Technology: Can EMS become a desktop trading venue?

Direct streaming of dealer prices could allow traders to bypass third party venues, if their desktop systems can be used to execute direct streams from dealers. Source: fidesk Execution management systems (EMSs) could become a focal point for direct connectivity with dealers on the buy-side desktop. To date they have often struggled to find a place…

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Tangible Returns From Bond Trade Automation

Adoption of automated trading continues apace across several bond markets and within different grades of instrument. Gareth Coltman, global head of automation at MarketAxess, gives traders an update on where and how they can tap into more automated bond trading, in order to deliver efficient and opportunistic execution, improved cost savings and improved desk efficiency….

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Bond Buyer Matching AI

Over the past two years, we have witnessed profound changes in the fixed income marketplace with counterparties increasingly adopting quantitative investing and liquidity risk monitoring techniques. These include adoption of new methods of analysis such as AI analytics like COBI-Matching algorithm. Source: Overbond Fixed Income Artificial Intelligence The financial services market is embracing digital processes…

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