Industry viewpoint : ETFs : Ganesh Iyer & Steve Mickle
ETFS: HOW THE BUY-SIDE TRADER BENEFITS FROM THE NETWORK EFFECT. Fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are increasing in popularity amongst buy-side traders. To ...
Derivatives - Viable alternatives
Tougher capital and liquidity constraints for OTC assets are boosting exchange-traded products appeal to the buy side. Anna Reitman reports. As trading over-the-counter ...
Making a mark on TCA
Transaction cost analysis is becoming more sophisticated despite data limitations. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the current offerings. Fixed income markets are becoming ...
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 ...
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 ...
Primary concern : FIXing issuance
Efforts are underway to automate debt offerings and give the buy side greater control. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports. Initial public and debt offerings can be messy ...
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 ...
Regulation Automated Trading - The finishing line
Lynn Strongin Dodds asks whether the CFTC can get the bill passed before the election and what its impact will be if it does. The clock is ticking for Regulation ...
Buy side calls for reform in US Treasuries
Treasuries market under the spotlight as US finance ministry takes stock in one of the most sweeping reviews of its kind. Anna Reitman reports. The US Treasury’s market ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is portability via indirect clearing under threat?
As sell-side relationships are harder to come by, indirect clearing offers hope for smaller buy-side firms, but without mandated asset segregation many may find ...
How to get a better OMS
Electronification of bond trading makes order/execution management systems vital, yet traders feel they are having to push providers to keep pace. Dan Barnes reports. If ...
Trading Intentions Survey 2016 : The DESK
Building on data gathered in our 2015 Trading Intention’s Survey, The DESK presents its findings for 2016. The respondents. This year we had 70 responses from North ...
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 ...
