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LiquidityBook acquires Messer to boost multi-asset capabilities

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LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. With regard to our buy-side clients, and especially newer or smaller funds, time and again we hear their need to shadow their fund admins or manage their own books and records.

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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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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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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 If you want top talent you need to invest to keep them on the platform. Finding traders is the easier part.

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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.

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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. On our last business day, that multiplies by 10 taking it to 5,000 but with the same amount of people.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

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So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” There’s been a consolidation of where the assets are in the marketplace, and the biggest of the funds have gotten bigger. “We They need a financing platform to support all of that. We’ll probably continue to see that trend.”

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