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 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

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. Upon completion, Impax’s newly combined global team will have pro-forma fixed income assets under management and advice of £1.6

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Nikko Asset Management is set to rename itself as Amova Asset Management on 1 September 2025. The post Nikko Asset Management to rename as Amova Asset Management appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Saphyre has partnered with BlackRock to integrate services with the firms end-to-end asset management platform Aladdin. Our partnership with Aladdin represents a pivotal evolution for Saphyre, building on our already extensive network of top-tier investment managers and financial institutions, said Ray Shivers, COO of Saphyre.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Stuart Lawrence has been appointed head of European equities trading at UBS Asset Management four and a half years after he joined the firm in June 2019. He was most recently head of UK equity trading at UBS Asset Management, having previously served as a high touch equity sales trader at Kepler Cheuvreux.

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CNBC: Investing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Gilman Hill Asset Management CEO revealed to CNBC's "Art of the Trade" that her best trade ever is all about slow and steady.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Michael Lam has joined TT International as a senior trader, following three and a half years at Jupiter Asset Management as a fixed income trader at the firm. The post Jupiter Asset Management trader joins TT International appeared first on The TRADE. London-based Lam announced his new role on social media.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to reveal the shortlisted nominees for this year’s coveted Buy-Side Awards, in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange. This year’s categories have been updated slightly, and for the first time the Buy-Side Awards will celebrate a Hedge Fund Trading Desk of the Year alongside the Long Only category.

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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. Matt Burgess will support Hillier in managing the global equity team, as well as continuing as head of quant strategies.

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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 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

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

JANUARY 4, 2024

Institutional investors, asset managers and hedge funds are invited to rate the service, features and capabilities of their algo providers in The TRADE’s 2024 Algorithmic Trading Survey. We encourage providers of algorithmic trading to support client participation. To participate in the survey, please click here.

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The TRADE

MARCH 7, 2024

BlackRock has appointed Nick Craze head of the EMEA equity trading desk following the promotion of Paul Battams to head of international equity trading, The TRADE can reveal. He will now manage the entire desk, made up of 14 traders, having previously managed a team of six.

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The TRADE

JUNE 27, 2024

State Street Global Advisors and Galaxy Asset Management have unveiled a new collaboration aimed at bringing investors digital asset-based strategies, offering key exposure to companies involved in the digital asset space. trillion digital asset landscape through manager-directed strategies.

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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

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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The TRADE

AUGUST 29, 2023

Vahid joins AllianzGI from UBS Asset Management where he served in a variety of roles over the last 20 years. Prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager for European small and mid-caps as well as a European equities research analyst.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 8, 2024

A recent government initiative announced on March 5, 2024 signals that more antitrust scrutiny for private equity firms and asset managers is on the horizon.

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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.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Jim Kaye, Executive Director at the FIX Trading Community Next year will be the year of preparation. One of the key challenges facing firms is the need for faster and more accurate trade matching. Under the current T+2 cycle, discrepancies in trade details can often be resolved with minimal impact.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Oaktree Capital Management has agreed to acquire Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) – the wealth management arm of Close Brothers – for an equity value of up to £200 million, set to be completed in early 2025 pending customary regulatory approvals.

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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 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

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

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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