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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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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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TradeTech FX Europe 2023: FX swaps algorithms not currently a priority for buy and sell-side due to workflow preferences

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“The electronification of pricing in swaps has been around for 25 years, the second wave of electronification came around risk management and the third wave is now focused on electronic hedging,” said Simon Jones, chief growth officer at 360T. The world owns more US assets than the US owns the rest of the world.

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Liquidnet to imminently roll out derivatives predicted volume curve and suite price analytics

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“The pre trade analytics are a very useful means by which clients can assess the quality of a block price,” the global head of listed derivatives at Liquidnet, Mike du Plessis, tells The TRADE. “They can choose not to trade on block and actually aggress the order book directly if that seems to be a better option at the point of trade.

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SSGA’s Sharon Ruffles on fixed income trading: It’s a different job every day

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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 A novel concept to greener traders.

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NDFs trading: If you build platforms, the algos will follow

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Recent trends highlight an increasing demand from asset managers, fast money, and quant funds, expediting the transition toward electronification in NDF markets,” says Patil. “As There isn’t that much liquidity so trying to trade it electronically over a platform is not as easy. You can move markets quite quickly.

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Trading at the frontier

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She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

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Finding fixed income After spending three months as a trading assistant intern at PPM America, Raymond landed his first permanent buy-side position, joining UBS Asset Management as an operations assistant in 2003. Helming the US business of one of the largest asset managers in the world through such a course is no mean feat.