The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. There’s been a reopening in capital markets. It’s been busy. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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Funds Capital Capital Market S&P 59

The Deal

AUGUST 15, 2023

’s Competition and Markets Authority continued review of its Activision Blizzard Inc. “Sony is probably the most likely company to go looking for a big publisher,” Neil Barbour of S&P Global Inc. ‘s (SPGI) Kagan said in an email. billion purchase of Activision in the first quarter of 2022.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Rival fixed income trading venue Bloomberg launched its global all-to-all bond trading service in 2022. Usually hosted by bulge bracket banks, SIs are an internalising mechanism that allow banks to execute flow over the counter or off exchange. The first ETF to launch in the US was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) in 1993.

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Trading Investors IT S&P 120

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1] in 2022 to 5.9x

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