Technology: The real reason you cannot get a new trading system
Lynn Strongin Dodds investigates the barriers to adopting new technology. Technological advances may be developing at breakneck speed but many of the barriers of ...
Data: Are you part of the data disenfranchised?
Where some firms advocate ‘democratising’ data others struggle to capture, process or access data which is crucial to supporting the business. Creating access to data, ...
Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
Viewpoint: A deep, broad stream of data
Deutsche Börse is quenching the thirst of innovators with a flow of data from source, reaching across assets and markets. Anya van den Berg, vice president of data and ...
Viewpoint: Technology and the evolution of fixed income trading
Steve Toland, co-founder TransFICC The fixed income and derivatives market is evolving, rapidly migrating away from the phone onto electronic venues. Electronic trading ...
Neptune 2.0 – How the new platform will deliver better investment and trading
Axe distribution service, Neptune, is evolving through a transformation of underlying technology, elevating its services to a new level. Neptune’s CEO, John ‘Coach’ ...
Industry viewpoint: Forging fixed income's future
How technology is enabling data-driven execution and analytics. In recent years, the electronification of fixed income (FI) markets has been followed by the development ...
Research: Fixed Income TCA Survey 2022
Better integration into trading workflow The DESK’s execution research survey into fixed income TCA 2022. Our research took in 40 major asset management firms’ use of, ...
The Agency Broker Hub | An open gateway into financial markets
By Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, Head of Market Hub, and Barbara Valbuzzi, CFA, Head of Market Strategy, IMI CIB Division, Intesa Sanpaolo. In recent years the sellside has ...
Industry viewpoint: How to build a better picture of the global fixed income markets
Guido Galassi, Head of Data & Cash Product, MTS In volatile market conditions, more accessible and meaningful data has become critical to navigating the path to ...
On The DESK: What it takes to build a multi-asset trading team
Since becoming global head of trading at Schroders, Gregg Dalley has helped his teams become a single, multi-asset trading unit. The DESK: What is your team’s current ...
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, ...
