SEC’s proposals create competitive opportunities
Responses to the wide ranging proposals posited by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in US equity markets last week have raised questions but...
EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners
Execution management system (EMS) provider TradingScreen has been bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings to a...
ASX loses AUS$250 million on failed blockchain settlement project
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has pulled its project to replace its existing settlement system, CHESS, with a blockchain-based settlement system.
The project, which has...
What banks’ primary success can tell us about their priorities in 2022
When looking at the revenues of investment banks in Q3 2021, using Greenwich Coalition data, we can see that secondary market trading in fixed...
Neptune providing real-time bond inventory data to Charles River
Charles River Development and Neptune Networks are collaborating to provide buy-side clients of Charles River’s Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) with aggregated, real-time...
What’s the fuss about… New capital rules?
What’s all this fuss about new capital rules? The US Federal Reserve has decided that some banks, with over US$100 billion in assets, need...
Bid-ask spreads drop 25% on average in many markets
The cost of liquidity as measured by the bid-ask spread in bond trading has fallen by approximately 25% since the start of the year,...
Tradeweb, Euroclear and Informa Global Markets collaborate on bond issuance
Market operator Tradeweb, international central securities depositary Euroclear and data provider Informa Global Markets (IGM) are collaborating to automate the security identification and setup...
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, director...
Are your traders for hire?
Growing numbers of asset managers are hiring third parties to provide their trading desks. Dan Barnes investigates.
Fixed income funds are under increasing pressure to...
Viewpoint: John Robinson & Byron Cooper-Fogarty
Sharpening the axe: Neptune sees expanding opportunity for buy- and sell-side.
Buy-side firms are consuming more data than ever and Neptune is well placed to ensure...
Tushara Fernando leads enterprise engineering at Man
Man Group has appointed Tushara Fernando as managing director and head of enterprise engineering.
Fernando has more than a decade of industry experience and has...
