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Systematic Credit Trading Changes the Buy/Sell-Side Dynamic

Firms need the right data to support the decision making process in a low touch manner, and they need analytical capabilities.

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Matthias Zwicker, Swiss National Bank

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Trading protocols: Pros and cons of two-way prices in fixed income

with Angus McDiarmid, managing director at Tradeweb, and Matthias Zwicker, deputy head of fixed income trading for asset management at Swiss National...

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Dan Veiner, BlackRock

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Divide and Conquer

The DESK interviews the team delivering continuous management of trading, for the world’s largest collective assets under management.

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Liz Kirby, Tradeweb

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Market Structure: New risk and liquidity in the US Treasury market

Significant changes in counterparties and market structure have transformed US Treasury market activity.

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Audrey Blater, Coalition Greenwich

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Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side data spend sees highest growth in fixed income

Buy-side asset managers expect spending on fixed income data to rise by 13% in the next year.

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Research: Analytics use in trading workflow increases by 72% over three years

Effectiveness for reporting and desk performance assessment improves year-on-year.

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Yannig Loyer, AXA Investment Managers

11 min read

Engineering better trading

Honing the trading function is an art; it requires an engineer’s eye for improving systems but a leader’s eye for putting the team first.

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Primary markets: Give me some credit: Outlook for bond issuance

Assessing the negative side of positive rates, as well as underlying drivers of issuance.

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Putting Trading at the Head of the Table

WITH Frans de Wit, HEAD OF TRADING, PGGM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

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Did UBS/CS deal terms just revalue the entire AT1 bond market?

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Did UBS/CS deal terms just revalue the entire AT1 bond market?

Buy-side trading desks are looking at the risk of contagion across financials, following the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse by UBS

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