The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. He will also be involved in the ongoing management of the Titan Hybrid Capital, Core Credit, and Short Duration IG income funds.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ryan O’Connor has left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ryan O’Connor left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Some 83% of asset managers plan to change product strategy in the next two years, a new survey from Northern Trust has found, emphasising the need to cater to diverse investor needs. Technology appears to be at the heart of that change, with 77% planning to leverage new tech within the same timeframe.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The service also supports key regulatory initiatives including EMIR, CSDR and the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), with the aim to help promote transparency, market integrity and the competitiveness of European capital markets. “We However, the group now believes it has the correct recipe for success. “We

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you think the cost of doing business is rising, here’s another element to consider. Only this one does not come about by market forces, but rather by menaces in the netherworld. The genesis is the online environment – that powerful capability at our fingertips we depend on for so many facets of our business and everyday lives.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Previously in his career, Paparella ran the institutional structured products Latin America desk for RBC Capital Markets. 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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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

What do medium to big-sized businesses have? Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Marex to acquire Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business from TD At number ten was a story broken by The TRADE in September, news that Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business had been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. He will report to Blatch.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. I oversee the capital markets function and I assist in origination. Our public positions and investments have originated through a rigorous capital markets process. There’s been a reopening in capital markets.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 28, 2023

Northern Trust promoted Dane Fannin as its new head of global foreign exchange (GFX)and securities finance within its capital markets business. In his new role, Fannin will be responsible for innovation and business growth across Northern Trust’s suite of GFX and securities finance solutions.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But what does the persistent evolution of AI mean for capital markets specifically? Speaking to The TRADE, Timothee Consigny, chief technology officer at H2O Asset Management, asserts that there is a definite place for artificial intelligence within capital markets and the time for adoption is now. “[Gen-AI]

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The TRADE

MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 28, 2023

UBS shakes up execution services management team structure People moves are always one of our biggest draws in readership, and in October, UBS’ plans to make changes within its execution services business , specifically the electronic trading area, became one of most read stories of the year.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). He originally joined the asset manager as an investment operations analyst in 2020. Throughout his career Jenkins has also worked at SWIFT, Macgregor, and AXA Investment Managers.

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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. 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. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

RBC Capital Markets appointed Giles Gleave and Mike Heraty as its newest managing directors, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He has been appointed senior trader at Norges Bank Investment Management, based in New York.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives) and chief product officer for capital markets at fintech firm Broadridge announced his departure after more than four years with the business. He began his career as a fixed income support analyst at JP Morgan.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), The TRADE can reveal. He will join the exchange group as head of secondary markets sales and business development in January 2024, sources have confirmed.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Deutsche Bank has re-entered the local DCM in South Korea as it expands its investment banking capabilities in the region in a bid to support its local clients in accessing global debt capital markets. It also provides asset management services to its South Korean clients through Deutsche Bank subsidiary, DWS.

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The TRADE

JULY 25, 2023

According to an update on his social media, Taitz joins buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business. During his time with the asset manager Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is the application of robotics technology to manipulate existing application software which completes a business process. Business-led, integrated approach. Not only could it help manage cost pressures, it could also help reduce errors, improve compliance, and simplify overall business complexity.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Asset manager Ninety One promoted from within for its new deputy global head of trading and head of trading for South Africa. He takes up the role after 26 years at the business. Simmons previously held positions at Charles Stanley & Co. and Lloyds Banking Group, before joining J O Hambro in 2018. He will report to Blatch.

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The TRADE

APRIL 8, 2024

He joined Cowen as managing director for fixed income outsourcing in February 2022, transitioning to commodities specialist Marex as part of the sale of Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business at the end of last year. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business. During his time with the asset manager, Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“One of the key reasons Singapore is an attractive market is it’s pretty well positioned, as it shares the same time zone as Hong Kong,” Gerard Walsh, global head of capital markets client solutions at Northern Trust, told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to an update on his social media, Federico Grasso has joined BlackRock’s Aladdin as vice president in engineering solutions after spending the last year at FlexTrade, in a pre-sales role for its buy-side order management system business, FlexONE. Previously he also served across ANIMA Asset Management and Mediobanca.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He will join the exchange group as head of secondary markets sales and business development in January 2024, sources have confirmed. Previously in his career, he spent almost a decade at the asset manager in an equity trading role until 2006 and later spent nearly four years at SEB.

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The TRADE

APRIL 15, 2024

We fully integrated our financing and securitisation capabilities within our markets business and we started to see the benefits of having a unified spread product offering for our clients,” said Citigroup managing director Jane Fraser speaking in the Q1 earnings call. Jefferies Jefferies’ results saw a net revenue of $1.74

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

“The strengthening of Abu Dhabi’s dynamic capital market will serve to support the long-term sustainable growth of the UAE economy and the exchange will continue to explore partnerships that support both regional and global connectivity as well as a deeper and more liquid market.”

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Changes to UK trade reporting requirements will provide a clearer insight into how much business is done away from the public markets, which may court some regulatory attention. Despite the ongoing uncertainty for participants, 2024 promises to be another eventful year for Pan-European market structure.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. As a result, LiquidityBook’s LBX suite has become a full-featured Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System (POEMS) with an embedded FIX network.

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Accenture Capital Markets

JANUARY 22, 2024

As world leaders gathered in Dubai for the COP28 summit last month, the battle against climate change has returned to the top of the public, political and business agendas. Investor appetite for such investments is rapidly increasing, as banks, asset managers and large corporates all seek ways to invest in sustainability.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The pandemic marked a seminal moment across the capital markets, effectively drawing a line between the old world and the new. And soon, it may no longer be just a service that applies to smaller fund managers. Many noted how they were using the service for supplemental overflow and as part of their business continuity plans.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

New entrants are pouring into this space as demand increases exponentially with each passing year, and there’s certainly enough business to go around at present. Can everyone keep up with the increasing multi-asset and geographic demands? Could this sticky business start seeing clients switch providers, or even insource?

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The Deal

JULY 18, 2023

Firms have lowered hold sizes and increased loan prices as they lean toward smaller transactions, team up with other lenders on deals, shy away from unfunded debt and turn up scrutiny on business performance. billion for West Street Mezzanine Partners VIII. West Street VII closed with $13 billion in 2017.

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