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Major investment banks and asset managers partake in landmark blockchain pilot

The TRADE

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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Trade associations emphasise need for credit ratings to bolster EU corporate bond transparency regime

The TRADE

Particularly, as overly prompt dissemination of trade information could lead to a negative impact on market liquidity. The associations noted that distinguishing between investment grade (IG) and high-yield (HY) corporate bonds is a key component to tap into greater transparency in more liquid bonds, while ensuring protection for those bonds.

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People Moves Monday: Union Investment, LCH Group, Instinet and more…

The TRADE

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. Poilvet-Clédière brings over 15 years’ experience in financial markets to the role.

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Plato Partnership admits Liquidnet as strategic partner

The TRADE

Liquidnet brings knowledge and experience in capital markets to the Partnership and will play a crucial role in shaping and informing Plato’s initiatives within capital markets, the organisation said.

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An old story in modern times. Duncan Mavin's pretty darn good book on Greensill

Bronte Capital

One of the stories of the financial crisis is that the bankers that ran big institutions, who had billions entrusted to them, and who projected the air of masters of the universe were in fact buffoons incompetent at anything other than organising their own bonus. Financial innovation is often bad credit made to look good.

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Tourmaline undergoes hiring surge as part of European expansion

The TRADE

Outsourced trading solutions firm, Tourmaline Partners, has hired three new seasoned financial markets executives as managing directors to help strengthen its global trading capabilities, The TRADE can reveal. Bradley was most recently a partner at Mariana Capital and prior to that was head of CSC equity options at GFI Group.

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Enhanced third party data for optimised execution

The TRADE

Auto execution RFQ trading is one solution to ensure speed of execution in stressed market conditions with the benefit of better serving the clients while meeting compliance requirements to ensure high quality of execution. Innovation across the whole financial market is a matter of fact with its impact perceived across asset classes.

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