The TRADE

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a new solution designed to meet the needs of asset managers with high volume and/or high-touch orders. According to the firm, NYFIX Fill matching is the only platform that matches fills between brokers and asset managers in real-time. “As

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Deutsche Börse Group subsidiary SimCorp and infrastructure and technology provider for digital assets, Alloy, have entered a strategic partnership to assist SimCorp clients with managing digital asset investments. Alloy’s clients consist of a range of firms including family offices, hedge funds and listed asset managers.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. Elsewhere, other local regulatory changes and benchmark replacements continue to impact prime brokers.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2024

When it comes to selecting an algo provider, ease of system use, reliability and quality of technical support was the top consideration for asset managers across both sides of the Channel in 2023 – 71% in the UK and 73% in Continental Europe – according to a Coalition Greenwich report.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Perpetual merges regional asset management businesses under one global umbrella At number two in our most read stories series, we have the announcement that Perpetual Group had merged its regional assets management businesses to form one global division in August.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 23, 2024

GTN serves brokers, banks, asset managers, and fintech clients. He brought with him more than 25 years’ experience in cross-asset trading for both institutional and retail clients. Last March, GTN tapped Saxo Bank for its new chief executive of Americas , with the appointment of Eric Krueger.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. The deal is intended to allow the multi-asset and broker neutral order and execution management platform to offer integrated execution, order and portfolio management services.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 14, 2024

TORONTO, May 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Virtus Capital Corporation, the asset manager of Virtus Diversified REIT is proud to announce its latest strategic move in expanding its portfolio with the acquisition of a free-standing Walmart tenanted property located in Flin Flon, Manitoba. We originally tied up this property for $5.25

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The TRADE

MAY 15, 2024

Read more: Fireside Friday with… BNY Mellon’s Geoffrey Yu BNY Mellon’s execution offering provides clients with access to a liquidity pool which leverages the firm’s client footprint consisting of asset managers, asset owners, alternatives, banks, broker dealers and wealth clients.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Morgan Stanley’s Maria Salamanca Mejia Previously in his career, McMahon worked as a centralised dealer at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, working on the multi-asset global trading desk.

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

Sohoni joined Citi 19 years ago and during her tenure has overseen several business areas, including: credit financing, asset-backed securities, clean energy, global infrastructure, residential, Citi Community Capital, municipal, and Citi’s Asset Finance Group. Faenson joined Citi in 2005 as a credit valuation adjustment (CVA) trader.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the current state with T+2 you have 48 hours to execute a security trade, match that trade with brokers, execute the FX and get everything settled. Obviously now it’s a shorter window of time to complete all required steps, and that puts pressure on managers’ operating models. If so, how so?

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The TRADE

AUGUST 2, 2023

To ensure a smooth transition to T+1 settlements, the report emphasised that systems across entities including broker-dealers, prime brokers and clearing houses will require upgrades to meet the demands of an accelerated settlement cycle. Foreign investors will also have to bring in all FX transactions for a T+1 cash settlement.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Former director at Cboe Global Markets, Michael Sparacino, has left the exchange operator after less than two years to re-join agency only broker-dealer Matrix Executions. He re-joined the agency only broker-dealer after also previously serving as a director for almost three years from 2019 to 2022.

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The TRADE

APRIL 26, 2024

A similar view was shared by Lynn Challenger, global head of trading and order generation at UBS asset management, in a separate panel this week. Various panellists agreed that building should be secondary to buying, and used only if specific needs are to be met. We’re looking to automate. We’re looking to get better data.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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 Tony Atkins has been appointed UK head of sales trading.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

Read more: E-trading platforms experienced increased share of US equity trading volume in 2023 Asset managers and brokers have been driven to automate their trading workflows and accomplish more with less to cope with reduced commission rates, budget restrictions and smaller teams.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Following the implementation of Mifid II in 2018, Europe unbundled trading and research, resulting in all asset managers having to pay for research in cash only. European asset managers looking for diversity and greater competition in US broker research will also be impacted by the lapse. Therefore, today we lapse.”

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Eric Heliene, head of buy-side trading desk, Groupama Asset Management  The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem. Players must adapt quickly, investing in advanced systems and enhancing team skills to manage increasingly complex and interconnected processes.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s already a huge section of the asset management community and the asset servicing community, including Northern Trust, that are established in Singapore as large parts of their global operations.” This year, the industry has seen interest in Singapore grow from the buy-side too.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is where a partnership with a firm like Cassini can come into its own because we see them as our equivalents in the collateral management and margin space.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

First announced back in 2020 the platform uses DAML smart contracts to standardise and streamline post-trade workflows, enhancing operational efficiencies and transparency whilst reducing settlement risks.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The role of prime brokers and global custodians is also set to be addressed in this vein with an end goal of allowing market participants better access to data and ultimately, better execution. Related to this, is the third focus – FX data and the promotion of it’s good use.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Specialist multi-asset manager Candriam and its parent company New York Life Investments have expanded their partnership to grow their remit in the US offshore market. Following the expansion of the partnership, the pair will offer solutions and services to non-US resident investors who invest through US intermediaries.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 11, 2023

Also announced this week was MarketAxess’ plans to acquire multi-asset algorithmic trading provider, Pragma, for an undisclosed sum at the end of this year, subject to closing conditions. The firm’s clients include asset managers, hedge funds, broker dealers, banks and exchanges.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

EU asset managers, banks and brokers are urging policy markets not to succumb to pressure that could potentially lead to suboptimal outcomes in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid/r) review.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

Up against other individuals from Invesco, Liontrust Asset Management, Baillie Gifford and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), Nutting took home the award after an industry-wide vote. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

MAY 24, 2024

While fingers of blame are being pointed in each direction, the bottom line is asset managers are now facing operational challenges, the notion of pre-funding trades and balancing settlement security with best execution obligations. One of the biggest talking points for asset managers and their custodians is liquidity.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The narrative of the service being used solely by smaller hedge funds has been replaced by suggestions that outsourced trading is gathering pace among larger fund managers. Raymond McCabe, founder and managing partner of Outset Global, highlights how a dozen of its frontline traders are “pure buy-side” from “big desks”.

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The TRADE

MARCH 8, 2024

Something equally as important as versatility is the ability to condense and cherry pick the best information, colour and flows, not just for our fund managers, but for ourselves too. Multi-asset traders are lucky enough to receive a wealth of information from endless IBs, emails and calls from counterparties in each asset class.

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The TRADE

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. It’s pushing high touch and marginalised brokers into a smaller section of the market. The path of travel is very clear.

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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. 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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