Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The financial services industry—including asset managers—has had an interesting relationship with Silicon Valley. Asset managers should not assume that these tech giants will look past this industry. Asset managers should start to prepare for what is likely to be inevitable disruption.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

Before joining MEAG, Malakis held senior sales positions with international asset managers, including Generali Insurance, Vanguard International and Schroders. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

Asset Management

MergersCorp M&A International

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Valuing an asset management company (AMC) is a multifaceted endeavor that requires a nuanced approach. Asset management companies are integral players in the financial services sector, managing investments on behalf of clients, which can include individuals, institutions, and corporations.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JULY 5, 2023

AllianceBernstein (AB) has expanded its presence in the Middle East with a new office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), becoming the latest in a string of global asset management firms to set up shop in the region. The move comes as part of AB’s strategic plan to strengthen its presence in the Middle East.

Asset Management

The TRADE

AUGUST 2, 2024

BNP Paribas has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of AXA Investment Managers – representing around €850 million in assets under management – for just over €5 billion. The deal is set to include an agreement for BNP Paribas’ long term management of a large part of AXA’s assets.

Asset Management

Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial services falls into this category. According to the cyber crime study, an asset management firm could spend more than $17 million per year on charges relating to managing and recovering from incidents. In total, cyber crime costs an organization an average of $11.7 1] Accenture, Ponemon Institute, LLC.

Asset Management

Global Banking & Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Frankfurt-based Chom Capital GmbH is an owner-operated asset management boutique, licenced to conduct financial services in the form of investment brokerage, investment advice, contract broking and financial portfolio management.

Capital

The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2023

The application incorporates real-time liquidity information from LTX Liquidity Cloud to simplify workflows and increase efficiency for users’ bond selection and portfolio construction processes, which LTX stated will benefit asset managers hedge funds and dealers.

Corporation

Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In recent years, this technique has captivated large financial services players given its potential to help drive down labor costs, reduce human errors and improve the customer experience. The traditional RPA approach used by large financial services players usually doesn’t easily work in institutional investing.

Investors

The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Technology vendor Broadridge also explains the change in procedures for asset managers delivering trade details to prime brokers and coordinating information among the asset manager, executing brokers and PBs. “Currently, buy-side firms deliver trade data to executing brokers and prime brokers separately.

Broker

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

More than 200 asset managers, hedge funds and other users of outsourced trading providers voiced their opinions in this first-of-its-kind piece of research. The post Around two-thirds of buy-siders believe outsourced desks could enhance trade performance in cross-border trading appeared first on The TRADE.

Trading

Global Banking & Finance

JULY 3, 2024

Creand Group: A Model of Committed Banking Creand (formerly Crèdit Andorrà) is a global financial services group with nearly 75 years of experience and expertise in retail banking, private banking, asset management and insurance. It […]

Banking

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The deal will provide clients with ETF selection tools for manager and fund selection, as well as innovative portfolio construction tools. Technology and innovation in the service of clients are at the heart of our daily concerns,” asserted Philippe Malaise, chief executive and chair of Trackinsight.

Asset Management

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.

Trading

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The deal will provide clients with ETF selection tools for manager and fund selection, as well as innovative portfolio construction tools. “Technology and innovation in the service of clients are at the heart of our daily concerns,” asserted Philippe Malaise, chief executive and chair of Trackinsight.

Asset Management

Razorpay

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Private banking is a personalized financial and wealth management service provided by banks to high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). It involves offering exclusive products, tailored advice, and one-on-one attention to help clients manage, grow, and protect their wealth. What is Private Banking?

Banking

The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This is compounded by a couple factors -the increase in transaction volumes and more complex assets being transacted. How can new data management technologies help reduce operating costs? If you look at sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, as a macro trend, they’re starting to insource more of their own risk management.

Asset Management

The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

Accountant

The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Elsewhere in his career, Williams held a pricing analyst role at Financial Times and a junior business development role at Deloitte. Previously, she was a partner at global law firm King & Spalding, serving as co-chair of both the financial services and fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency groups.

Sale

Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses. What is a Merchant Bank? This saves valuable time and effort.

Banking

Mergers and Inquisitions

AUGUST 6, 2025

Why I’m Taking a Fairly Relaxed Attitude AI for Financial Modeling: What “Prompted” This Article? As of mid-2025, a bunch of new AI tools geared toward use cases in finance have been released: Claude for Financial Services – It’s a modern, more automated/AI-driven version of Capital IQ or Bloomberg.

Financial Models

The TRADE

JUNE 14, 2023

Exchange and clearing house operator Cboe Global Markets is planning to introduce a central counterparty (CCP) clearing service for securities financing transactions (SFT) in Q3 2024. The post Cboe Clear Europe to introduce clearing service for securities financing transactions appeared first on The TRADE.

Finance

Accenture Capital Markets

JANUARY 22, 2024

The underlying question from a financial services perspective is therefore how to prove that sustainability-related investments are delivering against their “green” promise in a clear and reliable way? By doing so, DLT is likely to catalyze the emergence of a whole new generation of sustainable finance and other financial instruments.

Investment

The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Former head of market structure and liquidity solutions at broker dealer Kepler Cheuvreux Byron Griffin is set to join Franco-German financial services firm ODDO BHF. Before that, he served as vice president and relationship manager for JP Morgan’s priority asset manager clients.

Banking

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shortlisted individuals are repeated contributors to discussion whether that be through panels, associations or schemes to support the next generation joining the financial services industry. The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2023.

Trading

The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

Profitability

The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

In this role, he was instrumental in distributing Deutsche Bank’s solutions product suite to major institutional clients in the financial services sector. In a social media post, Wilkes said, “Today marks my last day with Deutsche Bank.

Sale

The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allowed its no-action letter to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), based on enforcements surrounding research services, to expire – reinforcing that it was not intended to be permanent solution.

Bulge Bracket

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. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

Sale

Razorpay

JANUARY 3, 2024

Seamless Onboarding, Integration and Sub-Merchant Account In e-commerce, services are sometimes provided in collaboration between businesses. Suppose a wealth management portal hosts several asset management companies (AMCs). This will enable the portal to manage payments on behalf of the AMCs.

IT

The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2023

Jenkins has been head of trading at Polar Capital for three and a half years, joining in 2019 after serving with Highbridge Capital Management for five years as its head of European trading. Previously in her career she spent several years at Cantor Fitzgerald and Virtu Financial in equity sales trading roles.

Trading

The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

One of the greatest revelations across the financial services sector (and beyond) was that mantra of ‘we don’t have to do things the way we used to’ as office hours turned to hybrid work-from-home setups and video conferencing and instant messaging became the norm. It’s no longer all or nothing. It’s no longer relinquishing control.

Trading

The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The service provider landscape for outsourced trading is made up of an eclectic mix of firms. Boutique independents and the largest financial services providers co-exist in this burgeoning space which has some elements of comradery and others of fierce rivalry.

Trading

The TRADE

JULY 11, 2023

To help boost the attractiveness of the UK’s financial services sector, the UK government revealed last night that it had accepted all recommendations from Rachel Kent’s UK Investment Research Review, published yesterday. This will ensure we are better able to fund quality research into the new Silicon Valley sectors.”

Asset Management

The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

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 There are no prescribed measures for any particular asset class at any given time. You had the gilt crisis.

Trading

The Deal

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Though business development companies are performing well in 2023 relative to the prior two years, mergers among companies with shared managers that help reduce costs amid historic underperformance are still on the table. Over the past few years, large asset managers such as BlackRock Inc. The deal followed a Sept.

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