CMSA – The drive to change industry dialogue in corporate bond markets
To create a wider dialogue around industry change, the Credit Market Structure Alliance (CMSA) is building an event with a democratic agenda.
The DESK: Why...
Derivatives: Credit default swaps – The revival
Applying innovation from corporate bond markets to credit derivatives trading could boost liquidity at a point of market stress.
Single-name credit default swaps (CDSs) provide...
Are interdealer markets dead?
So-called ‘interdealer’ markets have long been used by large buy-side firms. This well-known secret creates inequality for those investment firms barred from participating, and...
The best of both worlds
Gonzalo Gómez Retuerto, Head Fixed Income and MARF (Mercado Alternativo de Renta Fija) at SIX Group’s BME talks about plans for SMEs, ESG and integration.
How is...
On The DESK: Divide and conquer
The DESK interviews the team delivering continuous management of trading, for the world’s largest collective assets under management.
• Dan Veiner is Co-Head of Global...
Trading: Loans and ABS: The fixed income markets time forgot
Trading in the less liquid parts of the fixed income market has remained relatively untouched by electronification.
Loans and securitised products backed by loans can...
Technology: What large language models do to the trading desk
LLMs are already adding value to trading teams.
The advent of Open AI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) tool has generated as many column inches...
Project Amber: Dealer consortium developing new bond trading venue
A consortium of sell-side firms is developing a trading platform in the fixed income space, which could rival existing venues including Bloomberg, MarketAxess and...
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)...
FILS 2022: Meeting in the eye of tempestuous markets
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit is convening in Nice in the midst of a turbulent market, driven by a combination of rampant inflation, government...
