The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Market participants need global data-driven content to enhance their own products and gain deeper understanding of market shifts and liquidity dynamics, and to identify opportunities for better trading outcomes. Information businesses will need to tightly align their data strategy with these client needs.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 2, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce that Europe’s most popular awards event for the trading and execution industry returns on 8 November at The Savoy Hotel in London, recognising the finest trading talent across asset managers, hedge funds, banks, brokers, trading venues and technology vendors.

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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. Named NYFIX Fill Matching, the FIX based real-time reconciliation product compliments Broadridge’s existing post-trade NYFIX Matching solution.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the Rising Stars of Trading and Execution for 2024, in collaboration with Instinet – a celebration of up and coming talent on the buy-side. Previously recognised individuals have gone on to head up some of the largest and most successful desks across leading asset managers and hedge funds.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Some 83% of asset managers plan to change product strategy in the next two years, a new survey from Northern Trust has found, emphasising the need to cater to diverse investor needs. Technology appears to be at the heart of that change, with 77% planning to leverage new tech within the same timeframe.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Liquidnet has launched a new pre-trade analytics offering for listed derivatives, available in Europe and the US. The new solution offers actionable intelligence including volume, liquidity, activity and projected volume to better inform the decision-making process ahead of execution.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 23, 2024

FX analytics provider Tradefeedr and execution management system FactSet Portware have integrated their offerings to expand FX trading data and analytics. Our clients are increasingly demanding advanced FX analytics, to inform their decisions and improve trading outcomes,” said John Marchese, VP head of FX EMS sales at FactSet.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlists for the Leaders in Trading 2024 Buy-Side Awards, in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange. The winners of each category will be revealed at The TRADE’s annual Leaders in Trading glittering awards night at The Savoy in London on 7 November. The wait is over.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 29, 2023

UK asset manager Liontrust conditionally agreed to acquire its Swiss competitor GAM Holding for £96 million back in May, following murmurs of the deal in April. The post Liontrust offer for GAM declared ‘unsuccessful’ as asset manager extends immediate short-term financing appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As asset managers continue to look for ways to fully capitalise on data, a new SIX report has found that almost half view data velocity as the key challenge in enabling analytics to drive growth. These individuals work across financial institutions, asset managers, wealth managers, investment banks, and asset servicers.

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The TRADE

MARCH 28, 2024

SIX has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry – a global provider of fixed income reference data, analytics, and solutions – in a bid to solidify its position in the asset class as a provider of data and analytics globally. The post SIX picks up majority stake in fixed income data provider FactEntry appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2024

Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based asset manager has undergone not one but three makeovers in recent years as it continues to evolve with the demands of the street. More recently though, RLAM’s trading team has undergone another revamp.

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The TRADE

JULY 26, 2024

Allocating a budget down to individual teams is common practice, but for some asset managers who consume and repackage research insights centrally this would not have been an option.” Instead, they will have to provide information around the breakdown of types of provider in the budget.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Louis de Kock is set to depart J O Hambro Capital Management in the coming weeks, with Adam Simmons taking over as head of trading, The TRADE can reveal. The group also includes the asset management bands: Perpetual, Pendal, Barrow Hanley, Regnan, Trillium and TSW.

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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.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Balraj Bassi, co-founder and chief executive officer, Tradefeedr Data analytics in financial markets has reached the point where clients have access to complete global data sets, and we see 2024 as the year where this will drive change in how counterparties interact and in automating trading workflows.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Outsourced Trading Awards, a new category set to be presented at our annual awards gala in November alongside our other prestigious awards. For more information and to secure your spot at the event, visit our event page.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

UK-based asset manager Artemis has selected Northern Trust to provide outsourced trading services for its equities and derivatives activity, effective January 2025. Northern Trust will support all trading activity for Artemis’ equity funds under management and all related over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2025

The solution, called SIX Fixed Income Data, is designed to provide banks, asset managers, wealth managers and hedge funds globally with reliable fixed income data, based off an array of information sourced from global markets. The provider has said that the offering will give clients access to data for 3.6

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The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2024

The TRADE is excited to announce its inaugural Leaders in Trading New York awards, in recognition of the achievements of the trading and execution industry in North America. Leaders in Trading is The TRADE’s annual sell-out showstopper event, held at The Savoy in London. For more event information click here.

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The TRADE

JUNE 22, 2023

Broadridge Financial Solutions subsidiary, LTX, has launched RFQ+, an enhanced RFQ protocol which combines pre-trade dealer selection analytics with liquidity aggregation capabilities. The post Broadridge’s LTX launches new AI-powered RFQ+ protocol to better facilitate larger trades appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The acquisition of VettaFi will add a dynamic new component to our growing information business, with an exciting set of capabilities and a visionary, innovative team committed to client success,” said John McKenzie, chief executive of TMX Group.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the benefits of merging trading across asset classes? The key benefits of merging the trading function to be multi-asset have to come down to efficiency and scale, both as it relates to the execution of trades but also on how the trader operates when observing markets, providing market colour and looking at data.

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The TRADE

MAY 2, 2024

Appital Insights is now fully integrated with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS), enabling the latter’s asset management clients to access Appital Insights liquidity easily within their EMS. The post Appital Insights completes integration with FactSet Portware EMS appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

State Street has expanded the capabilities of its Alpha platform to support the entire lifecycle for exchange traded funds (ETFs).

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2024

GIX submitted its Form 1 application on 9 May 2023, outlining plans to operate a fully automated electronic trading platform for the trading of listed equities – no physical trading floor is planned. Discussing the aims of GIX, Labovitz tells The TRADE that it comes down to addressing all aspects of an exchange’s offering.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 8, 2023

But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title. We should also step back and define “commodities” and “commodity trading” since they’re massive areas.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Following the success of The TRADE’s inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Survey, we’re back for a second year, offering market experts the chance to influence the industry on another level. In a bid to support future development, through this survey, The TRADE wants to understand: How your desk is made up, how could it be improved?

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The world of trading, and investment generally, is littered with the remnants of now-redundant solutions once thought to be the ‘future’ of the industry. But what does the persistent evolution of AI mean for capital markets specifically? A reminder perhaps that caution is our best friend when it comes to technological innovation.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Jupiter Asset Management has signed a five-year deal with asset management software provider Room Zero in order to optimise its operations across the business. The move comes as the asset manager seeks to better meet its clients’ needs and streamline operations.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For Sharon Ruffles, head of fixed income trading for EMEA and Asia Pacific at State Street Global Advisors, the beauty of fixed income lies in how much one day can vary from the next. She began her trading career on an all-female trading desk, and says it was watching the world’s news play out in the markets that drew her to trading.

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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. 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 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. Outsourced trading is no longer a taboo topic.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Speaking to The TRADE Annelotte De Nanassy , senior product manager, financial information at SIX, explained: “SIX Bot was created as a direct result of feedback from our clients. The post SIX unveils new bot providing clients enhanced insight into corporates’ movements appeared first on The TRADE.

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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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