The TRADE

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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Cürex, a New York City‐based foreign exchange execution services and data analytics business, has a portfolio which includes: a firm pricing spot FX central limit order book supporting bank algo platforms; a pre-trade and post‐trade analytics platform which real‐time data analysis; and a peer-to-peer matching pool.

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Business Book-building Trading Asset Management 69

The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. As a result, LiquidityBook’s LBX suite has become a full-featured Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System (POEMS) with an embedded FIX network.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For some asset managers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours. It’s no longer all or nothing.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

There’s been an increase in the willingness and ability to leave latent liquidity in the marketplace to try to get things done in a slightly different way,” explains head of trading at Jupiter Asset Management, Mike Poole. “I I don’t yet see an increase in confidence around the price at which larger size will clear.

Trading 59

Trading Book-building Asset Management IT 59

The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. At the helm of the team is global head of trading Cathy Gibson who oversees trading across the asset manager’s offices in London, the US, Asia Pacific and South Africa. Markets have been tricky.

Trading 59

Trading Bulge Bracket Asset Management Bank 59

Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

Wealth managers say that investment banking requires crazy hours, has mostly dull work, and is ridiculously competitive to get into; also, the “compensation ceiling” may be similar in both fields, so why kill yourself in banking? The truth is that both claims are correct but incomplete.

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