Sean Shanker swaps Citi for BTIG
Financial services firm BTIG has appointed Sean Shanker as a managing director for electronic trading.
In the New York-based role, Shanker will lead new initiatives...
The European Women in Finance Awards: Nominations close on 2 September 2022
Celebrate the success of the foremost female financiers at The European Women in Finance Awards 2022, to be held on Thursday 13th October 2022...
SOLVE’s Ticker boosts muni market price transparency
SOLVE, provider of pre-trade quotes data across fixed income markets, has rolled out ‘Ticker’, its municipal market data offering as part of the SOLVE...
Automation in the life-cycle of a trade
By Oliver Clark, Head of Product Development, MTS.
The role of the fixed income trader is radically and rapidly transforming. As more workflow shifts onto...
The reward of risk
By Larry E. Fondren, Founder & CEO, DelphX Capital Markets Inc.
Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the effective cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement...
Allegra Berman to leave HSBC
Allegra Berman will leave HSBC at the end of September, according to an internal memo seen by The DESK.
Berman joined the firm in 2013,...
DCM deals substantially up year-on-year
Total deal size volume for debt capital markets, year-to-date is up 32% on 2023, according to data from Dealogic.
The trend in regional deals has...
PGIM: Research indicates liquidity event is tail risk with greatest impact
In a survey of 400 senior investment decision-makers at institutional investors in Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US with a combined...
The big changes to watch in fixed income market structure through 2024
Next year will bring new developments in market structure, stemming both from regulatory and political change. The DESK asked Jennifer Keser, head of market...
European Women in Finance: Isabelle Girolami – A fresh attitude to risk
Isabelle Girolami has been CEO of LCH Ltd. since 1 November 2019. She has since had to deal with a global pandemic requiring employees...
SOFR is off to the races
By Colm Murtagh, Head of U.S. Institutional Rates, Tradeweb.
There are (surely) more obviously thrilling ways to celebrate a new year, but in many ways, the market...
Exclusive: Stacey Parsons joins PrimaryBid
Capital markets technology firm, PrimaryBid, has appointed Stacey Parsons as managing director and head of fixed income. Parsons’ appointment is expected to accelerate PrimaryBid’s...
