The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

The new desk is Investec’s first low touch offering based in London and comes off the back of increased client demand, The TRADE understands. Lowres joins Investec as head of electronic trading and execution strategy after almost 17 years with Liberum. Alongside him, Matthew West joins Investec as a global electronic sales trader.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fintech giant FIS has acquired SaaS post-trade platform Torstone Technology, according to multiple sources close to the matter. The deal will further bolster FIS’ capital markets technology offering, having acquired SunGard in a major deal back in 2015.

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The TRADE

MAY 15, 2024

BNY Mellon has today announced the integration of Global Markets Trading (GMT), which will combine the firm’s capabilities in foreign exchange, fixed income, equities and capital markets to provide full-service client provisions.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives) and chief product officer for capital markets at fintech firm Broadridge has announced his departure after more than four years with the business. The post Broadridge capital markets head to depart appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Investing in Hong Kong’s first-ever digitally native bonds and transacting repo trades with the bonds as collateral has been a smooth process,” said Bryan Wong, general manager and head of treasury markets division of BEA.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Tourmaline Partners has appointed Peter Murden as managing director – equity trading, as it seeks to further enhance its market reach, The TRADE can reveal. His key focus will also be on bolstering the team of senior equity trading professionals at the firm.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Algorithmic Trading Awards. The winners of the Algorithmic Trading Awards will be based on performance in The TRADE’s Algorithmic Trading Survey 2023, which was conducted earlier in the year. Visit out event page for more information.

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The TRADE

MARCH 13, 2024

BTIG has made two key appointments including promoting Troy Donohue to head of Americas portfolio trading and hiring Henri Taylor as director within electronic trading sales. Elsewhere, Taylor brings over 20 years’ experience in electronic trading sales to the firm.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) saw overall growth across its key businesses in 2023, with considerable improvement across data and analytics, capital markets, and in particular, post-trade. year-on-year increase, while capital markets saw a 6.1% In capital markets, the 6.1%

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The TRADE

MARCH 15, 2024

JP Morgan Chase & Co has been issued with almost $350 million worth of fines and civil money penalties for inadequacies in its firm and client trade reporting program between 2014 and 2023. These gaps and deficiencies in JPMC’s trade surveillance program constitute unsafe or unsound banking practices,” the watchdog said in a statement.

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PE Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Marks Baughan served as financial advisor to TRAFiX while RBC Capital Markets was financial advisor to Marlin. The post Marlin invests in global trading software provider TRAFiX appeared first on PE Hub.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Leaders in Trading awards, with the recipients honoured at a ceremony held last night at The Savoy, London. BlackRock and Millennium took home the award for Trading Desk of the Year Long-Only and Trading Desk of the Year Hedge Fund, respectively. Meanwhile, T.

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The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

BIDS Trading has appointed Brian Hickey senior director of product. Hickey previously served as head of product at LedgerEdge for nearly a year and a half, prior to the trading platform closing down last year. Most recently, he served as head of cross-asset electronic trading, a position he held for just over three years.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Jefferies has appointed Joram Siegel as managing director, head of fixed income outsourced trading. Siegel joins Jefferies from Marex, where he spent the last four months serving as head of fixed income outsourced trading. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Trading Technologies (TT) has made three new appointments to its senior leadership team, including chief operating officer; executive vice president of fixed income; and executive vice president of futures and options – all of which will join the firm on 1 January 2024.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 11, 2024

Merlo added: “Argentina’s capital market has been subject to periods of substantial increases in transaction volumes, which has put pressure on its own technological infrastructure. The post Argentinian CSD launches Nasdaq-backed technology platform to upgrade post-trade infrastructure appeared first on The TRADE.

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Global Banking & Finance

MAY 7, 2024

Race for Europe’s first ‘real-time’ stock trade tape heats up By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Banks and asset managers are vying with Europe’s exchanges to develop technology that can deepen the pool of investors in the continent’s capital markets and better compete with Wall Street.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danske Bank has selected Broadridge’s multi-asset trading and market making solution, Tbricks, to support multi-asset trading, pricing and position management across its various locations. Tbricks provides a modular trading platform with a flexible user interface, built-in functionality and customisability.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the evolution of digital assets as a distinct class continues to accelerate, the FIX Trading Community is set to establish specific standards for the area, focusing on three core pillars: interoperability, regulation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) application.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 16, 2024

There have been 44 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the US stock markets in 2024 thus far, many of which continue to trade at a premium to their initial offering price, demonstrating the strength and buoyancy of current public markets.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Commodities specialist Marex has completed its acquisition of TD Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business, first announced in September. It’s something that we learned to do quite well when we got to Cowen and we had a lot of success with working with different product lines,” Rosen told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Gavin Collins has joined Trumid in a newly created role to head up its dealer-to-client Attributed Trading protocol. He has two decades of experience in the capital markets industry and was previously Neptune’s chief technology and product officer, having joined back in 2021.

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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.

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The TRADE

APRIL 16, 2024

BMLL has moved to expand its regional Asia-Pacific offering with the launch of India equities trading data, The TRADE can reveal. India data, BMLL chief executive Paul Humphrey tells The TRADE, is in particular demand from US clients thanks to demand for trading in the region. They like trading there.”

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Business Standard - FInance

JUNE 25, 2023

The rupee traded almost flat at 81.95 against the US currency in the opening trade on Monday amid gains in local stocks and losses in the dollar against major rivals in global markets. against the dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market. The currency moved in a narrow range before trading at 81.95

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The TRADE

JUNE 1, 2023

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has launched a new trading system, alongside market data distribution and market surveillance systems, based on Nasdaq technology. The newly developed solution will support increasing transaction volumes and a range of investment products, while further enhancing the integrity of the market.

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

The creation of private rooms where members can trade bilaterally behind closed doors and the impact this would have on liquidity was a key theme addressed at TradeTech Europe 2024, with panellists discussing whether such methods can be considered fair and equitable. We talk a lot about retail and retail involvement in the market.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There is a clear appetite for new innovations around the block market in Europe. Earlier this year, Aquis Exchange confirmed it was acquiring a minority stake in OptimX Markets in a bid to expand its block crossing remit with the investment having been made as part of a consortium including the venture capital arm of Deutsche Boerse Group.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business has been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. Expanding our capital markets business also adds to our diversification and to the resilience of our franchise.” TD Bank Group completed its all-cash $1.3

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The TRADE

AUGUST 3, 2023

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has reported positive first half results on the back of strong growth in its data and analytics and post-trade divisions. Total income grew to £4 billion, marking an 8% increase in comparison with H1 results from 2022, largely thanks to an “outstanding” 19% growth in post-trade revenues.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

to cover previously exempt proprietary trading firms. The move to increase the number of broker dealer firms registering with FINRA comes as the commission aims to promote fair, orderly, and more efficient markets. The post Majority of prop trading firms obliged to join FINRA under expanded SEC rule appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 11, 2024

As part of the expansion, FIS has extended its FIS’ Cleared Derivatives (CD) platform – historically used by clearing members – to buy-side firms including hedge funds, asset managers and insurance companies, allowing them to access trading venues and clearing houses directly, which can help reduce counterparty risk and free up capital.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

” Read more: SEC adopts new short selling rule to bolster transparency for market participants The associations also made reference to other flaws, which overall go against the SEC’s stated aim of protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets. “The

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kerim Acanal, global head of emerging markets, Tradeweb The request-for-market (RFM) protocol will continue to be the next frontier for electronic trading in emerging markets. This is illustrative of the markets’ protocol preferences changing, and RFM proving its worth as an important tool.

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The TRADE

JULY 25, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz has left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies, The TRADE can reveal. During his time with the asset manager Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. He was also at Merrill Lynch for eight years.

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