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The future of fixed income trading: AI, liquidity and data standards
The future of fixed income trading is being shaped by AI, electronic trading, fragmented liquidity and the growing amount of information sitting inside trading conversations.
In this episode of the Capital Markets FinTech Forum, Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, speaks with Matthew Coupe, Head of Fixed Income Sales & Product at Susquehanna and Co-Chair of the EMEA Fixed Trading Community.
They discuss how liquidity in European credit markets is changing, why fixed income still depends heavily on trust and relationships, and how AI is making previously unstructured information from chat and voice conversations searchable and actionable.
The conversation also explores the growing problem of information overload in trading chat rooms, the role of humans in curating market information, hybrid human and automated trading desks, post-trade workflows, and why data standards remain critical in an AI-driven financial market.
Key topics covered
- The changing liquidity landscape in European credit
- The rise of electronic trading in fixed income
- AI and the future of trading chat
- Turning unstructured conversations into structured data
- Information overload in financial markets
- Humans vs automation on the trading desk
- Building trust as a new market entrant
- Why data standards are critical for AI
- AI-driven trade capture and workflow automation
- The future of fixed income trading
Matthew Coupe
Head of Fixed Income Sales & Product, EMEA, Susquehanna
Matthew Coupe leads fixed income sales and product for EMEA at Susquehanna in London and co-chairs the EMEA Regional Committee of the FIX Trading Community. Before joining Susquehanna's fixed income team in 2025 he spent nine years at Barclays, most recently as Global Head of Cross-Asset Market Structure. He has served on the FCA Secondary Markets Advisory Committee, the CFTC Global Market Structure Sub-Committee and the board of the FMSB. Earlier roles include NICE Actimize, Redkite Financial Markets, FTEN, Turquoise and Ullink.