Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many institutional investors and pension plans are still in the process of rolling out data lakes and robust data governance frameworks. The most advanced peers have mastered these skills and are looking now at deploying AI and machine learning (ML) to improve investment decision making (e.g.,

Investment 89

Investment Funds Management Investors 89

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.

Sale 64

Sale Management Trading Portfolio Management 64

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? bunds (Germany), or Japanese government bonds (JGBs)? Treasury yield at?

Equities 59

Equities Debt Asset Management Recruitment 59

The TRADE

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. In Europe, for our style of business we don’t use portfolio trading that much.

Trading 64

Trading Electronics Portfolio IT 64

Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 5, 2023

Some SWFs operate like long-only asset managers (i.e., mutual funds ) that allocate their assets top-down and then pick specific indices, companies, and securities that meet their criteria. The firm uses passive and active strategies, often deviating from its reference portfolio based on the macro environment.

Recruitment 59

Recruitment Funds Private Equity Investment 59

The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

David Berney and Michael Broadbent run Ergo Consultancy which delivers what it refers to as provider “beauty parades” for buy-side organisations looking to outsource their trading, whereby it presents all the services in the industry to that asset manager, hedge fund or asset owner. The list goes on.

Trading 64

Trading Asset Management M&A Broker 64

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

Short Jacobs and Long CMS – You think Jacobs’ growth rate will slow down without CMS, but CMS’ prospects will increase since it can win more government clients as a separate company. 5) Portfolio Concentration – Many special situations and distressed funds run concentrated portfolios (e.g.,

Funds 64

Funds Investors Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers 64

The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets. This context is crucial for our day-to-day operations. You’ve got competing market makers that you are up against.

Trading 59

Trading Bulge Bracket Asset Management Bank 59

The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The move secured the support of a broad range of key market participants, including banks, clearing firms, asset managers and custodians, including the likes of BNY Mellon, Citi and Goldman Sachs. Euronext’s VaR-based margin methodology focuses on Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Irish government bonds.

Trading 59

Trading Risk Management Equities Management 59

Transactional Delights

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Disclaimers: [link] In some pretty big corporate governance news, BlackRock recently announced that in 2022, it will be taking its first steps to “ expand the opportunity for clients to participate in proxy voting decisions where legally and operationally viable.”

Retail 40

Retail IT Funds S&P 40

The TRADE

AUGUST 18, 2023

For example, market participants are very interested in the yield curve control change by the Bank of Japan and as a result, our Japanese government bond and YEN swap numbers are growing pretty fast. Traditionally, pre-MiFID II, our institutional segment clients were primarily asset managers, central banks and other real money-type players.

Trading 52

Trading Portfolio Business IT 52

The TRADE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anna Nordstrom, head of the domestic and international markets functions in the markets group at Deferral Reserve Bank of New York, shared that the current reach of the FX global code extended to 1300 entities – including the top 15 asset managers globally.

Asset Management 52

Asset Management Trading Bank Banking 52

The TRADE

MAY 29, 2025

Bloomberg has expanded its market on close (MOC) list trading offering to include US treasuries, following on from the launch of MOC for European government bonds. The expansion is set to allow investors to automatically get into or out of a market at closing point, avoiding the need to manually place order immediately as the market closes.

Trading 52

Trading Asset Management Electronics Capital Market 52

The TRADE

MARCH 6, 2025

German asset manager Ampega has adopted a new front-office solution from SimCorp in a bid to streamline its system landscape and reduced the total cost of ownership. Ampega, the asset manager for Talanx Group, has been a SimCorp client for 20 years, primarily utilising middle and back-office capabilities.

Asset Management 52

Asset Management Collaboration Management Trading 52

The TRADE

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Allen Zimmerman, SimCorp The move will enable SimCorp to complement its Axioma risk models and portfolio construction capabilities with Yield Books fixed income analytics to deliver analytics for securitised debt. This is another step toward enabling faster and more informed investment decisions.

Book-building 64

Book-building Asset Management Risk Management Debt 64

The TRADE

JUNE 4, 2025

Empirically, we use external TCA providers to enrich our data across all available asset classes. This enhancement improves trading desk operations, interactions with portfolio managers, and broker relationships. Implementing a robust data governance framework is vital.

IT 59

IT Management Broker Trading 59

The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2025

From a capital markets perspective, Japan has offered the region valuable lessons in how to stimulate market activity through a package of measures and corporate governance reforms. As a growing Asian quantitative asset manager, our focus will be on Australia, India and Japan.

Trading 59

Trading Capital Market Capital Asset Management 59