The TRADE

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

How is trading talent set to evolve going forward? The future trading talent has a different educational background than what has been the norm for decades. How do you expect the trading role to change further in light of automation and AI developments? What is the best piece of advice you have been given in your career?

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For the first time, The TRADE is announcing the 2023 Rising Stars of Trading and Execution ahead of the gala awards ceremony, Leaders in Trading on 8 November. The shortlisted candidates will be handed their award during the Rising Stars of Trading and Execution awards ceremony, taking place as part of Leaders in Trading.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

Liontrust Asset Management’s trading for investment funds and institutional accounts has been officially outsourced to BNY. John Ions Liontrust announced that it was exploring outsourcing parts of its trading to BNY back in January, with initial plans at the time stated to be covering non-UK activity.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As ESMA’s review of European Union’s post-trade transparency regime enters its final stage, European trade associations have stressed the importance of credit ratings in underpinning the success of the EU post-trade transparency framework for corporate bonds.

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The TRADE

MARCH 12, 2024

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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The TRADE

MARCH 14, 2024

More than a third of FX trades from European asset managers would have to settle outside CLS following the US shift to T+1 and therefore carry increased risk, a leading association has found through new research. T+1 implementation today does not represent an absolute reduction of risk in the system.

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The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2025

Sand Grove Capital Management has selected HUB, a cloud-based post-trade platform, to automate and optimise its reporting workflows. The London-based alternative investment firm, which manages $1.2 The post Sand Grove Capital taps HUB for post-trade automation appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

Singapore-headquartered fund manager APS Asset Management has adopted order and investment management technology solution, Bloomberg AIM, to automate its post-trade workflows. We are proud that our partnership with APS Asset Management will help them scale and automate workflows.”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2024

Impax Asset Management has entered into an agreement to acquire the corporate credit assets from fixed income manager Absalon Corporate Credit, part of Formuepleje Group. The post Impax Asset Management to acquire corporate credit business from partner firm Formuepleje Group appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Balyasny Asset Management has appointed Harrison Chesterton as associate director within its equity finance trading division, The TRADE can reveal. The post Balyasny Asset Management names new associate director of equity finance trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UK-based investment management firm Waverton has outsourced a portion of its trading to Northern Trust Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS). The deal follows a review by the investment manager of its operating model intended to help it better align its structure with plans for product expansion in the future.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Digital platform FactSet is set to integrate LoopFX into its foreign exchange execution management system (EMS) platform – Portware, with go-live set for H1 2024. The post FactSet FX trading platform to integrate LoopFX appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MAY 22, 2024

Eurex has welcomed Santander Asset Management as a global player in its listed FX segment. Imanol Urquizu The Spanish asset manager has begun to expand its FX futures business to Eurex, supported by Banco Santander as clearing member and Deutsche Bank as liquidity provider.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Data has increasingly become available for trading teams, however, as discussed among other panels at the conference, it is only beneficial if clean and appropriate. We believe all our trading team should be able to consume data in its entirety from the get-go. We don’t believe in barriers to accessing the data.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Almost two thirds (63%) of buy-side equity market participants believe outsourced desks would result in improved execution quality and trade performance when trading across regions, according to new research from Coalition Greenwich. This figure was up markedly from similar research in 2020, which had the result at 5%.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BlackRock’s head of electronic trading and market structure for EMEA, Daniel Mayston, has left the asset management giant, The TRADE can reveal. The TRADE understands it is outside of trading. The institution also reshuffled its equity trading leadership earlier this year.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

According to the businesses, the aim is to “revolutionise India’s asset management industry and transform financial futures” through combining the scale and investment history of BlackRock, with the technology resources and local market knowledge held by JFS. Once in operation, the new business will have its own management team.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Imapx Asset Management has appointed Ross Pamphilon as its new head of fixed income, The TRADE can reveal. According to a social media update, Pamphilon joins Imapax from Wells Fargo Asset Management, where he spent the last four and a half years as head of fixed income for the EMEA region.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fintech giant FIS has acquired SaaS post-trade platform Torstone Technology, according to multiple sources close to the matter. Some of its major recent mandates include a 10-year agreement to provide post-trade technology to BNP Paribas and $1.5

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

Royal London Asset Management has restructured its global equity team with immediate effect, following the departure of its head of equities and some members of the wider global equities team. The post Royal London Asset Management restructures global equity team appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Wells Fargo has appointed Jon Thorne as senior securities sales trading specialist, The TRADE can reveal. Jonathan Tse was appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS last month, following a move over from Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Virtu Financial and Deutsche Börse Group’s FX trading platform, 360T, have formed a new partnership, set to provide clients with an integrated FX trading analytics and TCA offering. As Virtu extends its offering to the 360T client base, users will be able to leverage the trading analytics in a fully integrated manner. “At

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Umair Khan Marwat joined Millennium as a trader, following almost two and a half years at Balyasny Asset Management. Hong Kong-based Marwat previously worked at Credit Suisse, focused on AES, algorithmic, and direct market access (DMA) trading, before joining Balyasny Asset Management in 2021 as a trader.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Also appointed to the low touch sales and trading team at RBC is Suzanne Webster, who joined as a multi-asset director.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Before joining MEAG, Malakis held senior sales positions with international asset managers, including Generali Insurance, Vanguard International and Schroders.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2025

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, an independent financial services firm. Nearly $6 billion of assets managed by the acquired team will transfer to MIM, under the terms of the transaction.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The new service will offer insights to hedge funds, asset managers and other buy-side based off real-time liquidity mapping. Broadridge said its approach identifies ideal algorithmic execution for orders and reduces outliers to improve trading costs.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ryan O’Connor left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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The TRADE

MAY 7, 2024

Burke will also hold responsibility for business and product management expansion of MarketAxess’ EM trading business across both geographies and products. Burke joined MarketAxess from Standard Chartered, where he most recently served as managing director, based in Singapore.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

UBS selected one of its newly acquired Credit Suisse staff to replace its retiring global head of execution services, Brent Johnson, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong. Livingstone previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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CNBC: Investing

JULY 10, 2025

The S & P 500 rebalance, which typically comes on the third Friday of the last month in a quarter, is usually an event that sparks billions of dollars of trading and spurs passive investment funds to snap up shares of the new companies being added to the index. Crypto exchange Coinbase was the latest beneficiary of such an inclusion.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 19, 2024

Unifi Asset Management has expanded its team with the addition of two New-York based traders. While at GIC, Koh held several senior fixed income trading positions, most recently serving as senior vice president. He joins the asset manager from JP Morgan where he spent nearly two years as a credit derivatives strategist.

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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

JULY 11, 2025

Prior to Mifid, the status quo saw firms combine research costs and trading activities as one, however with the advent of the directive, fees were unbundled. Previously, the asset management community had been in a ‘wait and see’ mode as regards moving their payment models, but we are now seeing the result of this patience.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ryan O’Connor has left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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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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