Laurent Ischi is director at fixed-income technology vendor Tradeweb, and Singapore-based director of AiEx, Tradeweb’s toolkit for workflows to automate trading and execution. He speaks with DigFin‘s Jame DiBiasio about trends in automating Asia’s markets for bonds, swaps, and FX, and how the region’s asset managers are using technology to create new ways to trade and to measure dealer performance. Timecodes: 0:00 – Laurence Ischi and introducing Tradeweb 2.35 – impetus for asset owners to go electronic in fixed income 4:20 – products seeing most adoption of automated execution 7:30 – who’s driving automation in Asia, the sell side or the buy side? 9:10 – where’s the biggest change taking place in Asia Pacific? 11:32 – the knock-on effects of automating a market 14:06 – what kind of people and skills do firms seek? 16:00 – advantages to being an early adopter of automation, particularly interest rate swaps 18:38 – global trends such as benchmarks and T+1 21:51 – data value-adds and measuring dealer performance 25:11 – taking advantage of market idiosyncrasies 26:48 – where to find liquidity in APAC fixed income