The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

RBC has appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team, The TRADE can reveal. James Hilton has been appointed multi-asset managing director in RBC’s low touch team, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. Prior to his tenure at Deutsche Bank, Wilkes spent six years at JP Morgan as an executive director of futures and options and OTC clearing sales.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

Peel Hunt Peel Hunt’s head of electronic and program trading Nishad Vallonthaiel is departing for pastures new, The TRADE can reveal. Vallonthaiel was appointed head of electronic and program trading at Peel Hunt in 2023 after most recently serving at Numis Securities.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, at Liberum are set to join Investec in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk. Lowres joins Investec as head of electronic trading and execution strategy after almost 17 years with Liberum.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2024

Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based asset manager has undergone not one but three makeovers in recent years as it continues to evolve with the demands of the street. Instead, they favour electronic methods to find mid-point block liquidity.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Among the major changes is the Basel III ‘endgame’ update, the widely anticipated capital requirements hike for Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs). This is a timing problem which causes issues on T+1 if there are any trade discrepancies between the asset manager and the executing broker.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 28, 2023

UBS shakes up execution services management team structure People moves are always one of our biggest draws in readership, and in October, UBS’ plans to make changes within its execution services business , specifically the electronic trading area, became one of most read stories of the year.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

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. UBS has chosen Aleksandar Ivanovic to succeed Suni Harford as president of asset management upon her departure, with the appointment effective from 1 March.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

and Lloyds Banking Group, before joining J O Hambro in 2018. Asset manager Ninety One promoted from within for its new deputy global head of trading and head of trading for South Africa. The post People Moves Monday: J O Hambro Capital Management, Ninety One, Credit Suisse and Capital Group appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JULY 19, 2024

What is driving the purported ‘comeback’ of traditional asset managers? This alone was enough to make institutional asset managers wary of making moves. However, macroeconomic uncertainty, particularly due to historic inflationary pressures and rising yields, kept traditional asset managers cautious.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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MARCH 11, 2024

Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading. He will now manage the entire desk, made up of 14 traders, having previously managed a team of six. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

HSBC Global Asset Management has named Aaron Waters head of European equity trading, following three and a half years as head of equity trading at the bank, The TRADE can reveal. In this new role Waters will head up a desk made up of traders located across Paris and the UK.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

Dagmar Kamber Borens was appointed head of global markets for the region for State Street Bank International (SSBI). Start-up hedge fund Jain Global appointed a former Credit Suisse vice president and electronic sales trader to join its ranks on the trading desk ahead of its launch.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

State Street’s asset management business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) named Dublin-based Ann Prendergast head of EMEA. As head of State Street Global Advisors Europe – her current role – she is responsible for the firm’s EU-based portfolio management, distribution, product development, fund management and operations.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of a major scheme from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the region as a global FX trading hub, several large banks over the last few years agreed to develop FX pricing and trading engines in Singapore, in partnership with MAS.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities. Prior to joining Rothschild in January 2023, Finke spent nearly five years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity trader covering equities and FX.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in a risk management and product control role. Bloomberg appointed Colin Williams in an electronic trading and analytics solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Historically, liquidity in this domain has been in the hands of traditional banks, be they regional or global entities. Regional banks, with their local presence, typically offer more robust liquidity and expertise in dealing with specific currencies.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Beginning her career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as director and head of portfolio sales trading in 1997, she later went on to spend six years at JP Morgan, initially as an executive director and head of execution sales responsible for electronic and portfolio trading and ETFs.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. I joined the banking services team and within that team sat the Treasury function consisting of a money market and FX trader. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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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. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In A novel concept to greener traders.

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MAY 24, 2024

We have seen a stabilisation of money flows in recent months, global funds are returning to the UK, while we continue to see outflows (mostly to US) of domestic asset managers. We all know it is very cheap and easy to trade electronically but you’re not necessarily fulfilling your liquidity obligations.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The electronic trading platform enables participants to address challenges associated with accessing liquidity and executing efficiently. In December, UBS AM and JP Morgan executed the first EU bilateral trade on FlexFI, made possible through JP Morgan’s ability to provide its electronic liquidity directly into UBS AM’s FlexFi solution.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For the right person, though, fixed income research can be even better than equity research, whether you’re at a bank, an asset management firm, a hedge fund, or a credit rating agency: Table of Contents: What is Fixed Income Research? Also, it can be quantitative or fundamental – or both! –

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2024

Given the reduced balance sheet offered by banks paired with the proliferation of higher frequency and electronic firms, Smith and du Plessis confirm that the buy-side need better tools to help them to compete and achieve their outcomes. High frequency The roll outs fit into a much wider ongoing story taking place in the markets.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. She began her career with a two-year stint as a principal dealer at Bank of Ireland Global Markets. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Pragma provides algorithmic trading and analytical services across equities, foreign exchange and fixed income with a client base that spans asset managers, hedge funds, broker dealers, banks and exchanges.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

However, in the advent of market developments, such as Mifid II research unbundling rules in Europe, a greater number of non-bank participants have begun entering this landscape. There isn’t that much liquidity so trying to trade it electronically over a platform is not as easy. You can move markets quite quickly.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

On the other hand, foreign exchange – the largest financial market in the world – benefits from the fact that trading is not limited to one central location but is instead conducted between participants by phone and electronic communication networks (ECNs) in a wide range of markets globally.

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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. Helming the US business of one of the largest asset managers in the world through such a course is no mean feat.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Taking the US market as an example, if an equity buy is traded over the day into the US close, for a non-US asset manager there becomes a very short window to get the equity trade matched, FX generated, and executed in the market in time to meet deadlines to settle on a PvP/net basis.

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APRIL 30, 2024

New rules have impacted almost every financial firm, ranging from banks to asset managers. Among its provisions, the DFA established several new regulatory bodies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and introduced stringent regulations on banks and financial institutions.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

most recently served as head of electronic equity trading at BNYs London branch for 11 years. Earlier in his career, Fallon held a money market derivatives operations role at Deutsche Bank. Earlier in his career, Wilkes spent nearly 13 years at Deutsche Bank in a variety of sales-related roles.

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The TRADE

MAY 19, 2025

Speaking to The TRADE about Blackburns appointment, Mark Govoni, chief executive of Liquidnet, said: Trading desks within asset management are increasingly consolidating and evolving into multi-asset models. Blackburnhas also previously served atMorgan Stanley, Jefferies, Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Whats spurring the rapidly evolving electronic trading landscape and what are the implications of this growing demand for automated trading solutions? Electronic trading is like Amazon, or the iPhone, or the internal combustion engine: it’s the story of technolog y writ large, applied to trading. First, some terminology.

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