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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, ...
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 ...
The Trading Intentions Survey 2022
New platforms and late bloomers are all seeing greater interest. This year buy-side desks have a renewed vigour for investing in trading tools, with far higher ...
Analysis of The DESK: This year's complete research into buy-side bond trading desks
Download our report on buy-side bond-trading activity based on primary research conducted over the last 12 months.
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 ...
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 ...
Survey: Are there missed opportunities in fixed income TCA?
Based on their own view of TCA success, buy-side traders could apply analytics to support trading and execution goals. The DESK has found that fewer than half of ...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : Neptune
Neptune has expanded its user base to 36% of buy-side traders in 2021 up from 29% in 2020, a considerable increase and one that reflects its steady strategy.
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : MarketAxess
Consistently rated as the most effective platform for finding liquidity in the corporate bond market, MarketAxess has frequently been ahead of the market in terms of its ...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : Profiles
Bloomberg Bloomberg has the highest penetration of any provider into the buy-side fixed income trading desk. This year has seen it significantly revise charges to ...
The DESK's Trading Intentions Survey 2021
This year sees tighter pipelines for new business and a wider array of trading protocols. Executive summary One year on from the sell-off in Q1 2020, engagement with ...
The DESK Research: Which trading protocols are buy-side firms using?
Primary research finds a distinct break between trading for active and passive portfolios across non-comp trading and auto-execution.
Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
Will Mitting, founder and managing director of Acuiti.
Meet the new market makers
The DESK profiles six of the major electronic liquidity providers. Non-traditional market makers were seen to offer liquidity when many dealers pulled back in 2020. ...
Brexit & Covid: Keep your eye on the ball
Jannah Patchay, Markets Evolution