On The DESK : Alex Brause : The central bank’s buy-side trader
Balancing leadership and discipline with greater autonomy in trading. Alexander Brause speaks to The DESK and explains his role as head of fixed income...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : UBS Bond Port
Adopting an agency approach has allowed UBS to deliver a service that has eluded many other banks via Bond Port.
As a result, the...
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How banks slash the cost of managing market fragmentation
A smart application of hardware, cloud and open source technology makes for efficient trading systems. The complexity of the fixed income market should not...
KfW taps Boerse Stuttgart Digital for digital bond blockchain infrastructure
Boerse Stuttgart Digital, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Europe, now provides the technical infrastructure for KfW, for its new blockchain-based...
Substantially higher US investment grade stress going into 2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Corporate Bond Market Distress Index (CMDI) is closing 2022 with investment grade US bond markets twice as distressed as...
Bloomberg backs Moroccan FX and govie market buildouts
The central bank of Morocco, Bank Al-Maghrib, has adopted Bloomberg’s Foreign Exchange Electronic Trading (FXGO) and E-bond (EBND) platforms.
The interbank derivatives market for foreign...
Sherpa Edge announces client go-live after summer; Lynge Jensen departure
Danish-based outsourced trading provider, Sherpa Edge, has confirmed it is in final negotiations with its first customer, a Danish asset manager, with which it...
Matthew Cousens joins Clear Street
Matthew Cousens has been appointed EMEA head of electronic execution at Clear Street. He is based in London.
Clear Street held US$49 billion in assets...
Digitization has changed EGB trading forever
Digitization has changed EGB trading forever
Roderick Joniaux, European Government Bonds (EGB) Product Manager, Tradeweb
Many of us have witnessed first-hand how new technologies have impacted financial...
SEC enacts security-based swap execution facilities registration rule
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created a regime for the registration and regulation of security-based swap execution facilities (SBSEFs).
The new regulatory...
Juan Landazabal appointed COO Investments at GAM
Veteran of fixed income trading, Juan Landazabal, was promoted to chief operations officer (COO) for investments at asset manager GAM at the end of...
BestEx Research launches no-code algo trading tool
BestEx Research Group, a provider of algorithmic execution and measurement solutions for equities, futures, and FX trading, has added a no-code algorithmic trading tool,...
