Coalition Greenwich: 0% impact of ESG on bond trade execution - but is there a benchmark?
According to new research from Coalition Greenwich, 0% of US-based buy-side bond traders report that environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacted their choice of ...
Euronext brings MTS tech in-house with Nexi acquisition
Euronext Group has bought the Nexi technology businesses currently powering MTS, Euronext’s leading fixed-income trading platform, and Euronext Securities Milan, ...
Seth Johnson joins LedgerEdge in senior advisory role
Bond-trading platform, LedgerEdge, has appointed Seth Johnson to the firm as a senior advisor. Johnson will focus on commercial plan and growth, including business ...
UBS: The client-led dealer driving best execution
Traditional sell-side firms can engage most effectively in fixed income by enabling, rather than pushing, buy-side strategy. As markets face considerable operational ...
Cboe: What an institutional trader needs to know about FI ETFs and futures
Where instrument selection can be key, understanding cash and derivatives instruments and the interplay between them is invaluable. The DESK spoke with Joyce Choi, ...
APG selects FlexTrade for multi-asset execution
APG Asset Management (APG) has selected FlexTrade’s execution management platform, FlexTRADER EMS, to consolidate and streamline its multi-asset execution management ...
The liquidity bears’ picnic
If you are on the desk, there is often an inverse relationship between the tension you experience and the volume of people relaxing on holiday. For example, European ...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side desk budgets hit US$2 million per year
The average buy-side trading desk budget is just over $2 million annually, inclusive of both technology and compensation, with roughly one-third allocated to technology ...
SGX CDP live with Marketnode DLT direct-to-depository service for bond issuers
Singapore Exchange’s Central Depository (SGX CDP) has made a blockchain-enabled bond issuance platform available to market participants. Developed by Marketnode, an SGX ...
Credit Market Structure Alliance: The real market agenda
The CMSA, invitation-only event, is setting an agenda based on market professionals’ concerns, and has captured a groundswell of interest. The DESK: What has been the ...
MiFID II Review: EC could allow payment for order flow in Europe
An ongoing review of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has seen debate on the ...
Arteria AI gets strategic investment co-led by Citi SPRINT and BDC Capital
Arteria AI, an enterprise digital documentation specialist, has received strategic investments from Citi Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT), the strategic ...
Parameta Solutions offers access to SURFIX via BT Radianz Cloud
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of global inter-dealer broker TP ICAP, is partnering with BT Radianz Cloud, a cloud community for capital markets, to ...
Denmark FSA investigating bond funds' double-figure losses
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Global investor confidence rises, European confidence falls
State Street Global Markets has found that, despite recent market fluctuations, the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for May 2022 increased to 97.1, up 4.8 ...
