The TRADE

MARCH 18, 2024

BTIG 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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Software Equity Group

MARCH 26, 2024

For top private equity firms, there’s a lot to like about SaaS. Top Software Private Equity Firms Here is a select list of the most active PE investors in the SaaS and software industry over the past year (data taken from the SEG 2024 Annual SaaS Report ). The firm employs 93 professionals.

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The TRADE

JULY 29, 2024

Previously he worked as an equities and fixed income trader at James Hambro & Partners and before that as a high touch cash equities trader for Jefferies. He joined Ninety One in 2013 as a client operations analyst, moving into a portfolio implementation role in 2015 and taking up his current role as fixed income trader in 2018.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. Equity Research vs. Fixed Income Research Common Myths What Do You Do as a Fixed Income Research Analyst or Associate? Each role has common analytical elements, but the specifics and deliverables differ (e.g.,

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow. Robeco formerly had a central multi-asset trading desk across equities, foreign exchange and fixed income, headed up by Robbert Wijgerse.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

Yet with equities, these markets are constrained by market hours which may be specific to a region and/or exchanges themselves. With Middle East and North Africa (MENA) becoming a larger part of indices and portfolio managers’ thinking, decisions will have to be taken around how best to trade these markets.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As head of State Street Global Advisors Europe – her current role – she is responsible for the firm’s EU-based portfolio management, distribution, product development, fund management and operations. Arqaam confirmed that Shalabi will have a specific focus on enhancing the firm’s electronic trading capabilities as well.

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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. BTIG appointed Sean Shanker as a managing director within the electronic trading team, based in New York.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Miller is a Bloomberg veteran having spent over 20 years at the company, holding several senior positions, including: global head of sales and account management (global markets electronic trading); global head of fixed income, currencies, commodities electronic sales; and global head fixed income electronic trading sales.

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The TRADE

MAY 2, 2024

Appital Insights went live in September 2023, helping unlock liquidity unavailable through traditional electronic trading venues.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Alongside him, Torsten Schöneborn joined the bank from BNP Paribas where he had been global head of electronic platform and global head of quant prime broking. Before that, he spent almost 10 years at Deutsche Bank, where his roles included global co-head of electronic equities and head of eFX spot quant trading.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Webster also joins from Credit Suisse where she had previously spent 18 years, first as a pan European equity cash trader and later in a sales and trading role also within the AES division.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These entities currently contribute to more than 85% of the equity turnover in Vienna. The Vienna Stock Exchange has included Barclays Bank Ireland as a new trading member on its platform. The new international trading member will participate in trading as of today. Specifically, 47.6% of the turnover originates from Germany, 20.7%

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bookbuilding platform Appital has launched a new initiative to unlock liquidity unavailable through traditional electronic trading venues. Traders and portfolio managers will also be able to access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 23, 2023

Asset managers have tapped fixed income, equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs) for their greatest market data spend over the next 12 months, according to a new Coalition Greenwich and SIX report published on 22 August. This has increased the amount of data needed for participants to execute.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 24, 2024

Algorithmic development has and always will evolve to achieve the best performance possible versus the client benchmark,” says Alex Harman, head of EMEA electronic and program trading at Goldman Sachs. The longer I take, the more opportunity/risk I’m exposed to.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy. You’re taught to almost think like a PM.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. Jefferies appointed Peter Johansson as an equity sales trader. Griffin left Kepler in May after over eight years with the broker dealer.

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The TRADE

MAY 28, 2024

The levels of trading volumes in European equities are influenced by a complex interplay of various factors like market fragmentation, economic conditions, monetary policy, investor behaviour and market volatility among other things. Where should regulators be focusing their attention to boost volumes in Europe?

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

He joined the broker dealer in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. Kepler Cheuvreux’s head of market structure and liquidity solutions has left the broker dealer, The TRADE can reveal. His next role is unconfirmed.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities. Prior to joining Rothschild in January 2023, Finke spent nearly five years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity trader covering equities and FX. His new role is unconfirmed.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

RBC’s co-head of European electronic sales and trading, Bianca Gould, is set to leave the bank after almost three years, as part of streamlining measures. According to sources familiar with the matter, it has been communicated to clients that due to streamlining, certain roles have been eliminated.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Raymond joined LGIM as its head of credit trading in 2019 when the asset manager was undergoing the process of splitting up its portfolio management and trading capabilities. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business. Before Morgan Stanley, Gray was a director and a co-founding partner of electronic crossing network start-up, MarketTouch, funded by GNI and Old Mutual.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. The post Kepler’s Byron Griffin to join ODDO BHF appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There will be a focus on reliable and proven data sets that both optimise returns while reducing risk, and that are applicable to portfolios across many asset types and multiple geographies. You will also continue to see a push to modernise the loan market, whether through digitised loan data or electronic trading.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique asset manager Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment portfolio analyst in London in 1986, Ruffles has seen the markets through several highs and lows. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In asks Ruffles. Absolutely yes.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Beginning her career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as director and head of portfolio sales trading in 1997, she later went on to spend six years at JP Morgan, initially as an executive director and head of execution sales responsible for electronic and portfolio trading and ETFs.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

Although I had been trading for a long time my background had been mainly in equities so moving to multi-asset was quite a shock to the system and a steep learning curve. Sitting on the desk as an assistant was exciting, listening to the different styles used by the traders and hearing how they interacted with the sell-side.

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Growth Business

MAY 19, 2023

Contact: +44 (0)20 7240 0202 Equity Gap Bio: Established in 2010 to help match private investors with young entrepreneurial companies looking for early stage business funding, Equity Gap is an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate with 150 active members. More on Equity Gap’s investment criteria here.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Bloomberg appointed Colin Williams in an electronic trading and analytics solutions role. Williams joined from BNY Mellon, where he spent the last six years, most recently serving as an equity trader. Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Secondly, major advances in technology and data science have greatly influenced not only the role of trading, but the entire investment decision making process, with increasing reliance on electronic trading. Portfolio trading has been especially impactful for credit markets where liquidity can be challenging. Adaptability is key.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At the time of the launch, PureStream claimed to enable institutional investors to execute up to 40 times faster without price impact on their portfolio implementations. PureStream has been one of the more disruptive ideas to the equities market structure that the market has seen in quite some time.

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Focus Investment Banking

MAY 31, 2024

Serving a variety of end markets, including aerospace & defense, electronics and industrials, National offers especially deep experience in the medical end market across various implantable devices, including pacemakers, neuromodulation devices, defibrillators, batteries and capacitors. National”).

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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. Among the new features is TradeSmart’s liquidity snapshot, which enables fixed income traders to electronically capture all inputs required to meet regulatory and compliance requirements.

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Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Private equity’s investments in ophthalmology are entering a new, more mature lifecycle phase. We also expect many platform recapitalizations once private equity groups and lenders become comfortable with the interest rate environment. Most ophthalmology PPM organizations are still with their founding private equity sponsor.

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