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AUGUST 5, 2024

Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. His expertise includes equities, ETFs, merger arbitrage spreads, equity swaps, futures, options, and FX.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) equity and derivatives trader Rikki Corbyn joined Barclays in a program trading role. He joins Barclays after almost 12 years with SSGA, originally joining the firm in 2013 in a trade support role before moving into an equity and derivatives trading role in 2016.

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He most recently served as an investment manager at ADQ and before that spent two and a half years as a senior trader and portfolio manager at Azimut. In his career, Diallo has also worked as an equity trader at Avalon Capital Markets.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). Throughout his career Jenkins has also worked at SWIFT, Macgregor, and AXA Investment Managers. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

Asset Management

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

RBC has appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Portfolio Management Merchant banking companies provide portfolio management services to high -net-worth individuals and corporate investors. These services include a selection of securities, portfolio monitoring and review, advice on the rationalization of portfolios, and tax planning.

Banking

The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards. He joins from ED&F Man Capital Markets, a company he founded.

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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. He joined Northern Trust in 2007 and has since worked in senior roles across portfolio management, client management and sales.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Hosie originally joined Credit Suisse in 2017 as its head of equities Asia Pacific, later assuming responsibility of the asset class for both Asia Pacific and EMEA and eventually taking up the role in a global capacity in 2023. The post People Moves Monday: UBS, Titan Asset Management, IEX Group and more… appeared first on The TRADE.

Asset Management

The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

Portfolio managers use them without fear, it’s a tool in the box which is not for everybody, but it’s getting there. He further explained: “Aside from equity derivatives, if you look at where the credit market is going, macro credit and understanding how that all stacks up and how those things work is critical.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Invesco in 2016, Taitz spent two and a half years at RBC Capital Markets in a fixed income role and 10 and a half years at UBS Investment Bank as an executive vice president.

Asset Management

Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 23, 2025

Titles and groups are quite standard in IB but vary more in commercial banking (CB), and entry-level roles include everything from underwriters to credit officers to treasury officers/analysts and relationship managers; most people start as underwriters. GPA, and maybe a previous accounting or credit internship.

Investment Banking

The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. Examples just from just the last six months include UK-based investment management firm Waverton – which has £9.1 were in $50-100 billion and another 2.5%

Trading

The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Meanwhile, with regards to equities, revenue deriving from prime brokerage compared to trading shifted from a 30% versus 70% ratio a decade ago, to 40% to 60% in 2023. Dominic Rieb-Smith, managing director, international head, prime services sales, JP Morgan, refers to the past year as “a standout”. billion in 2023.

Broker

The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

Over the past 12 months, Tourmaline has also tapped rival BTIG and hired from Vantage Capital Markets and Liquidnet. Meanwhile in Frankfurt, Dirk Heim joined as head of EU execution from Quoniam Asset Management, managing the execution of global equity portfolio baskets alongside derivatives.

Trading

The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. billion and market share which accounted for 6.3%

Trading

The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. For more information on the various providers in the EMS market, check out The TRADE’s annual survey. The standard is non-proprietary and free.

Trading

Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

Efficient Frontier This is a graphical representation of the optimal portfolios that offer the highest expected return for a defined level of risk. Capital Market Line This line is drawn tangent to the efficient frontier and represents the risk and return trade-off for an efficient portfolio.

Portfolio

The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2025

Amundi Technology has partnered with capital markets trading and risk solutions provider Murex to deliver OTC derivatives capabilities to investment managers. In May 2024 Commerzbank migrated its foreign exchange, commodities, derivatives, and equities onto it. Read more – Migration to Murex’s MX.3

Asset Management

The TRADE

APRIL 23, 2025

TD Securities has named Greg Levett, Neil McKay and David Abraham as the new managing directors of its event driven sales and trading team, with all three new hires transferring from BTIG. The post TD Securities acquires BTIG event-driven trading team appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MAY 27, 2025

Joining from Jefferies, where he served as head of sales trading, isChristian Fordwhohas been appointeddirector, equities hightouchexecution. Nicolas Lebonis the third external hire for Citis Australian markets business, joining from Credit Agricolewhere he worked as adirector inglobalmarketssales.At

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