The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Former head of market structure and liquidity solutions at broker dealer Kepler Cheuvreux Byron Griffin is set to join Franco-German financial services firm ODDO BHF. Before that, he served as vice president and relationship manager for JP Morgan’s priority asset manager clients.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In recent years, this technique has captivated large financial services players given its potential to help drive down labor costs, reduce human errors and improve the customer experience. The traditional RPA approach used by large financial services players usually doesn’t easily work in institutional investing.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

Cheung was previously a strategic account manager at Enfusion, focused on APAC-based hedge funds, family offices and asset management firms. In his new role, Hoong will provide technical account management and support to clients in Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shortlisted individuals are repeated contributors to discussion whether that be through panels, associations or schemes to support the next generation joining the financial services industry. He began his career at the UK’s HM Treasury, before moving to AIG Investments to manage fixed income funds.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust. Elsewhere in his career, Williams held a pricing analyst role at Financial Times and a junior business development role at Deloitte.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The immediate focus for the business is set to be investing in client service and portfolio management, specifically hiring in senior sales and distribution team members focused on Europe and the UK, as well as investment managers for both the luxury brands and credit opportunities strategies.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

More than 200 asset managers, hedge funds and other users of outsourced trading providers voiced their opinions in this first-of-its-kind piece of research. The post Around two-thirds of buy-siders believe outsourced desks could enhance trade performance in cross-border trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

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The Deal

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Though business development companies are performing well in 2023 relative to the prior two years, mergers among companies with shared managers that help reduce costs amid historic underperformance are still on the table. Over the past few years, large asset managers such as BlackRock Inc.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The service provider landscape for outsourced trading is made up of an eclectic mix of firms. Boutique independents and the largest financial services providers co-exist in this burgeoning space which has some elements of comradery and others of fierce rivalry. The list goes on.

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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 Can you imagine an asset manager increasing the management fee for an ETF? There’s no way around it.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This has forced prime brokers to focus more on risk management and diversification of their client portfolios with increased regulatory pressures.” The market volatility has certainly been a defining feature of the year, for both clients and providers, and gave rise to opportunities for certain strategies, while costing others dearly.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“If you look at what those firms need in terms of prime-related services, well, cash PB and synthetics are just the basics. When you go through these really volatile periods of time, if the multi-managers that are really well diversified do come out stronger than monoline hedge funds, then there is an argument for investors. “At

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Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Top Strategic Buyers Investing in SaaS Valsoft Corporation Valsoft is a holding company for a diverse portfolio of software and related technology services and currently employs 2,000 employees. The software provides features for access control, asset management, eLearning, and predictive analysis.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

One of the greatest revelations across the financial services sector (and beyond) was that mantra of ‘we don’t have to do things the way we used to’ as office hours turned to hybrid work-from-home setups and video conferencing and instant messaging became the norm.

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