The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Dominic Rieb-Smith, managing director, international head, prime services sales, JP Morgan, refers to the past year as “a standout”. Data from Convergence tracking the top 25 prime brokers showed their market share grew from 83.3% in April 2023, to 92% in 2024.

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The TRADE

MARCH 8, 2024

The opportunity to learn how to trade nearly every asset class so early on in my career was something that really appealed. It has helped give me a great overview of how different asset classes react to economic changes and world events, which I’m sure will help me in my future career. Versatility and prioritisation are key.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. Having a cohesive team globally has proved an increasingly essential tool for institutions in light of the ongoing globalisation of finance and the turbulence caused by market events in the last few years.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What are the key drivers behind asset managers’ move towards multi-asset trading and what benefit can this provide? Stephane Marie-Francoise Marie-Francoise: Everything starts with the desire from the investment team to develop a multi-asset class strategy offering. The impact can obviously vary depending on the context.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve always worked in the asset management industry, starting my first job at 18 with Scottish Amicable Investment Management in Glasgow. From the banking team at Scot Asset Management, I moved firms in 1999 to take up a role in trade settlements. What has your journey to the trading desk been like?

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The TRADE

JANUARY 31, 2024

The BlackRock EMEA equity trading team picked up The TRADE’s highly coveted Trading Desk of the Year, Long-Only award at the Leaders in Trading 2023 event in November. In addition to trading, Geekie also facilitates business-wide ‘action groups’ aimed at monitoring developments of, and providing intelligence on, key market events.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Papanichola began his career at interdealer broker, GFI, however quickly realised the environment wasn’t the one for him. However, in the event of his absence, it has various back up models in place including cover from within the firm and outsourced trading firm, Williams Trading, on standby. We use a variety of high and low touch.

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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.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Following the height of Covid, we’ve had the memestock saga, the collapse of Archegos Capital and the war in Ukraine impacting the space in concurrent years as unprecedented events seem to have become the norm, driving market volatility in each of the post-pandemic years. These forces have rumbled markets and led to heightened volatility.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Azizi added: “The main thing with retail is event-driven trading. Nothing else […] The main outcome here is event-driven trading as opposed to systematic trading or strategy trading or time-weighted trading.” Panellists discussed whether safeguarding against these events going forward is a focus for institutional investors.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

Eric Heliene, head of buy-side trading desk, Groupama Asset Management  The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem. The planned transition to T+1 settlement in 2024 and the forthcoming revision of Mifid II are poignant examples of this.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the current state with T+2 you have 48 hours to execute a security trade, match that trade with brokers, execute the FX and get everything settled. Jumping ahead in time, covid-19 was another external factor which put a lot of pressure on asset managers in terms of how and where work was being done.

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The TRADE

APRIL 30, 2024

New rules have impacted almost every financial firm, ranging from banks to asset managers. Shorter settlement cycles are expected to enhance market efficiency and stability by reducing the likelihood of default or disruption in the event of market volatility or counterparty failure.

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The TRADE

MARCH 31, 2025

The event follows Leaders in Trading, held at The Savoy in London – The TRADEs annual sell-out showstopper event. The evening not only offers the opportunity to network with some of the biggest names in the industry but also celebrate the industrys achievements throughout the year.

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The TRADE

MARCH 31, 2025

Specifically, the service utilises BNY and JP Morgan as tri-party collateral agents, with Pirum serving as the transmitter of new trade instructions and post-trade lifecycle events for clients. Move comes as Cboe seeks to make the trading of SFTs more capital efficient, especially as regards risk-weighted assets.

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