The TRADE

JANUARY 18, 2024

When brokers are facing off with a whole crowd full of highly capitalised traders, they can work the order a bit better, control the execution and have more effective price discovery.” The exchange at the time highlighted client demand for additional floor-based traders as the driving factor behind the decision.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We’re expecting to continue to see an uptake of this protocol in local cash bond markets particularly, helping traders to tap into an expanding liquidity pool. It has been beyond frustrating that every man, woman and their dog have been fixated with talking about AI in the abstract in 2023.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Traders follow two different types of replicating portfolio methods. While offsetting a static portfolio, traders or portfolio managers need not rebalance or reset the portfolio to accommodate the changes registered due to market volatility. Limitations Here are the limitations of such portfolios that are often invisible to traders.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We have working groups of buy-side asset managers that are talking to each other but I haven’t heard much consensus or solutions yet. If everyone’s waking up in the middle of the night and there’s a lot of things going on, it’s not great for morale so this can make that the traders lives a lot easier.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The panel also highlighted the importance of incoming traders being flexible in terms of their growth opportunities and approach when it comes to developing their skills, agreeing that the optimum mix is a high performing quant individual with a good grasp of data, combined with a sociable attitude.

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

There’s still this mistrust of TCA [among traders] because who’s to say whether I’ve done a good job or not? There’s often that initial resistance but we’re moving to a place where traders are now, for the most part, much more engaged with it. However, reservations about its usage still exist among users.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

This allows traders worldwide to be able to meet the demand for a particular currency at any given time. What that has meant is that a lot of people around the world in the last 20-30 years start talking about their stock portfolio, including equities from other countries and other regions around the world than their home market.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Overall, it seems that the market is tuning into what a volatile market means for future strategies, with volatility trading a key talking point. Even during market slowdowns, like that seen over summer year on year, it is an area which remains increasingly relevant and moving.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Household names Deutsche Bank and Nomura all but departed the scene – joining Credit Suisse – while some remaining bank primes are seeking a diversification of clients, with widespread talk of offboarding or limiting access for numerous funds.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

We would all have to adjust how we interact with the exchanges, it’s going to be another venue that traders need to send their child orders to. We can debate the details and talk about the nuance, but ultimately, institutions benefit from a more efficient market,” concludes Stockland.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

That could be a trader bringing us in to talk about outsourcing or a COO who’s doing something to replace the trading desk. Many point to how ‘juniorisation’ is occurring within the asset management execution space, therefore, to be able to show a roster of ex-buy-side traders is appealing to prospective clients.

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The TRADE

APRIL 30, 2024

Mifid: Coming in third is one of the most talked about regulations in Europe over the past two decades – the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), which was first implemented in 2007 across the EU to harmonise regulation for investment services and activities.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Speaking to the reasoning behind APG Asset Management’s move to a single EMS, senior trader Sunil Patil asserted that a single EMS simply makes sense when it comes to multiple asset trading. James Barnett, multi-asset trader at Manulife Investment Management, addressed the fact that there are currently no plans to move in that direction.

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Growth Business

MARCH 1, 2024

From the outset the Bridges and Innovate teams had a good rapport, and we talked a lot together before entering into detailed negotiations. We stayed in touch and, following various meetings, both parties were keen to pursue the opportunity. Those discussions were about social impact, strategy, the marketplace and the team.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For some asset managers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours.

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