The TRADE

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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The TRADE

MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London. Paul Battams was named head of international equity trading at BlackRock following 23 years with the firm.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2024

Over half (54%) of buy-side respondents say that getting proper coverage from their brokers is one of their biggest pain points in their daily equity trading workflow, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. Nearly half (47%) cited operations, middle- and back-office and settlement issues as another key pain point.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

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. Waters has previously held senior positions at AllianceBernstein (AB), most recently as an equity trader based in Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

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. Prior to that, Dolcezza served as an equity dealer for nearly two years.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The three incoming professionals are London-based and hold long track records of success and leadership across global equities trading. 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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The TRADE

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. More recently though, RLAM’s trading team has undergone another revamp.

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The TRADE

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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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

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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The TRADE

AUGUST 31, 2023

Non-profit member organisation for the equity marketplace, Plato Partnership, has added Liquidnet as an inaugural strategic partner. As a strategic partner, Liquidnet will participate in three of Plato’s core initiatives including Plato Strategic Initiatives Group, which aims to identify issues and areas to bolster equity market structure.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. Equity Research vs. Fixed Income Research Common Myths What Do You Do as a Fixed Income Research Analyst or Associate? Also, it can be quantitative or fundamental – or both! –

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2024

Elsewhere, Sherlock most recently served in a European equity sales role since 2021. 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. Prior to that, Hall held the same role, based out of London.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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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. 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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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. McCartney heads up the EMEA fundamental equity trading team, having made the shift from the London Stock Exchange to the front-office earlier in her career.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

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. Bernstein, also working as an equity trader.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As equity traders continue to seek ever more innovative ways to bolster their offerings, the rise of Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) has followed – currently executing around 16% of all US equity volume. The post US market increasingly ready to embrace Alternative Trading Systems appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

State Street’s asset management business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) named Dublin-based Ann Prendergast head of EMEA. Cantor Fitzgerald’s head of equities for Asia, Hani Shalabi, has left the firm to join emerging markets investment bank Arqaam as its new head of equities execution services.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Griffin originally joined Kepler in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022. Before that, he served as vice president and relationship manager for JP Morgan’s priority asset manager clients.

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The TRADE

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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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Beginning her career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as director and head of portfolio sales trading in 1997, she later went on to spend six years at JP Morgan, initially as an executive director and head of execution sales responsible for electronic and portfolio trading and ETFs. He is also responsible for Liquidnet’s equity product strategy.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There will be a focus on reliable and proven data sets that both optimise returns while reducing risk, and that are applicable to portfolios across many asset types and multiple geographies. You will also continue to see a push to modernise the loan market, whether through digitised loan data or electronic trading.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in a risk management and product control role. Bloomberg appointed Colin Williams in an electronic trading and analytics solutions role. Williams joined from BNY Mellon, where he spent the last six years, most recently serving as an equity trader.

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The TRADE

MAY 24, 2024

Brexit clearly did not help, nor help the perception of UK equities. We have seen a stabilisation of money flows in recent months, global funds are returning to the UK, while we continue to see outflows (mostly to US) of domestic asset managers. We are currently developing our own differentiated electronic product.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As the use of data increases, we also see increased demand for data networks supporting multiple asset classes. Tradefeedr’s initial focus was FX, and in response to client requests we will launch equities and futures in 2024.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In A novel concept to greener traders.

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