The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A Citadel equity trader and senior associate has left the firm to join Ilex Capital, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Jack Boland has joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role.

Capital

The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

RBC Capital Markets appointed Mitul Patel director, central bank sales, based in London. Initially during her tenure at BNY Mellon, she served as an assistant portfolio manager, fixed income. Following this, Lambert was promoted to portfolio manager, fixed income for just over five years.

Capital Market

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.

Capital

The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jack Boland joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role. Prior to joining Citadel in 2019, Boland spent five years at BlackRock as an associate and later a trader and just under a year at HBK Capital Management as a trader before that.

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. As a result, LiquidityBook’s LBX suite has become a full-featured Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System (POEMS) with an embedded FIX network.

Portfolio Management

The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

First, orders from various portfolio managers are staged and aggregated before being electronically routed to InvestorAccess. The benefit we are jointly providing to portfolio managers and traders will create greater efficiencies across asset classes as capital markets become increasingly electronic.”

S&P

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.

Sale

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.

Bank

The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Throughout his career Jenkins has also worked at SWIFT, Macgregor, and AXA Investment Managers. Jefferies’ managing director and head of US equity distribution in Europe, Guy Trust, left the bank after nearly a decade to join Daiwa Capital Markets Europe.

Asset Management

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. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan. as a fund manager for the passive and quantitative investment management department.

Asset Management

The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. BTIG appointed Sean Shanker as a managing director within the electronic trading team, based in New York. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong.

Asset Management

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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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

i] [link] [ii] Aite Group survey of 369 financial advisors, Q2 2017 and 403 financial advisors, Q3 2015 [iii] Ibid The post Why Large Wealth Management Firms Can’t Be Ruled Out in the Digital Space appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog.

Management

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

Accenture Capital Markets

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative AI (gen AI) is predicted to impact over two-thirds of all functions across the capital markets industry, suggesting that the technology has the potential to significantly transform all its segments—including asset management. Interested in a conversation? Feel free to reach out to us for a discussion. [1]

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. Boess explained: “The reality is that markets are just getting increasingly interconnected and more and more you see the individual parts of the capital structure being done more closely.

IT

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. Move to the sales side and reach a higher pay ceiling as a relationship manager.

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 16, 2024

With the advent of an ever-more technologically innovative and globally connected capital markets sphere, fixed income emerging markets (EM) have demonstrably become an increasingly appealing area of interest for investors. We’ve also seen an increase in portfolio trading activity in the market.”

Trading

Accenture Capital Markets

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Furthermore, it also provides opportunities to e.g., leverage green cloud to reduce carbon footprint and energy consumption—which might in turn be contributing to clients’ perception of a wealth manager as a responsible business. appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog. The post Is your technology future-ready?

IT

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. The list goes on.

Trading

The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

On the topic, Rieb-Smith adds: “We’re in an environment where you’ve seen the macro community morph into multi-strats (because they’ve gone into equity strategies whether that be volume, capital markets and ultimately quant). Then you’ve got the quants who have started to look at fixed income products.

Broker

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.

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Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

At the heart of financial management and investing lies a crucial question: " How can we maximize returns while minimizing risk?" This question paved the way for the birth of the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) , introduced by economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s.

Portfolio

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. While perhaps not one of the most exciting aspects of the trade lifecycle, settlement is a central process that acts as a pillar for the capital markets.

Trading

The TRADE

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Magnus Haglind, head of products for marketplace technology, Nasdaq The first wave of gen-AI use cases across capital markets technology has sparked widespread energy and excitement about its future potential. This growth is projected to continue into 2025, fuelled by a steady increase of credit e-trading.

Trading

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. The integration of Murex’s market-leading OTC derivatives capabilities will support ALTO client expansion into the most complex portfolio strategies.

Asset Management

The TRADE

APRIL 23, 2025

Abrhams recent roles include positions at FBR Capital Markets, Merebis Capital Management, Titanium Capital, ZAN Partners, Goldman Sachs, NatWest Markets and Credit Lyonnais Securities, where he spanned sectors including equity research, investment and portfolio management.

Securities

The TRADE

MAY 23, 2025

Harry Williams has joined RBC Capital Markets as a credit trader, following on from his previous role at MUFG, The TRADE can reveal. Prior to his time at MUFG, he worked at UBS for a year, covering global fixed income portfolio management. RBC Capital Markets had not yet commented by the time of publication.

Capital Market

The TRADE

MAY 27, 2025

RBC Capital Markets Harry Williams has joined RBC Capital Markets as a credit trader, following on from his previous role at MUFG, as revealed by The TRADE. Prior to his time at MUFG, he worked at UBS for a year, covering global fixed income portfolio management.

Capital Market

The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Sell-side traders have begun to leverage a combination of Open Trading and automation to maximise balance sheet velocity and support portfolio style execution. However, in todays competitive and cost-sensitive capital markets efficiency is paramount, and automation typically returns quickly as markets stabilise.

Trading

The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2025

While the regulatory landscape has been challenging incountries like China,South Korea and India, we are seeing tremendous wealth creation in markets such as India and Southeast Asia. Elsewhere in Asia, the capital markets emergence from a decade-long low interest rate environment has been slower.

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