Change is jangling money market funds
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the impact of liquidity and settlement reforms. Regulatory reform, which has been a very long time coming in the US$4.46 trillion global ...
China lays path to greater liquidity
Better risk and liquidity management is on the cards for the buy side as repo and derivatives are promoted by authorities and market infrastructure operators. Hong Kong ...
Traders grapple with bigger syndicates and more issuance
To handle wider syndicates and greater volumes of issuance, traders cannot rely on manual processes. Chris Hall investigates. “There has been no real improvement in ...
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 ...
Derivatives : Migrating benchmarks : Dan Barnes
LIBOR: WHEN TO JUMP ON THE SOFR The transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to overnight indexed swap rates is moving, but when should the buy-side ...
Industry viewpoint : MTS
Work smarter with MTS Auto Execution – trade automation at your fingertips Paul O’Brien, Senior Product Manager at MTS Markets Automation has become so imbedded in our ...
Lead : Best execution : Dan Barnes
The best execution conundrum Market structure, risk trading and the nature of time-limited instruments make reporting of best execution for bonds a challenge. Dan Barnes ...
Rates : Fully automatic? : Dan Barnes
Market volatility may shift rates back to voice in 2019 If predicted volatility pushes firms towards voice trading next year, rates traders will suffer from a heavier ...
Technology : Trader engagement : Dan Barnes
Helping traders to think like engineers The gap between the technology a trading team wants and the technology it gets is often wide; helping them to engage earlier in ...
Securities Financing : US repo : Lynn Strongin Dodds
T-Bills swamp the market but repo stays afloat Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the US repo market and how it is staying liquid. Views are divided over the health of the ...
Credit : Back for good : David Wigan
Cautious optimism on Dodd Frank roll-back. The US regulatory response to the financial crisis has shifted trading risk from sell-side to buy-side desks, making reform ...
Derivatives : Brexit : Fred Maple
The impact of Brexit on European versus US derivatives trading. Could the aftershock of Brexit land a win for the US? Fred Maple reports. Many of the attention-grabbing ...
Lead : BENCHmark Survey 2018
The DESK BENCHmark: Volumes down, efficiency up. Fewer traders are managing greater volumes of trading in rates, while the volume of electronic trading is increasing ...
Rates : Munis : Dan Barnes
Return of muni futures shows the market’s got moxie. The municipal bond market is addressing its problems head on and in doing so, defying regulatory intervention. Dan ...
