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Download the Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit Focused Agenda today!Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit APAC is happening this 17 - 19 September 2019 @ The Westin, Singapore.

Mr Sam Ahmed, Managing Director from Deriv Asia, shares his view on the challenges faced in the Asian market, and potential of using digitalisation as a means to overcome them.

Forex Datasource provides a 2019 look at the rapid growth of trading volume in Chinese currencies across FX products and jurisdictions, as contrasts the much larger number of Chinese banks acting as FX market participants today in a context of rocky U.S.-China relations.

Fixed Income & FX APAC is the perfect place to network with the industry's who's who. See who has registered this year!

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Bond ETFs have transformed how all investors access fixed income markets. But the movement is only beginning. Until iShares pioneered bond ETFs in 2002, ordinary investors had few low-cost options for building diversified bond portfolios on their own, especially in areas such as corporate and emerging-market debt. The first bond ETFs gave all investors efficient, convenient tools for targeting fixed income assets during the relevant trading day. BlackRock believes that global bond ETF assets are well positioned to double, to US$2 trillion, by the end of 2024—thanks to four long-term trends, which we will examine in this paper.

With 68.5% buyside on our attendee list, Fixed Income & FX APAC is the industry’s number one event for buyer to seller ratio. What does this mean for you? Happy, less hounded potential customers. We’re not a trade show. Don’t risk getting lost in the vendor circus at other events. We’re the only event to provide a buyer to seller ratio of 3:1.

Providing a unique insight into the fixed income market via a snapshot of both fixed income flows and holdings indicators, extracted from a wider data set that represents $10 trillion of assets, and PriceStats®, an innovative inflation tool tracking daily price changes of millions of online items.

In today’s data-driven environment, to achieve firm growth goals, the front office needs to be able to act quickly with new business and new instruments, while adjusting to changing regulation. Accurate information and data are vital to accomplish this, and they need to work within the constraints dictated by the current state of the industry. In other words, without adding to operational costs.

In Q3 2018, WBR Insights was commissioned by Fitch Solutions to conduct research with 300 Asset Managers in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific to better understand their thoughts and strategies for navigating multiple cycles successfully.

To discover what the key industry players are planning over the short to mid-term, we have compiled the findings from our latest survey conducted with the attendees (senior buy side fixed income professionals) of Fixed Income Leaders APAC Summit 2017.This study was designed to offer the industry a benchmark and the following graphs provide insights into some of the key challenges, the hottest topics and spend priorities for some of the leading buy side companies operating in Asia.

Fixed income markets are in the process of radical change, with regulation, innovation and new entrants completely shaking up the market structure. In an asset class where trades have conventionally occurred bilaterally, the ways in which buy side and sell side traders interact is changing as the search for liquidity continues. This study was designed to offer the industry a benchmark. To identify the key challenges, spend priorities and trading strategies which the buy side is undertaking to adapt to new fixed income markets.

This follow-on report examines the readiness of buy- and sell-side players for the legislative changes coming into force in January 2018, and predicts fundamental changes in the investment research environment as online research marketplaces (ORMs) make their mark.

This study was designed to offer an industry benchmark - Identifying the key challenges, spend priorities and trading strategies the buy-side are undertaking to adapt to new fixed income markets. This survey was completed by 100 senior buy-side fixed income professionals made up primarily of Heads of Fixed Income Trading, CEOs and senior management from leading asset managers and hedge funds.