hall explores the five primary concerns that credit traders have about MiFID II. “MiFID II is not yet in force, but its impact is already very much in evidence, ...
Banca IMI: Lessons for europe
As europe braces for the impact of MiFID II’s transparency requirements on an illiquid corporate bond market, some traders are at an advantage. A panel of experts led by ...
