Fixed Income Leaders USA 2025 Blog

With the backdrop of volatile interest rates, wars, and political uncertainty, Jim Switzer at AllianceBernstein discusses the challenges of predicting markets this week and rather how his firm builds portfolios and trading strategies that are resilient to the fickle climate.

J.P. Morgan's Emma Lovett discusses why she thinks the bond markets are ripe for distributed ledger technology and where she sees this tech being applied to remove operational risks and inefficiencies, not only in settlement use cases but right across the front-to-back office.

Demand grows for Generative AI tools on the desk. Trading desks are under increasing pressure to manage and consume higher volumes of trade and issuance data in fixed income, creating a greater demand for sophisticated, generative AI-supported tools. Trader TV spoke to AJ Cass and Mary Beth Sweeney at LTX, A Broadridge Company, to discuss new developments in Gen AI solutions, like LTX's Bond GPT, and how they are enhanced and leveraged across the front office.

The municipal bond market is at an inflection point of electronification, and investment managers who are driving change can see incredible efficiency gains, which mean savings for their end investors. Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston, James Morris, senior VP at Investortools, Inc. tells Trader TV why the bid-ask spread for block and odd lot muni trades is converging, how investors managing separately managed accounts can engage without efficiency loss and why continued electronification is imperative.

Trader and dealer relationships are evolving to meet buy-side execution needs, particularly at a time when there is growing market uncertainty. Scott W. at JP Morgan spoke to Trader TV about the increasing adoption of electronification in FICC trading and how margin pressures are shaping buy-side demands and the way they interact with their dealers. Wacker looks at the critical importance of “trust” and price transparency in these partnerships and also unpacks the growing use of new technologies like artificial intelligence and where they are playing a role on the trading desk.

The move to a T+1 settlement period in the US creates commercial opportunities for sell-side firms with the right level of operational efficiency. To discuss how dealers can maximise the value of their investment in better systems through the first, middle and back office, Marc Natale of Murex spoke with Trader TV at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston, outlining which clients they can support, how investment in new tech is hitting the top line, and what the next steps are to deliver growth on the sell side.

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We recently surveyed the industry's leading professionals at FILS Connect, and 57% told us that they intend to invest in Electronic Market Makers (EMMs) in the next 6 months. But why?

As we move toward 2022 there are positive signs of economic recovery within the Fixed Income US market. Across the financial services industry, equities prices and global economic growth are on the rise and sustainability is very much top of the agenda for investors, especially following the 2021 COP 26 summit in Glasgow...

Market Alpha Advisors LLC’s Managing Principal, Michael Koegler, shares his perspectives and expertise on how buy side fixed income firms can best prepare themselves for the new LIBOR regulations changes due to take effect in the autumn of 2021.

Touted as the biggest regulatory shake-up in the European financial sector, MiFID II finally came into force in the first week of January, this year. While many see it as a game changer for the region’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) market, others believe that it is more of a whimper than a bang.

Over the last 10 years, global players that invested heavily in technological investments have seen sharp increases in market share. The reason? Technology helped them manage the market and service customers far better than their peers

Following stabilized real yields and controlled inflation, the global fixed income market seems to have finally returned to standard levels of volatility. Corporate bond markets have grown significantly over the past few years, while dealers’ appetite to stock bonds in the inventory to facilitate trade has reduced.