The TRADE

MAY 14, 2024

Erste Asset Management, part of Erste Group Bank, has become the latest European client to join Clearwater Analytics’ buy-side community. The development will see Clearwater aggregate multi-asset client investment data, help increase asset flows and improve client service. “We

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Eurex Clearing announced it was shutting down its Securities Lending CCP service in 2021 following low clearing volumes and a prioritisation of other businesses. In Europe, there have been multiple failed attempts to successfully introduce and maintain SFT clearing.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. She will report directly to Marie Jacot, global head of distribution at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, and will be based between Frankfurt and Geneva.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

He also previously served as managing director at both American Express Bank International and Deutsche Bank, Argentina. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. Before that, she co-founded Vicenda Asset Management in Zug, Switzerland.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2025

Citi has promoted John McLean to head of equity capital markets (ECM) and global asset managers (GAM) for Australia and New Zealand following more than two decades at the firm. Speaking about his new appointment, McLean said: I am excited to be returning to Australia to lead the ECM and GAM businesses.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has moved to expand its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading, The TRADE can reveal. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

What do medium to big-sized businesses have? Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has expanded its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2024

Elsewhere, Sherlock most recently served in a European equity sales role since 2021. Hepsworth was appointed to the desk at the London-headquartered asset manager after spending the last four and a half years at MarketAxess in a facilitation trading role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

Dean Catton has been selected to take the helm for the asset manager’s European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business. He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in a risk management and product control role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

BlackRock promoted Dean Catton to take the helm for its European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business. Catton joined BlackRock in 2021 from Banco Santander where he had been a credit trader for four and a half years.

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The Deal

MAY 2, 2023

Altamont Capital Partners is braving an eerily quiet market to relaunch a sale process for its fumigation chemicals business Douglas Products LLC, five sources familiar with the matter said. What’s left of Douglas Products — after Altamont sliced off wastewater services business Duke’s Root Control Inc.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

State Street selected one of its own to head up its global markets business for continental Europe. Prior to joining State Street in 2021, she previously served for more than 17 years at UBS across Zurich, London and Singapore and at Credit Suisse. All three additions join from the former Numis US business.

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The Deal

JUNE 22, 2023

Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to acquire waste services provider Coastal Waste & Recycling Inc. Macquarie later confirmed it had picked up a majority stake in the business. for an undisclosed sum, continuing a spree of waste and environmental services deals in early 2023. Houlihan Lokey Inc. was co-adviser.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Former BlackRock Aladdin business development managing director for EMEA, Keith Viverito, joined Clearwater Analytics to support its global expansion plans. Viverito joined Clearwater as managing director for EMEA and will be responsible for strengthening the firm’s go to market strategy in the region and Asia Pacific.

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Peak Frameworks

AUGUST 16, 2023

SMU is home to the Cox School of Business , a highly regarded business school that is home to several unique programs. Of note, Cox has a dedicated Alternative Asset Management Program , which is a consistent feeder into great finance and investing jobs. The Southern Methodist University is one of the most underrated U.S.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2023

In Europe, there have been multiple failed attempts to successfully introduce and maintain SFT clearing, with the most recent high-profile cautionary tale coming through Eurex Clearing which announced it was shutting down its Securities Lending CCP service in 2021 as a result of low clearing volumes and a prioritisation of other businesses.   Despite (..)

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. It’s been busy. Our business is relationship-based and complex whether it is market making or investment banking and origination deal making. There’s been a reopening in capital markets.

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

Firms have lowered hold sizes and increased loan prices as they lean toward smaller transactions, team up with other lenders on deals, shy away from unfunded debt and turn up scrutiny on business performance. HPS Investment Partners LLC , for instance, closed its second Core Senior Lending fund with $7.3 billion in commitments in June.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. When people have ownership in their function and they can see their contribution to the business, that really motivates them to make sure that they are constantly improving,” she explains. “In

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 24, 2024

As industrial businesses look ahead to better times, they’re accelerating their pursuit of digital transformation in manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Over the last decade, the industrial business landscape has undergone significant change, propelled by the push for digital transformation in manufacturing and the advent of Industry 4.0

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Accenture Capital Markets

AUGUST 23, 2022

At the same time, competition is intensifying across the industry—from traditional wealth managers, asset managers, insurers, workplace providers, independent advisors, banks and new wealth techs. These forces are compelling all wealth managers to deal with compressed change—the kind that comes at you rapidly and all at once.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Finding fixed income After spending three months as a trading assistant intern at PPM America, Raymond landed his first permanent buy-side position, joining UBS Asset Management as an operations assistant in 2003. In his first role at LGIM, Raymond was responsible for overseeing its credit trading business out of the US.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A There are no prescribed measures for any particular asset class at any given time. You had the gilt crisis.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Subject to regulatory approvals, the service will come through its Amsterdam-based clearing house and introduce matching, CCP clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management for SFT transactions in European cash equities and ETFs, and settlement will take place in 19 European Central Securities Depositories (CSDs).

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Mobile devices and social media have changed the way that businesses connect with their customers and employees. Tools such as video conferencing, instant messaging, collaborative platforms, project management software, and HR management software are widely used to improve productivity, collaboration, and efficiency.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Not that the seemingly never-ending list of aforementioned market occurrences had noticeably hindered the prime business. Those are the relatively commoditised parts of the business. If you look at what those firms need in terms of prime-related services, well, cash PB and synthetics are just the basics.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique asset manager Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment portfolio analyst in London in 1986, Ruffles has seen the markets through several highs and lows. In Europe, for our style of business we don’t use portfolio trading that much. A novel concept to greener traders.

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Razorpay

JANUARY 3, 2024

A payment aggregator is a third-party service provider that enables customers to make and businesses to accept payments online. To enable various payment methods on your own, your business would have to partner with various banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). What is a Payment Aggregator?

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Solganick & Co.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

February 2024: As part of the aftershocks of Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization giant VMware in 2023, private equity firm KKR announced a deal to buy VMware’s End User Computing business for approximately $4 billion. The company went public in 2021 but was reportedly in acquisition talks with Thoma Bravo as early as 2022.

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The TRADE

JULY 6, 2023

Speaking to the key considerations for the European buy-side community, Susan Yavari, regulatory policy advisor – capital markets at European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) highlighted that identifying potential pain points is the overarching focus.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Its role and the way it interacts with institutional investors differs region to region. Looking into this sector, which is set to experience highly anticipated, yet arguably unpredictable, growth – note the GameStop saga of 2021 – The TRADE deep dives into some of the key considerations.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 7, 2024

She says she loves two things about what she does; the first is that “SaaS is valued on revenues (versus profits), so hard work gets multiplied much more than in other businesses.” Their platform assists businesses in managing inventory, sales, and customer transactions.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 7, 2024

She says she loves two things about what she does; the first is that “SaaS is valued on revenues (versus profits), so hard work gets multiplied much more than in other businesses.” Their platform assists businesses in managing inventory, sales, and customer transactions.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 7, 2024

She says she loves two things about what she does; the first is that “SaaS is valued on revenues (versus profits), so hard work gets multiplied much more than in other businesses.” Their platform assists businesses in managing inventory, sales, and customer transactions.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. “We Workflow really matters in this business.

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