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Fixed Income Commentary & Analysis
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Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.Be the first to comment
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With major dealers shrinking their inventories of corporate bonds, buy side institutions are seeking ways to find liquidity over alternative trading platforms that are emerging to solve the liquidity shortfall.
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An 80-ton boulder that has only started to roll.
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The dialogue on big, diverse data has been changing in capital markets during the last few months, and for the better. Now firms are engaged in a process to harvest and exploit untapped knowledge, which is more about business insights or intelligence optimization -- BIO -- versus big data.
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Javier Kulesz will provide Nomura’s trading desk and institutional investors with his expert view on the macroeconomic forces affecting Argentina and Venezuela.
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The European electronic fixed income marketplace will allow the buy side to directly access prices and execute European and U.S. government, agency, mortgage, and corporate bonds with major dealers.
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A real estate boom faces some headwinds as commodity prices fall and mining cuts back, but across the globe sunnier skies for Florida's economic forecast could help the Aussie economy.
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In a world where trading alpha creates a competitive advantage, trading skills and acumen may be king, but trading tools are the great enabler and equalizer.
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Regulation of dark pool trading in Europe is still in progress, with equity investors closely watching actions by the European Commission, European Parliament and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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There is renewed move to integrate finance and risk data at sell-side firms for cash optimization and, equally as important, transparency. So how can you get these two groups to cooperate to achieve a unified view?
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In Part II of their series, Capco consultants examine Canada’s new rules on dark pools, comparing the similarities and differences in the way that dark pools are regulated in Canada versus the United States.
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The money manager is partnering with MarketAxess to seamlessly integrate its fixed income trading portal with BlackRock's Alladin system to source liquidity in corporate bonds, while nixing plans for its own buy-side crossing network.
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There is no doubt that the regulatory reforms under way will change the way European market participants trade fixed income. Forward-thinking market participants should prepare for requirements relating to clearing, trade reporting, transparency, and regulation of trading venues, and certainly a move towards electronic trading.
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The new committee will share best practices in electronic and algorithmic trading across asset classes and make decisions on investments in systems for competitive advantage.
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We asked respondents how their firm determines total cost of ownership (TCO) for their current infrastructure. Of the two-thirds who have no capability to determine TCO, my favorite response from them was, "Huh?"
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As buy side firms scramble for liquidity in corporate bonds, a new report Tabb Group lays out the need for a new price discovery mechanism with new tools and pricing sources to replace traditional phone-based quoting.
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The exchange operator's plans to acquire the electronic trading platform for U.S. Treasury bonds and notes raised concerns with analysts at credit rating agencies. But the move will also diversify Nasdaq away from stocks into fixed income products.
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Global investors grew more cautious this month, reacting to the crisis in Cyprus by adding to safe-haven bond positions, though cash buffers fell to a two-year low, Reuters monthly poll of asset managers showed on Thursday.
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In the wake of its spinoff from Citigroup as an internal hedge fund unit, Napier Park Global Capital chose Options' infrastructure-as-a service offering as its technology platform.
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NASDAQ OMX conducted a survey of 44 capital markets firms and technology providers in February 2013, to determine cloud adoption rates, activity and existing concerns inhibiting adoption.
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PT Schroders Investment Management Indonesia will use Omgeo's central trade matching services to communicate trade details with broker/dealer counterparies, while advocating post-trade automation to Indonesian broker community.
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We should be honest about our true objectives.
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While the US is showing signs of life, Europe remains flat and India is starting to slow.
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Nasdaq OMX partnered with BondDesk for providing real-time pricing to PHLX's newly launched options on U.S. Treasuries, and member firms will execute in the underlying bonds on the BondDesk ATS.
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Advise Technologies discusses the upcoming Form PF filing deadline on March 1st for large hedge funds.
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