The TRADE

JULY 14, 2025

As capital markets have continued to evolve at a rapid pace – with increased regulatory scrutiny showing no sign of let up – 87% of companies have increased their investment in the cloud over the last two years, according to a recent report by the London Stock Exchange Group.

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The TRADE

JUNE 27, 2025

Broker-dealer Bruce Markets’ Alternative Trading System (ATS) offering has announced a new strategic investment round, led by leading industry players including Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Robinhood. Currently, Bruce ATS provides trading for US Reg NMS between 8pm and 4am ET, Sunday to Thursday.

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The TRADE

JUNE 12, 2025

LSEG has appointed former Taula Capital executive, Nick Rustad, as its new group head of LCH SwapClear and listed rates. Rustad brings 25 years of financial markets experience to his new role, which will see him assuming the responsibility for driving the growth and performance of SwapClear and listed rates clearing services. He will report to (..)

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But what does the persistent evolution of AI mean for capital markets specifically? The world of trading, and investment generally, is littered with the remnants of now-redundant solutions once thought to be the ‘future’ of the industry.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2025

LSEG clients will be able to continue using historical, quantitative FTSE Russell indices through AWS, which is expected to address challenges of time-to-insight and operational costs by allowing for deep access to market trends and patterns. The move allowed Murexs MX.3 The move allowed Murexs MX.3

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The TRADE

JUNE 16, 2025

The enhanced service offering is expected to go live in November 2025. “As financial markets become more unpredictable, demanding greater speed and efficiency, we stay committed to empowering our clients with reliable and scalable state-of-the-art solutions,” said Sam Riley, chief executive of Clearstream Securities Services.

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The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2025

Thomas Gallagher The initial agreement on a recommended cash offer for MIH was reached in March 2025. The deal, valued at £70.4

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OfficeHours

MAY 16, 2023

Hedge funds are significant players in financial markets given the size of their capital bases and the frequency of their trading. One widely cited estimate is that hedge funds account for around 5-6% of total equity trading volume in the US. Citadel Securities is one of the leading market-makers in the world.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2024. Industry Person of the Year 2024 shortlist: James Baugh, managing director, head of European market structure, TD Cowen James Baugh is an industry stalwart, having worked in the financial markets for over 25 years.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the dynamic realm of the financial markets, the introduction of technology has proven to be a catalyst for transformative change, overhauling existing trading strategies. Among the wide range of advancements, algorithmic trading has revolutionised how financial instruments are bought and sold.

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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

MAY 16, 2024

In the constantly evolving financial markets landscape, where volatility and complexity are continually featured, the ability to discern the true costs of trading has become paramount for investors and institutions alike.

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Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The international currency trading market, or Forex, generates $4 trillion in turnover each day. These impressive figures undoubtedly place Forex first among global financial markets. It is popular among both beginners who are just learning the fundamentals of trading and professionals.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The post Qatar’s Edaa postpones T+2 switch until March appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 25, 2024

Named Smart Markets, the new service will transform Euroclear’s data into interpretable insights to detect market movements, enhance trading models and build informed strategies. Smart Markets brings together raw data from market sources including Euroclear, which is then enriched, normalised and analysed automatically.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. Poilvet-Clédière brings over 15 years’ experience in financial markets to the role.

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The TRADE

MARCH 12, 2024

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 15, 2023

ESMA did, however, highlight that the reduction of time available for post-trade processes would be even more acute if the EU was to move to T+0. If a decision to move to T+1 is made, it will be necessary to define an appropriate timetable that generates industry momentum and provides clarity to market participants.”

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

Terry Duffy The plan is to build a new private Google Cloud region to support CME Group’s global trading, offering derivatives traders access to “cloud-based, ultra-low-latency networking and high-performance computing”. Recent times have seen a swathe of investments from major cloud providers into leading exchanges.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Access to high quality data is crucial but thanks to innovation and AI we are now able to enhance foreign exchange trading workflow in a most efficient way. Human capital remains highly valuable and being able to leverage automation coupled with human insight can have a huge value add.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

Former Northern Trust sales trader Maddy Davies has joined Liontrust as a trader in its multi asset trading team, The TRADE can reveal. The post Liontrust adds former Northern Trust sales trader to its multi asset trading team appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Peter Welsby, head of European FICC trading, Manulife Investment Management   Regulation will continue to direct market trends in 2 024, just as it has in recent years. In fixed income, focus will remain on data transparency and whether consolidated tapes would be beneficial or detrimental to liquidity in the EU and emerging markets.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Outsourced trading solutions firm, Tourmaline Partners, has hired three new seasoned financial markets executives as managing directors to help strengthen its global trading capabilities, The TRADE can reveal.  It could be said that Europe was slow to adopt our version of supplemental trading.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We have seen new entrants into the block space in 2023, and I see further appetite in 2024 as buy-side traders seek safer and larger block liquidity – I foresee “superblock” venues and an increase in capital provision. The post The TRADE predictions series 2024: Market volatility appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

EU asset managers, banks and brokers are urging policy markets not to succumb to pressure that could potentially lead to suboptimal outcomes in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid/r) review.

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The TRADE

JULY 4, 2023

Following last week’s agreement, a real-time EU-level consolidated tape for a range of assets traded in the EU will be established, including key information such as the price of instruments and the volume and time of transactions. Data from all trading platforms will be included in the consolidated tape. told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2023. The winner will be decided by a live industry vote at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading gala awards night on 8 November. Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted nominees!

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The TRADE

APRIL 3, 2024

The Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are working together to operate a new Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) – a regime that will allow firms to use developing technology in the issuance, trading and settlement of securities. The DSS is expected to open applications in the summer of 2024.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Among those to have responded have been the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the Association of Global Custodians (AGC). ICMA commented that progressive penalties introduces unnecessary stress to a market that is most likely already facing liquidity challenges.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The post ESMA opens door for T+1 implementation in Europe appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 31, 2023

Liquidnet brings knowledge and experience in capital markets to the Partnership and will play a crucial role in shaping and informing Plato’s initiatives within capital markets, the organisation said. The post Plato Partnership admits Liquidnet as strategic partner appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

Bloomberg and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) have enhanced their Swap Connect solutions to better facilitate global investments in China’s onshore interbank interest rate swap (IRS) markets. Swap Connect is the OTC derivatives trading link between Mainland China and Hong Kong, which allows market participants to trade IRS.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The aftermath of 2022’s high volatility – which peaked in Q4 – has led firms to increase the degree to which they hedge, with the market acutely aware of the persistent threat of significant geopolitical situations across the globe. Specifically, the combination of rising interest rates, high inflation and geopolitical uncertainty.

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The TRADE

APRIL 26, 2024

With ETFs increasingly becoming more popular in Europe, panellists at TradeTech highlighted fragmentation and regulation as two key pain points that need to be addressed going forward in order to boost growth in the trading segment. Investors have different demands – what they want, how they want to trade and settle.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Read more: Outsourced trading desk Tourmaline gains majority investment Speaking to Goodman’s departure, Aaron Hantman, chief executive of Tourmaline, told The TRADE: “We see an even healthier sales pipeline right now and want the head trader role in the US to be a more commercially focused role.” He is a terrific trader. Moving

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The TRADE

MAY 29, 2024

Innovation is inevitable as market participants continually seek to enhance their operations across the board, and stock exchanges and trading venues are perhaps some of the most prominent advocates of embracing emerging technological advancements.

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