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FILS IN PHILLY
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6 Automation an increasingly dominant

theme for sell-side fixed income
participants
Speakers from Goldman Sachs, Tradeweb and MarketAxess
detailed how their organisations are using automation to
enhance efficiencies and outcomes for the fixed income markets
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BlackRock fixed income trading chief backs
role of sell-side partnerships
Dan Veiner, BlackRock’s global head of fixed income trading,
told delegates that relationships with the sell-side remain
important to the buy-side
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Buy-side increasingly taking on price-maker
role in fixed income
Speakers from T. Rowe Price and PIMCO told delegates that as
the market structure evolves the buy-side continue to act as
price-makers
10 Artificial intelligence and talent

management to drive the evolution of buy-

side strategies
BlackRock’s Supurna VedBrat also highlighted the changing role
of the trader as fixed income markets evolve
11 Communication the key ingredient to

improving buy- and sell-side relationships
Panelists say that consistent, open communication between
the buy- and sell-side is vital to evolvings

Buy-side trading heads scorn use of
transaction cost analysis for fixed income
AXA’s Lee Sanders and Pictet’s Carl James reject use of TCA in
fixed income markets due to nature of products compared to
equities
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