The DESK - Fixed Income Trading

Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility

Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by a record 28% ...

How traders weathered the Treasury sell-off

The US Treasury’s auction of seven-year notes last Thursday saw the lowest investor appetite ever, according to some sources, leaving primary dealers holding the ...

Aité: Buy-side desk sophistication is driving EMS innovation

Spencer Mindlin, Aite.

TP ICAP expands MATCHBOOK Rebalance to US

Fausto Serrano, head of eCredit and MATCHBOOK Rebalance Americas.

Raiffeisen partners with AxeTrading and Integral to boost bond trading efficiency

Harald Müller, head of group capital markets trading & institutional sales at RBI.

SEC report highlights dealer threat to buy-side allocations in primary markets

US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has reported buy-side firms feel pressured not to publicly speak out about the challenges of the new ...

Regulation & Market Structure: How the SEC and the Fed will change US bond markets in 2021

Transparency and structure is coming to the US Treasury and credit markets. The role of the Fed is changing and consequently the role of other agencies is changing to ...

JP Morgan: Rates and credit trading show greatest electronic growth

Scott Wacker, global head of e-Commerce Sales and Marketing, JP Morgan.

Natwest Markets trading desk automating fixed income trading workflow with ipushpull

Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull.

RBC Capital Markets joins DirectBooks

DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to improve the bond issuance process has seen RBC Capital Markets join its platform as a member.

SGX, Trumid and Hillhouse Capital to launch new Asian bond trading platform

Loh Boon Chye, CEO, SGX. Photo courtesy of The World Federation of Exchanges.

Tradeweb saw ADV hit US$1 trillion in January 2021

Market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for January was US$20 trillion across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money ...