The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Christoph Hock, head of multi-asset trading at Union Investment, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading 2023 gala awards ceremony last night. The TRADE would like to extend its congratulations to Hock for his long-standing commitment and service to the industry.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Order and execution management platform, Adroit Trading Technologies, has raised $15 million in its series A funding round led by specialised growth equity firm, Centana Growth Partners, with the capital set to be used to accelerate the business’ growth. It services the likes of Invesco.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

BTON Financial is a cloud-based, AI, and data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) solution developed to aid buy-side trading desks with reducing costs while still increasing performance. The post FlexTrade and BTON Financial deliver AI-powered trading automation solution appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. 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.

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

However, despite this, Joe Collery, head of trading at Comgest endorsed a measured approach whilst speaking at TradeTech earlier this week. Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfolio managers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the benefits of merging trading across asset classes? The key benefits of merging the trading function to be multi-asset have to come down to efficiency and scale, both as it relates to the execution of trades but also on how the trader operates when observing markets, providing market colour and looking at data.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. 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.

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The TRADE

JUNE 2, 2023

Edouard Petitcollot Candriam has overhauled its global trading structure in a bid to refocus its attention on more complex and high touch trading strategies, The TRADE can reveal. Edouard Petitcollot will lead the operation as global head of trading. High touch trading can be renewed.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Trading Technologies International (TT) appointed Gavin Miller as its new director of EMEA sales – TT Fixed Income. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Miller worked as a credit trader at Salomon Smith Barney – now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 5, 2024

Jefferies’ managing director and head of US equity distribution in Europe, Guy Trust, has left the bank after nearly a decade to join Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, The TRADE can reveal. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2024

Zakria Hussain has left Crédit Agricole, where he most recently served as global head of eFX spot trading, to join Nomura Group’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital as head of OTC trading. Liquidnet appointed Lara Jacobs as head of international client trading EMEA.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that its guidance regarding the post-Brexit definition of trading venues has come into force today, 9 October. It makes clear that in the case that a firm does not operate a multilateral system, it will not require authorisation as a trading venue.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM. Ellipsis AM’s convertible team currently comprises of four portfolio managers, with each one performing the role of trader alongside acting as portfolio manager.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For Sharon Ruffles, head of fixed income trading for EMEA and Asia Pacific at State Street Global Advisors, the beauty of fixed income lies in how much one day can vary from the next. She began her trading career on an all-female trading desk, and says it was watching the world’s news play out in the markets that drew her to trading. “I

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

Around-the-clock (24/7) trading is something we already see in the foreign exchange markets and the growing cryptocurrency landscape. Some exchanges do offer pre-market and after-hours trading sessions, where limited trading activity occurs outside regular trading hours. Already in EMEA, we have six valid trading days.

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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. The post Appital Insights completes integration with FactSet Portware EMS appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

Specifically, the futures on the small index segment can be used as instruments for: cash management, hedging, and creating and trading ETPs and structured products. The post Nasdaq unveils new Swedish small cap index future offering appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

When it comes to desk organisation, where derivatives fit in has been a key focal point for firms in recent times, with key buy-siders unpacked their approach to managing the evolving asset class on a TradeTech panel this week. Ultimately for T.Rowe, the firm had much the same reasons (as Allianz) to rethink and readjust their strategy.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2019, Nutting was nominated by her industry peers as one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution, and just four years later, she was shortlisted for The TRADE’s coveted Buy-side Trader of the Year Award. That same year, she was recognised by The TRADE and the industry as a Rising Star of Trading and Execution.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

Wavelabs has opened up its eLiSA execution management system (EMS) to non-users with modular versions of the system’s analytics products, The TRADE can reveal. A user can access the analytics either via API or through a small user interface which can be integrated with a trading environment.

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The TRADE

JULY 21, 2023

Axes have typically been used by traders looking to execute larger or block trades which they are not comfortable executing electronically. The ability to find a matching opposing side remains crucial in the many, less liquid areas within fixed income,” Lars Salmon, head of fixed income trading EMEA at Fidelity International, told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MARCH 20, 2024

Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors will be provided with more efficient ways to hedge their global equity exposure, while minimising potential trading error and currency risk. The post Cboe Global Markets expands derivatives remit with options on three new MSCI indices appeared first on The TRADE.

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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. While at Credit Suisse, Polera most recently served as director of equity sales trading.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

BlueCrest Capital Management’s new company, FX trading technology platform BlueX, has appointed Graham MacGregor as chief executive officer. Elsewhere in his career, MacGregor was EMEA head of sales and relationship management and chief executive, FX MTF business at Refinitiv.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

JP Morgan subsidiary Neovest has moved to expand its capabilities in the hedge fund sphere with the acquisition of investment management platform LayerOne Financial. The deal is intended to allow the multi-asset and broker neutral order and execution management platform to offer integrated execution, order and portfolio management services.

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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.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

State Street has expanded the capabilities of its Alpha platform to support the entire lifecycle for exchange traded funds (ETFs). Available to all participants on the platform, the enhancement provides connectivity and electronic communication through an industry protocol used in electronic trading.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As part of the acquisition, Bryan Messer has been appointed general manager of Asia Pacific, managing director of portfolio management solutions and artificial intelligence at LiquidityBook, with his staff also joining. In addition, the accounting and reconciliation engines of Messer Financial Software will be integrated.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

” The service also provides portfolio managers and client relationship flexible views of attribution factors in their investment, improving decision-making processes and communication with their investors. Earlier this year , SimCorp partnered with FlexTrade Systems to bolster its order management system (OMS) capabilities.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2023

Fixed income trading venue and data provider MarketAxess has expanded its integration with the Investortool platform for its municipal bond activity From now, MarketAxess’ offerings will be displayed on the Investortools Dealer Network (IDN) as it seeks to expand its electronic municipal trading.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The lack of regulated trading venues is materially hampering the growth of the crypto derivatives trading market,” said Jeremy Punnett, M&G portfolio manager. ” The post M&G Investments leads $30 million Series B funding round for GFO-X appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Triodos Investment Management has selected Bloomberg’s AIM and PORT Enterprise solutions in a bid to support its front-office workflows. Through the adoptions, Triodos is set to benefit from enhanced pre-trade compliance and data consistency across its consolidated front-office processes.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies. Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

London-based fintech C8 Technologies is set to launch an FX hedging platform which employs systemic trading models to help businesses manage their currency exposures. Jonathan Webb, former head of FX strategy at Jefferies, manages the C8 Hedge platform.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 10, 2023

One of the benefits of growth in FX clearing includes developments in financial resource management tools, said Coalition Greenwich, further highlighting that increased clearing is set to affect how and with whom the buy-side trades.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2024

It has approximately £351 million in assets under management and manages two strategies: global high yield, launched in 2006, and emerging market corporate debt, launched in 2010. The post Impax Asset Management to acquire corporate credit business from partner firm Formuepleje Group appeared first on The TRADE.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Since the portfolio calculates the risk-return factors of similar assets to mimic them, replicating portfolios are usually (not always) adjusted from time to time. Though liquid traded assets are preferred, illiquid assets may also be included in such portfolios. Table of contents What Is A Replicating Portfolio?

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