The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Running for its ninth year, the Rising Stars initiative, in partnership with Instinet, has recognised a number of up-and-coming talents over the years, many of whom have gone on to hold impressive roles and head up some of the largest and most successful desks across the world’s leading asset managers and hedge funds.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Stephen Grady, head of global markets and executive vice president at Lombard Odier, accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from The TRADE last night at Leaders in Trading 2024. He then moved to London in 1997 for a senior dealer role at Legal & General Investment Management.

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The TRADE

MARCH 26, 2024

Leveraged loan trading revenue topped $900 million in 2023, up 16% from 2021 and 29% from 2022, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. Execution quality was the key priority when choosing a dealer counterparty, with 48% of buy-side leveraged loan trading volume allocated to dealers based on the execution quality.

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The TRADE

JUNE 11, 2024

Investment data management solutions provider FINBOURNE Technology has expanded its integration with Taskize to enhance post-trade operational efficiency. The development builds on top of the initial integration of Taskize into FINBOURNE’s LUSID platform in 2021.

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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. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

BlackRock has promoted from within for its new head of European credit trading, according to an update on social media. Dean Catton has been selected to take the helm for the asset manager’s European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business.

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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 26, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has moved to expand its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading, The TRADE can reveal. Tony Atkins Tony Atkins has been appointed UK head of sales trading. Alongside his appointment, Redburn Atlantic sales trader Luc Demoulin has been appointed EU head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 25, 2024

Ninety One trader Tom Nickalls is set to leave the asset manager after 11 years to join Morgan Stanley, The TRADE can reveal. After 11 years my time at Ninety One (and formerly Investec Asset Management) has come to an end. He was recognised as a Rising Star of Trading and Execution at Leaders in Trading in 2021.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

The TRADE’s Rising Stars Awards return for their ninth year, recognising the brightest up-and-coming talent across trading and execution for 2023. In partnership with Instinet, nominations are now open for candidates currently working in a trading role with a buy-side firm. Further details of the event can be found here.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux subsidiary Ellipsis Asset Management has moved to expand its capabilities in the convertible bond segment with the acquisition of Rothschild & Co’s business. As part of the deal two Rothschild portfolio managers – Cristina Jarrin and Mikael Dauvert – will move to Ellipsis AM.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. She will report directly to Marie Jacot, global head of distribution at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, and will be based between Frankfurt and Geneva.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Rikki Corbyn left State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following 11 and a half years with the firm, The TRADE learnt. He also previously served as managing director at both American Express Bank International and Deutsche Bank, Argentina. Before that, she co-founded Vicenda Asset Management in Zug, Switzerland.

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The TRADE

JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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The TRADE

MAY 14, 2024

Erste Asset Management, part of Erste Group Bank, has become the latest European client to join Clearwater Analytics’ buy-side community. The development will see Clearwater aggregate multi-asset client investment data, help increase asset flows and improve client service. “We

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The annual Leaders i n Trading gala is the most distinguished awards night for the trading community. Among the most coveted awards categories is the Editors’ Choice Awards and today we bring you the 2023 nominees for Outstanding Post-Trade Services Provider.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2024

Two former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and SIX Swiss Exchange sales specialists were selected to join US equites alternative trading system (ATS) OneChronos to support its push into Europe. Elsewhere, Sherlock most recently served in a European equity sales role since 2021.

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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.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has expanded its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Its role and the way it interacts with institutional investors differs region to region. Looking into this sector, which is set to experience highly anticipated, yet arguably unpredictable, growth – note the GameStop saga of 2021 – The TRADE deep dives into some of the key considerations.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

Prior to joining State Street in 2021, she previously served for more than 17 years at UBS across Zurich, London and Singapore and at Credit Suisse. Start-up hedge fund Jain Global appointed a former Credit Suisse vice president and electronic sales trader to join its ranks on the trading desk ahead of its launch.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Specialising in fixed income, specifically credit, Raymond has over two decades of trading experience under his belt.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

BlackRock promoted Dean Catton to take the helm for its European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business. Catton joined BlackRock in 2021 from Banco Santander where he had been a credit trader for four and a half years.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He joined after most recently spending two and a half years at BlackRock’s flagship Aladdin platform, serving as a managing director and leading its business development efforts across EMEA. Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instinet has launched smart order routing (SOR) capabilities to the South African markets on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and A2X, aimed at better connecting both local and international investors looking to trade in the region. A lot of the international global asset managers based in EMEA are more accustomed to smart order routing.

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The TRADE

MARCH 8, 2024

What has your journey to the trading desk involved? What drew you to trading? I graduated university in 2021 with a degree in modern languages and started on a graduate scheme that gave me a great overview of the various aspects of a trading role. What makes a successful multi-asset trader?

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The Deal

JUNE 22, 2023

Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to acquire waste services provider Coastal Waste & Recycling Inc. Industry trade publication Waste Dive first reported the transaction. A major infrastructure player, Macquarie Asset Management has invested more than $5 billion in waste management businesses in the Americas since 2007.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2023

The post Cboe outlines why its clearing service for securities financing transactions will succeed where others have failed appeared first on The TRADE. Subject to regulatory approvals the service is aiming to launch in September this year.

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The TRADE

JULY 21, 2023

Lit primary activity settled at 30% of average daily principal in Europe in both May and June for the first time, Liquidnet’s latest liquidity landscape report has found, highlighting a need to source liquidity from outside of intraday continuous trading. “As billion in Q1 to $3.83 In June it reached 25%, the highest since early 2019.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A There are no prescribed measures for any particular asset class at any given time. There’s no way around it.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

Several European exchanges are well underway with plans to bring out offerings of this ilk in the next few months The TRADE understands, while a handful of US alternative trading systems (ATS) are also preparing to make the crossing over to the Bloc to replicate the progress they have achieved in the US.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Example of Merchant Banking In 2021, merchant bank Avendus Capital helped the Indian company Piramal Enterprises acquire the debt-ridden assets of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) for ₹34,250 crore ($4.4 In addition, they can provide valuable services such as portfolio management, asset management, and advisory services.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic trading platforms captured almost a third (32%) of overall Canadian equity trading volume in 2023, with this share expected to rise in the next three years, a new report by Coalition Greenwich has found. As a result, electronic and/or algorithmic trading has seen usage increase.

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The TRADE

JULY 6, 2023

Speaking to the key considerations for the European buy-side community, Susan Yavari, regulatory policy advisor – capital markets at European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) highlighted that identifying potential pain points is the overarching focus.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Growth Imperative for Field Service Management Software As demand for these solutions surges, FSM Software companies are navigating a highly competitive landscape. Consider these notable examples: Salesforce’s Acquisition of ClickSoftware for $1.35

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The TRADE

APRIL 30, 2024

New rules have impacted almost every financial firm, ranging from banks to asset managers. The importance of these rules can be linked to the reshaping of the regulatory environment and ultimately creating a more robust trading environment and promoting investor confidence.

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