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LiquidityBook acquires Messer to boost multi-asset capabilities

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LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. With regard to our buy-side clients, and especially newer or smaller funds, time and again we hear their need to shadow their fund admins or manage their own books and records.

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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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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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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

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Among hedge funds there have been winners and losers, and primes will have needed to both watch their books carefully and make themselves available to assist clients with their evolving needs. “In 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 Big Interview: Angela McLean

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I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. From the banking team at Scot Asset Management, I moved firms in 1999 to take up a role in trade settlements. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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The desk of the future: ‘AI conductors’ vs the traditional trader?

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These guys are valuable because of the market they’ve been covering, they know the ins and outs and know how to play the book,” said Armon-Jones. The audience vote prior to the discussion swayed 69% in favour of Lucero’s hypothesis, with all to play (argue) for. “ He added: “Traders need to be able to have a view.

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Trading at the frontier

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She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. If I saw a value of an opportunity in terms of part of the book of business being outsourced I would have to consider it. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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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 Can you imagine an asset manager increasing the management fee for an ETF?

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