Agency Broker Hub : A look under the broker review hood
In this Agency Broker Hub column, Michelangelo Gigante, head of Execution Desk at Eurizon Capital SGR and Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo ...
Aité: Buy-side desk sophistication is driving EMS innovation
Spencer Mindlin, Aite.
EC suspends best execution reporting which is “not read at all”
Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President, European Commission
ESMA relaxes best ex reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has pushed back reporting of best execution by execution venues and trading firms, which are regulatory requirements ...
Bond traders report screen prices are off by 10%
Several buy-side fixed income traders have confirmed that electronic prices are currently around 10% off the price that bonds are actually trading at, creating problems ...
Liquidnet: Traders moving towards alpha capture
By Vineet Naik.
Latest ESMA data shows 439 liquid bonds
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has made available new data for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial ...
On the DESK : Cathy Gibson : Royal London
The buy side must be an active participant in shaping market structure if investors are to achieve the best returns, says Cathy Gibson. Biography: Cathy Gibson is head ...
Viewpoint : Best execution : Constantinos Antoniades & Rebecca Healey
A global gold standard of best execution – moving beyond MiFID II By Constantinos Antoniades, Head of Fixed Income, and Rebecca Healey, Head of EMEA Market Structure, ...
Derivatives : Exchange-traded products : Joel Clark
Why listed derivatives struggle to address risk Some traders have been critical of listed products designed to replicate OTC derivatives, but exchanges are working hard ...
ESMA publishes its first liquidity assessment for bonds
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its first liquidity assessment for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the ...
APAs and SmartStream RDU open Systematic Internaliser Registry to market
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), in collaboration with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs), including Bloomberg, Deutsche Boerse, NEX ...
The utopia of the consolidated fixed income tape
Lynn Strongin Dodds explains why Europe cannot look to TRACE as a role model. Developing a consolidated tape for fixed income in Europe was never going to be easy but ...
