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JANUARY 23, 2024

His appointment comes as GTN continues its expansion efforts to build a comprehensive electronic trading and investment platform. GTN serves brokers, banks, asset managers, and fintech clients. He brought with him more than 25 years’ experience in cross-asset trading for both institutional and retail clients.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan Tse was appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS last month, following a move over from Credit Suisse. Elsewhere, RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team.

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MARCH 5, 2024

When it comes to selecting an algo provider, ease of system use, reliability and quality of technical support was the top consideration for asset managers across both sides of the Channel in 2023 – 71% in the UK and 73% in Continental Europe – according to a Coalition Greenwich report.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Acadian Asset Management has appointed Jian Du as vice president, senior trader in its Sydney office. Du joins the asset manager from Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as executive director of electronic trading, also based in Sydney.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BlackRock’s head of electronic trading and market structure for EMEA, Daniel Mayston, has left the asset management giant, The TRADE can reveal. He took on the role of global head of trading research in 2013 before assuming his most recent and current role as electronic trading and market structure head for EMEA in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

RBC has appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team, The TRADE can reveal. James Hilton has been appointed multi-asset managing director in RBC’s low touch team, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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JULY 17, 2024

Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) trading team is no stranger to change. The London-based asset manager has undergone not one but three makeovers in recent years as it continues to evolve with the demands of the street. Instead, they favour electronic methods to find mid-point block liquidity.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Asset managers have tapped fixed income, equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs) for their greatest market data spend over the next 12 months, according to a new Coalition Greenwich and SIX report published on 22 August. This has increased the amount of data needed for participants to execute.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Acadian Asset Management appointed Jian Du vice president, senior trader in its Sydney office. Du joined the asset manager from Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as executive director of electronic trading, also based in Sydney. Elsewhere in his tenure at Dimensional, he served as an analyst.

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JULY 26, 2024

Robert Whelan has joined Citadel as equity trader following almost eight years at Pictet Asset Management. Prior to that, he worked at Morgan Stanley, initially joining as an electronic trading associate before going on to a role as equity sales trader. Whelan joined Pictet AM as an equity trader back in 2016.

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MAY 2, 2024

Appital Insights is now fully integrated with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS), enabling the latter’s asset management clients to access Appital Insights liquidity easily within their EMS. They know that Appital Insights does not impact ‘on-screen’ prices and they retain full control of the order.”

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APRIL 29, 2024

Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, at Liberum are set to join Investec in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk. Lowres joins Investec as head of electronic trading and execution strategy after almost 17 years with Liberum.

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JUNE 13, 2023

According to our internal research, ETFs had over $200 billion of inflows globally, the third highest total on record, bringing the total ETF market to approximately $10 trillion,” said John Plansky, head of State Street Alpha. “By

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Both the FX trading offering, and TCA offering provide data-driven insights for both asset managers and corporate treasurers.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Groupama Asset Management is set to expand its use of Virtu’s Triton Valor EMS to another asset class, now encompassing fixed income trading. It’s the key to success if we want to enhance the FICC market structure which has largely stayed the same for the last 50 years,” said Heleine.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Hepsworth was appointed to the desk at the London-headquartered asset manager after spending the last four and a half years at MarketAxess in a facilitation trading role. UBS has chosen Aleksandar Ivanovic to succeed Suni Harford as president of asset management upon her departure, with the appointment effective from 1 March.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Euronext Group’s fixed income electronic trading platform MTS has appointed Nick Sollom as head of business development and strategy. He began his career at Fidelity Institutional Asset Management in 1998, managing institutional client relationships.

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JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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JULY 19, 2024

What is driving the purported ‘comeback’ of traditional asset managers? This alone was enough to make institutional asset managers wary of making moves. However, macroeconomic uncertainty, particularly due to historic inflationary pressures and rising yields, kept traditional asset managers cautious.

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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. Jonathan Tse has been appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS, as he moves over from Credit Suisse. He will report to Blatch.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. RBC BlueBay Asset Management equity trader, Michael Tamou, left the asset manager to join Qube Research & Technologies (QRT).

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MARCH 11, 2024

Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading. He will now manage the entire desk, made up of 14 traders, having previously managed a team of six. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Coalition Greenwich did, however, note that this is a frequent area of concern among asset managers, spanning the entire asset class spectrum. Nearly half (47%) cited operations, middle- and back-office and settlement issues as another key pain point.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Kirk is set to oversee and enhance Tourmaline’s services in support of asset managers globally as part of his new role, leveraging his experience running programme and electronic/high-touch hybrid trading desks.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The addition of Liquidnet follows Kepler Cheuvreux, UBS Asset Management and Pictet Asset Management being named as founding members of Plato Partnerhsip late last year. The post Plato Partnership admits Liquidnet as strategic partner appeared first on The TRADE.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Read more: LedgerEdge closes three years after launch “As many of you know, Brian is a proven multi-asset trader and trading technologist with valuable asset management and capital markets experience,” said Stephen Berte, president at BIDS Trading, in a social media post.

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JULY 31, 2023

HSBC Global Asset Management has named Aaron Waters head of European equity trading, following three and a half years as head of equity trading at the bank, The TRADE can reveal. In this new role Waters will head up a desk made up of traders located across Paris and the UK.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bookbuilding platform Appital has launched a new initiative to unlock liquidity unavailable through traditional electronic trading venues. Traders and portfolio managers will also be able to access exposure to liquidity events in relevant equities meeting their minimum ADC or pricing thresholds.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Fixed income trading venue and data provider MarketAxess has expanded its integration with the Investortool platform for its municipal bond activity From now, MarketAxess’ offerings will be displayed on the Investortools Dealer Network (IDN) as it seeks to expand its electronic municipal trading.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Eric Heliene, head of buy-side trading desk, Groupama Asset Management In the buy-side trading world, technological innovation is a perpetual driver of transformation, and large language models (LLMs) are emerging as key players in this ongoing evolution. We’re also looking at the technology’s capabilities in liquidity predictions.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Greg Finke joined the boutique asset manager after just over a year at Rothschild & Co as a senior investment dealer covering equities. Prior to joining Rothschild in January 2023, Finke spent nearly five years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity trader covering equities and FX.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Elsewhere in her career, Sueng – one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars in 2019 – worked in fixed income sales at both Tullet Prebon and Newedge as well as previously serving in fixed income performance analyst roles at Amundi and Societe Generale Asset Management.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Start-up hedge fund Jain Global appointed a former Credit Suisse vice president and electronic sales trader to join its ranks on the trading desk ahead of its launch. Prior to joining State Street in 2021, she previously served for more than 17 years at UBS across Zurich, London and Singapore and at Credit Suisse.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

You will also continue to see a push to modernise the loan market, whether through digitised loan data or electronic trading. As firms continue to diversify into this high-yield asset class, there will be a desire to create efficiencies and automate paper-based, manual market processes.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Major asset managers, ourselves included, have traditionally favoured partnerships with banks known for their research and presence in a particular region. Recent trends highlight an increasing demand from asset managers, fast money, and quant funds, expediting the transition toward electronification in NDF markets.

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