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

JUNE 1, 2023

The near-constant stream of mergers and acquisitions across both the sell- and buy-side appears to show no signs of abating as two asset management deals have been announced in the past 24 hours. The move comes as Franklin seeks to increase its assets under management and expand on its presence in other sectors. stake in the company.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Deutsche Börse Group subsidiary SimCorp and infrastructure and technology provider for digital assets, Alloy, have entered a strategic partnership to assist SimCorp clients with managing digital asset investments. Alloy’s clients consist of a range of firms including family offices, hedge funds and listed asset managers.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 6, 2024

Saphyre’s technology manages the onboarding and maintenance of custody, broker trading, and buy-side accounts. Having Capital Group, a top five financial investment management firm, join this endeavor is incredibly exciting,” said Stephen Roche, president and co-founder at Saphyre.

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The TRADE

JUNE 14, 2024

Stephen Roche As part of the move, Jupiter will leverage Saphyre’s platform for the onboarding and maintenance of its trading relationships with brokers and custodians. Saphyre’s automated intelligence enables onboarding and maintenance of custody and broker trading, alongside synchronising associated reference data in real-time.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Named Rule 13f-2, the new rule will require institutional investment managers that meet or exceed specific thresholds to report short sale related information for equity securities through Form SHO. In the final ruling the SEC has changed the reporting requirement to occur at the end of the day.

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The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2023

The initiative is made up of 16 banks or brokers, as well as 40 investment managers and hedge funds with combined assets under management of more than $37 trillion. FIA Tech stated that adding capability and scalability to support the operational resiliency needs of firms was a natural extension of the platform.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

Up against other individuals from Invesco, Liontrust Asset Management, Baillie Gifford and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), Nutting took home the award after an industry-wide vote. In 2016, Nutting moved to Principia Investment Management Limited where she was an execution trader and fund manager assistant.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 31, 2024

Additionally, eight of the top 10 prime brokers have already achieved a 90% affirmation rate by 9pm ET on trade date. It’s the non-cleared flow, the bilateral settlement piece, where there are still challenges, Wotton said.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s already a huge section of the asset management community and the asset servicing community, including Northern Trust, that are established in Singapore as large parts of their global operations.” We’ve seen a lot of activity with hedge funds and asset managers establishing themselves in Dubai or Abu Dhabi,” noted Walsh.

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The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2023

Bloomberg has introduced a white label solution for US treasuries, allowing a wide range of broker dealers to provide liquidity for trades initiated on its platform as part of its D&I dealer initiative. The offering – which has been expanded to include US treasuries – is used by investment managers and bond dealers as a pool of liquidity.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The D epository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has revealed that 350 Investment managers are now leveraging CTM’s automated trade affirmation capabilities to accelerate the post-trade lifecycle, as firms prepare for the US move to T+1 trade settlement.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ameni joined Nomura from Jefferies, where he held senior leadership positions, most recently serving as managing director for emerging markets (EM) credit trading. Prior to his stint at JP Morgan Chase, Russo spent nearly four years at online investment management firm Nutmeg, most recently as senior trader.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

According to the business, the initial rollout “is focused on allocations processing and trade confirmations, with trade lifecycle transparency across the multiple brokers and the clearinghouse on each trade”. Currently, the TDN comprises 16 banks and brokers and 40 investment managers and hedge funds.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Earlier this week, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) revealed that 350 investment managers are now leveraging CTM’s automated trade affirmation capabilities to accelerate the post-trade lifecycle, as firms prepare for the US move to T+1 trade settlement.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Risk management and recovery will be improved by this in the event of a systemic outage such as a cyberattack or technology failure. 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.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Specialist multi-asset manager Candriam and its parent company New York Life Investments have expanded their partnership to grow their remit in the US offshore market. Following the expansion of the partnership, the pair will offer solutions and services to non-US resident investors who invest through US intermediaries.

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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. It’s no longer all or nothing.

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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.

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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

JULY 3, 2024

Despite worries in the lead up to the monumental shift, many have managed to adapt their workflows to evade issues across the ETF market, securities lending and FX alike, while adapting to affirmation and central trade matching platforms to achieve straight through processing. Presenting the Thursday conundrum.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

Trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine has added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers. TS Imagine’s TradeSmart features pre-certified connections to more than 250 listed brokers and venues, as well as broker algos.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Following the implementation of Mifid II in 2018, Europe unbundled trading and research, resulting in all asset managers having to pay for research in cash only. European asset managers looking for diversity and greater competition in US broker research will also be impacted by the lapse. That bill is, however, not in effect.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The narrative of the service being used solely by smaller hedge funds has been replaced by suggestions that outsourced trading is gathering pace among larger fund managers. Raymond McCabe, founder and managing partner of Outset Global, highlights how a dozen of its frontline traders are “pure buy-side” from “big desks”.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

As Rebecca Crowe, managing director and chief operating officer, BNY Mellon Markets, previously told The TRADE, “Years ago, it was the middle-office who were contemplating outsourcing and people couldn’t even consider that you would allow somebody into your books and records in that way.” An active manager needs an active desk.”

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What I mean by that is, it’s really important for both sides to understand priorities,” says Ed Wicks, head of trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM). “If We view this as a complement to broker led avenues of liquidity, not as a replacement.”

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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. From the banking team at Scot Asset Management, I moved firms in 1999 to take up a role in trade settlements. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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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 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.

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The TRADE

MARCH 27, 2024

Given inventory restrictions in credit, it’s often more challenging for a broker/bank to make a two-way price if they don’t have the bond to begin with. In some markets, regardless of whether or not you’re showing a two-way direction, thanks to the liquidity landscape, it becomes easy to work out a firm’s intentions.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

Hogan Lovells lawyer Rachel Kent – who has led the UK’s Investment Research Review under the Edinburgh Reforms – today revealed he recommendations which includes paving the way for a new ‘Research Platform’ that will provide a one-stop-shop for firms looking for research experts.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As mentioned, regulation has redefined bank balance sheets and we’ve consequently witnessed a change in the composition of the traditional broker-dealer community. What has got us here are similar dynamics I spoke to in relation to a change in trader role and will continue to drive modernisation forward.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. Users will be able to send orders to their brokers, manage positions, monitor portfolios, and conduct risk assessments and compliance checks from a unified platform.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ninety One has joined Saphyres network of financial institutions, adopting its platform to streamline the onboarding and maintenance of trading relationships with brokers and custodians, as well as manage trading agreements.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2025

He has also worked in derivatives-related positions at various firms, including: Ignis Asset Management, Axial Investment Management, and RBS. UBS Execution Hub services hedge funds and asset managers of various sizes, originally built to handle execution for UBS Global Wealth Management.

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The TRADE

APRIL 9, 2025

Janus Henderson and the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America have entered a strategic partnership, whereby Janus is set to become Guardians investment grade public fixed income asset manager. The move follows other similar deals, wherein asset managers are looking to expand their remits through key partnerships.

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