Trading through the lens of COVID 19
Countermeasures to tackle COVID 19 and the pandemic itself are changing our view of risk at a macro, firm-wide and…
Videos
Find our monthly shows across equities and fixed income below.
Investors are already benefitting from auto bond trading
Consistent execution quality, reduced bias and greater resources to handle complex trades are all advantages that KBC Asset Management has…
Optimising remote working for traders
Remote working is breaking up the physical communication and workflows that buy-side traders and portfolio managers use in the office.…
Buy-side trading skills make bond ETFs and mutual funds safer for investors
The levels of volatility in markets are making it harder to price the underlying instruments in any fund. The buy-side…
The 2020 liquidity crisis: How traders can handle it
The liquidity crisis in March 2020, brought on by a combination of coronavirus, oil trade wars and the central bank…
How to build low-touch, multi-asset trading desks
Leading asset managers are building low-touch, multi-asset trading desks to deliver automation wherever possible. Building automation into the trading process…
Data analysis is core skill for trading desks
New research by Greenwich Associates in partnership with Refinitiv (read the report here: https://refini.tv/37biTXb) found that traders see data analysis…
How to build automation into your FX workflow
The ‘nuisance’ trades that asset managers have to handle in foreign exchange create a complex web of orders for long-only…
FX liquidity is changing, be careful
The timing of foreign exchange trades, their market impact and explicit costs must all be considered by asset managers’ trading…
Managing ‘data risk’ for bond traders
If data is mismanaged on the trading desk, it can trigger individual trading errors or even flash crashes. Jon Williams,…
Could trading become fully transparent?
Total transparency might intimidate some traders, but honesty creates better performance, says Paul Squires, head of trading EMEA equities and…
Regulators need to rethink leverage ratio for repo markets
If balance sheet restraints prevent banks from providing repo liquidity, but asset managers are labelled ‘shadow bankers’ for peer-to-peer repo…