With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up 34% year-on-year, the only feasible way to meet this demand is to price and quote bonds faster than a human could via point-and-click, finds Coalition Greenwich report. By Wesley Bray Building on top of the increased electronification of the US corporate bond market over the past decade, trading…
The DESK discusses effective systematic trading, the benefits to end investors, and the skills needed to create and run systematic workflows with Chris Minck, BlackRock’s EMEA head of systematic execution, and Meredith Herold, CEO of BlackRock execution services and global head of systematic execution. Operations 1. What are the precursors to effective systematic trading in…
In the build up to the 2024 iteration of The TRADE’s Algorithmic Trading Survey, Hedge Funds, Claudia Preece takes a deeper look at last year’s findings which saw execution performance experience the largest year-over-year decline in terms of ratings from users of any category, falling 1.60, while ‘better pricing’ jumped from 7.36 to 8.25. By Claudia Preece…
Tame CPI data send investors back into beaten-down regional-bank stocks, while yields fall on bank bonds. Bank stocks held on to gains on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept rates steady and a tame monthly inflation gauge sparked optimism in the sector. Advances in bank stocks were more muted than earlier in the session, when…
Global head of macro e-trading at JP Morgan says the survey results signal traders’ confidence around liquidity for 2024, driven by advances in electronic trading. Traders’ concerns have migrated away from liquidity access and re-focused on inflation for 2024, JP Morgan’s latest annual e-trading survey has found. Roughly 30% of traders across asset classes pegged…
Analysts and economists expect long-term rates in the U.S. to trade within a range possibly driving a search for yield in emerging markets, however, some advisors remain unconvinced and choose to take risks only in stocks, using low-risk, high-quality bond investments to balance a portfolio. Source: CNBC A good reason to buy the bonds of…
The Economist article featuring Overbond AI capabilities that establish the bridge between investment banking and trading worlds. Bankers can get in front of the deal flow using Overbond predictive analytics and fixed income investors can get relative value view and pre-trade analytics. Source: The Economist With the exception of a few governments big enough to run…
Siemens core industrial division reported that its quarterly profit fell as renewable energy continued to infiltrate its gas-and-oil business, on a global scale. Source: MarketWatch The closely watched industrial division at Siemens AG, which makes traditional power-generation equipment, recorded a 14% drop in profit in the three months to Dec. 31. Leading suppliers to the power sector,…
The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries hit 3 percent for the first time in more than four years. Its breach of the threshold helped focus investors on the rising risks for equities. Source: The Globe and Mail The march higher in bond yields reached a critical level on Tuesday that could prompt portfolio managers…
Fintech has untapped potential to boost revenues at CIBs. Fixed Income pricing stands to benefit the most with tools currently in use that use real-time data to help bond traders decide when to transact and at what price. Source: The Banker Of the $30bn invested globally in fintech in 2017, just 6% went to primary…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
