The TRADE

JUNE 1, 2023

Jenny Johnson, president and chief executive of Franklin Templeton, said: “With outstanding investment performance, Putnam will add complementary capabilities to our existing specialist investment managers to meet the varied needs of our clients and will increase Franklin Templeton’s defined contribution AUM.”

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Morgan Stanley’s Maria Salamanca Mejia Previously in his career, McMahon worked as a centralised dealer at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, working on the multi-asset global trading desk.

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The TRADE

APRIL 18, 2024

The three firms join a growing list within Sustainable Trading’s global membership network of investment managers, banks, brokers, exchanges, trading platforms and service providers who share the goal of improving the sustainability of global markets.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of a major scheme from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the region as a global FX trading hub, several large banks over the last few years agreed to develop FX pricing and trading engines in Singapore, in partnership with MAS. This year, the industry has seen interest in Singapore grow from the buy-side too.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2024

Prior to his stint at JP Morgan Chase, Russo spent nearly four years at online investment management firm Nutmeg, most recently as senior trader. Elsewhere in his career, Russo spent three and a half years at James Hambro & Partners and one year at the British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) in operations-focused roles.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The development will allow compliance analysts at banks, brokers and investment managers to prioritise high-risk alerts, investigate them better and streamline the entire review process, which SteelEye claims to reduce investigation time by up to 90%.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The initiative currently includes 16 banks/brokers as well as 50 investment managers and hedge funds with combined assets under management of more than $37 trillion. Earlier this year, FIA Tech enhanced TDN to support the operational resiliency demands of clearing firms utilising the platform.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2024

Given that the settlement cycle is now shorter in the US trading volumes on a Thursday have dropped off significantly thanks to funding requirements that require brokers to fund a position for an additional three days on Friday, Saturday and Sunday given the slightly longer settlement cycle in Europe, the UK, and most of Asia Pacific.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Prior to this move, Baltussen was head of equity factor investing and co-head of quantitative fixed income at Robeco and before that spent three years at NN Investment Partners, most recently as head of quantitative research for multi-asset strategies. Both joined from Wall Street giant Citi and will be working alongside Tim Caulton.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

But there are a number of factors at play which make the future an enticing space to watch as only time will tell whether the independents can continue to thrive among a growing crowd of institutional banking players. Each provider, independents and banking giants alike, are stacking their rosters with buy-side experience.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. She began her career with a two-year stint as a principal dealer at Bank of Ireland Global Markets. The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills.

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The TRADE

MARCH 27, 2024

Whilst in smaller sizes it might not make much of a difference, for larger-sized credit trades quoting a multitude of banks, using RFM is likely to worsen the pricing received,” Welsby explains. And, makes it extremely important to pick and choose when you use protocols.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A friend suggested I consider investment banking and following a trading and sales summer placement at ABN AMRO in the City, I was instantly captivated – I had found my fit. Fast forward to the end of my studies, I applied for a position at a European investment bank.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. I joined the banking services team and within that team sat the Treasury function consisting of a money market and FX trader.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Central to the growth of the off-book segment and perhaps responsible for ruffling the most feathers is a relatively new workflow whereby non-bank liquidity providers quote directly to the buy-side via their execution management systems (EMS) leveraging actionable indications of interest (IOIs).

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