Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 8, 2025

Washington, DC, (January 9, 2025) FOCUS Investment Banking is pleased to announce that John-Michael Tamburro has joined the firm as a Managing Director in its Technology Services group. He began his journey at Scotiabank in Canada, where he spent five years mastering the intricacies of derivatives and risk management.

Investment Banking

The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2025

Through the partnership Nasdaq Calypso will also expand its capabilities to support automated 24/7 margin and collateral management across assets. Financial institutions need to improve real time risk management and mobilise collateral to optimse capital and liquidity deployment.

Financial Institution

The TRADE

JULY 31, 2025

David Schwimmer The markets offering provides secondary market trading for equities, fixed income, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange (FX) and other asset classes, as well as clearing, risk management, capital optimisation and regulatory reporting solutions. Equities revenue reached £205 million, a 4.4%

Risk Management

The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2025

Buy-side traders value the expertise and risk management capabilities of high-touch sales traders. Forster added: While electronic trading is becoming more prevalent, high-touch sales traders still play a vital role in program trading, particularly for complex orders or those involving non-U.S. constituents.

Equities

Growth Business

JULY 16, 2025

However, careful planning and risk management are essential to ensure debt levels remain sustainable as the business evolves. High street banks Finding the right contact at a high street bank can unlock lending opportunities that may not be accessible through a longstanding relationship manager alone.

Debt

The TRADE

JULY 29, 2025

Technology provider Rapid Addition has partnered with TradingStack.io in a bid to enhance connectivity in the global digital asset markets. Mike Powell Through the partnership, TradingStack.io

Collaboration

iMerge Advisors

APRIL 15, 2025

Third-Party Risk Management A list of vendors with access to sensitive data, along with your vetting and monitoring procedures. Buyers expect clear, auditable documentation that demonstrates your commitment to protecting user data and managing risk. AWS, Google Cloud).

Securities

The TRADE

JULY 24, 2025

Hidden Road has expanded its prime brokerage product suite with the launch of support for OTC options on digital assets. billion deal, which is expected to “exponentially’ expand the firm’s capacity, and make it one of the largest non-bank prime brokers globally. The deal is expected to close later in 2025, subject to regulatory approvals.

Broker

The TRADE

JULY 16, 2025

Read more – Wedbush Securities integrates Rapid Addition’s platform to upgrade trading infrastructure Cromwell Coulson, chief executive of OTC Markets Group said: “By integrating MOON ATS and OTC Overnight into its 24-hour trading offering, Wedbush is expanding global market access in a way that reflects its core mission: protecting client (..)

Trading

The TRADE

JUNE 16, 2025

Aroeman brings more than 30 years of industry experience to his new role, largely covering the delivery of derivatives, structured products and risk management solutions to Indonesian clients. Meroni joins from Sanford Bernstein and also previously served at Lehman, Goldman Sachs, UBS Investment Bank and Nomura.

Capital Market

The TRADE

JULY 15, 2025

Tony Hall, global head of trading and XVA, markets, at Standard Chartered, said: “We are applying our global expertise, infrastructure and risk management frameworks that our clients trust to the digital assets space.” The announcement marks a further development in the digital asset space for Standard Chartered in recent months.

Trading

The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Portuguese independent domestic bank has used Nasdaqs solution to conduct back-office processing for nearly 20 years, with the latest move set to see the bank incorporate its risk and front-office functionality to fully integrate the technology underpinning its treasury function.

Capital Market

The TRADE

JUNE 11, 2025

Aroeman brings more than 30 years of industry experience to his new role, largely covering the delivery of derivatives, structured products and risk management solutions to Indonesian clients. Benny Aroeman has joined Citi as head of markets for Indonesia in a push to bolster the firm’s client solutions and markets business.

Financial Institution

The TRADE

JANUARY 14, 2025

BSE confirmed that it has certified the Fidessa trading platforms integrated suite of algorithms as compliant with exchange rules, regulatory standards, and risk management requirements. In June last year, ION received approval to become an equities trading vendor on BSE.

Trading

The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2025

In March 2025, the provider collaborated with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to unveil a new order routing service, JSE-FIX, designed to reduce the cost of sending orders.

Trading

The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has entered an agreement to provide trading, clearing and market surveillance technology to power Brazil’s next-generation derivatives and futures exchange, A5X. Ron Lefferts The agreement will see A5X operating LSEG’s integrated market infrastructure technology suite, which includes pre-trade risk management, (..)

Risk Management

Solganick & Co.

APRIL 21, 2025

Security Operations constituted the largest sub-sector of M&A activity , followed by Risk Management , Infrastructure , and Identity. Strategic acquirers are increasingly unifying disparate security tools to simplifyoperations and gain greater visibilityacross organizations’attack surface and prioritize cyber risks.

M&A

The TRADE

JUNE 16, 2025

Euronext and Clearstream have unveiled a new partnership aimed at advancing the continued development of Euronext Clearing’s collateral management services across repo, as well as other asset classes. Anthony Attia The move is a step closer to Euronext’s goal of creating a unified, pan-European clearing model for its repo clearing franchise.

Management

Lake Country Advisors

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a co-owner, you share risks, manage financial obligations, and potentially take part in daily operations based on the terms outlined in your partnership agreement. Understanding the Basics of Buying Into a Business Buying into a business as a partner is a significant step that involves more than just financial investment.

Business

The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2025

They want to invest in American companies and participate, but exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ at the time did not offer the service that meant they could do it in real time and at their convenience. Following that, four years ago, we approached the SEC to request a license for a stock exchange that trades overnight.

Trading

The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2025

RBC Capital Markets has joined credit default swaps (CDS) clearinghouse, ICE Clear Credit, as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) clearing participant. Eric Aldous The move comes as part of the firm’s push to expand its CDS client clearing services and marks the first FCM with a Canadian parent company, Royal Bank of Canada, to join ICE Clear Credit. (..)

Capital Market

The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2024

I also expect more advanced models to be released for non-equity asset classes, as they attempt to catch up with the maturity of the equity analytics currently available. This continued push towards AI seems inevitable however, it will be interesting to view how the tangible gains differ between buy- and sell-side firms, vendors, and venues.

Trading

European Investment Bank

JUNE 12, 2025

This publication presents a comprehensive index assessing climate risk for over 170 countries, distinguishing between physical and transition risks while accounting for adaptation and mitigation capacities.

Risk Management

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Speaking to the reasons in more depth, Müller explained it was down to “the successful risk management mechanisms of CC Ps, including initial margin and variation margin.” Specifically, variation margin refers to the margin to margin each day, while initial margin makes up the part of margin that covers future market moves.

Trading

CNBC: Investing

JULY 24, 2025

I'll be back at the end with a risk management comment. For obvious reasons, this makes for an attractive risk-reward and many portfolio managers love building allocations with stocks like these. In 1983, the first contract on a stock market index came along when the CBOE unveiled its S & P 100 options offering.

Stock

The TRADE

APRIL 16, 2025

Ivan Brown The exchange operator said the new venue will align with the needs of options industry participants and tackle risk management challenges in the market. IEX has firmed up the date for its new options exchange, IEX Options, set to be launched by Q2 2026, pending regulatory approval.

Book-building

European Investment Bank

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The EIB Group publishes semi-annually its Group Risk Management Disclosure report (the GRMD Report) which provides disclosures about EIB Groups exposure to risks. The GRMD Report also referred to as Pillar 3 - enhances the EIB Groups market transparency with respect to its risk profile, risk management policies and practices.

Risk Management

CNBC: Investing

JULY 17, 2025

I like to think I am running such a business in wealth management — by incorporating tax and insurance in-house for wealth management clients, we've made ourselves indispensable. Risk management Josh — This one's easy. As an investor, I am always looking for stories like the one we're about to tell.

Stock

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

JULY 9, 2025

PLANO, Texas, July 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Three specialized technology firms have merged under a team of proven industry veterans to create Covasant Technologies, a new powerhouse focused on solving complex risk, compliance, and cybersecurity challenges with Agentic AI.

Risk Management

The TRADE

JUNE 30, 2025

In March 2025, Clear Street partnered with Blue Ocean to expand to 24-hour, 6-day trading capabilities, with the aim of enhancing liquidity access and risk management for Clear Street’s global client base. The post Blue Ocean leverages Eventus’ Validus platform for trade surveillance appeared first on The TRADE.

Trading

CNBC: Investing

JULY 1, 2025

The first thing that jumped out at me was the breadth of sector dispersion among the top ten Best Stocks this month. It's not concentrated to any one or two sectors, it's all over the map. Last but not certainly not least is KLAC and NVDA , two semiconductor giants, with NVDA nearing a $4 trillion market cap. Welcome to the list, Hilton.

Stock

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 20, 2025

Josh — During the last earnings season, the hyperscalers all affirmed their guidance for capital expenditures this year. The AI data center and infrastructure buildout is not slowing down. Earnings results and AI-related commentary from Oracle and AMD over the past week make it clear that this theme remains on fire.

Stock

CNBC: Investing

JULY 28, 2025

This is remarkable when you consider that this is not a "risk-off" year in which investors reach for stocks that should hold up well in a downturn. It's a risk-on year so far and defensive stocks like consumer staples and healthcare are lagging. per customer, per month going forward.

Utilities

JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 13, 2025

Launched via an April 24 memo from Acting DoD CIO Katie Arrington, the DoD’s Software Fast Track (SWFT) Initiative entered a 90‑day sprint to redefine Accelerating the Authority to Operate (ATOs), aiming to replace the outdated Risk Management Framework (RMF) with AI‑enabled, continuous compliance workflows.

Risk Management

The TRADE

JULY 31, 2025

Similarly, in the same month ION unveiled a partnership with the trading venue , which sees ION powering market access, clearing and margin processing for GFO-X’s ecosystem, through the provision of software and infrastructure.

Trading

Solganick & Co.

JULY 24, 2025

Infrastructure constituted the largest sub-sector of M&A activity, followed by Risk Management and Data Protection. The deal team has completed over 200 M&A transactions to date and is recognized by Axial and other industry leaders as a top investment banking firm. Established in 2009 with offices in Dallas and Los Angeles.

M&A

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 26, 2025

We were surprised to find out it was the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF , more commonly known as IEMG (Disclosure: we own this for client accounts at Ritholtz Wealth Management): Up until recently, the emerging markets equity asset class has been fast asleep, but now, as you can see, it's waking up. Until now. gross margin and 1.9%

Stock