Research: Volatility has changed trading protocol choices in 2021
Buy-side trading desks have used markedly different proportions of trading protocols between passive and active portfolios this year compared to 2020. The DESK’s Trading ...
Data: A blank tape
Europe’s consolidated tape proposal is a start, but many details still need to be filled in for its value to be assessed. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports. A consolidated ...
The advantages of derivatives trading
There can be valuable benefits to using derivatives as part of a portfolio. Bringing derivatives into a fund’s mandate requires client appetite, portfolio management and ...
Craig McLeod: Exploring the new frontiers of EM trading
Today’s EM traders need more data, market access and broader liquidity than ever before to meet the investment profiles of their portfolios. Craig McLeod, Head of ...
Is the market braced for another sell-off?
Traders are reporting the positive effects of innovation upon market liquidity but central banks hold all the cards. The association between the Covid 19 pandemic and ...
Front-to-back OMS providers change strategy
Dan Barnes investigates why big OMS providers are partnering with smaller players. In 2018, following the acquisition of Charles River Development by State Street, it ...
Research: Having an EMS does lead to better performance in bond trading
The buy-side’s wish-list for execution and order management systems revealed in The DESK’s latest research. Buy-side bond traders want their trading technology to ...
A road less travelled
Aparajita Bose-Mullick, Global Product Manager at SmartStream Technologies - Reference Data Utility, talks about carving new paths, cause & effect and being nimble.
Overbond aims to increase fixed income automation
Vuk Magdelinic, CEO, Overbond.
Is there value in fixed income TCA?
New research published by investment bank Barclays has suggested there is a limited use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools for purposes beyond regulatory ...
Update: How big is portfolio trading?
In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition Greenwich, penned by ...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
European bond traders struggle with block trades and counterparties
Analysis of the European and US corporate bond markets by Coalition Greenwich has found that block trades and counterparties are a far greater concern for buy-side ...
Technology: Can the EMS become a desktop trading venue?
Direct streaming of dealer prices could allow traders to bypass third party venues, if their desktop systems can be used to execute direct streams from dealers.
