As electronic trading expands, many desks are moving from discretionary routing decisions to clearer, rules-based execution frameworks. Separating low-touch from high-touch flow and defining when and how to trade can improve discipline and reduce variability in outcomes. 

This session will explore how trading desks are designing and refining systematic execution frameworks, aligning protocol choice, counterparty selection and trade sizing with predefined rules to reduce variability and strengthen performance across market conditions. 

Automation, AI, data and new market structures are rapidly changing how fixed income trading is executed. But as new technologies and trading models emerge, the key question is where they genuinely add value to the execution process.

This fireside chat will explore how trading desks are adapting to these changes, from the growing role of TCA, data and interoperability to the evolving balance between low-touch and high-touch execution. The discussion will also consider how liquidity, execution quality and new approaches such as portfolio trading are reshaping decision-making, before looking ahead to how AI, automation and changing demographics could shape the trading desk of the future.

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