The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Effective from 1 September, Salcedo will be based in New York, reporting to Dan Murphy, Americas head of franchise sales. MEAG appointed Lydia Malakis head of institutional sales at MEAG.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Umair Khan Marwat has joined Millennium as a trader, following almost two and a half years at Balyasny Asset Management. Hong Kong-based Marwat previously worked at Credit Suisse, focused on AES, algorithmic, and direct market access (DMA) trading, before joining Balyasny Asset Management in 2021 as a trader.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

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, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Also appointed to the low touch sales and trading team at RBC is Suzanne Webster, who joined as a multi-asset director.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Umair Khan Marwat joined Millennium as a trader, following almost two and a half years at Balyasny Asset Management. Hong Kong-based Marwat previously worked at Credit Suisse, focused on AES, algorithmic, and direct market access (DMA) trading, before joining Balyasny Asset Management in 2021 as a trader.

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The TRADE

MARCH 22, 2024

HSBC has appointed Matthew Stanton as managing director, head of equities sales trading for Americas. Stanton joins HSBC from Primary Portal, where he served as a sales consultant. Prior to that, he spent just over seven years at Barclays, most recently serving as managing director, head of cash sales trading, Americas.

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The TRADE

JUNE 6, 2023

Aviva Investors, Aviva’s global asset management business, has appointed Monica Fan-Bradley as head of institutional sales (excluding Asia Pacific) within its global client solutions function. She also serves as a member of eVestment’s asset manager board and the advisory council of The Diversity Project UK.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2023

Pictet Asset Management has appointed Jade Beckmann as an equity trader, The TRADE can reveal Beckmann joins Pictet Asset Management from Bloomberg, where she most recently served as a professional services sales account manager. Beckmann announced her appointment in a social media post.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nasdaq European Markets selected Matteo Balladori, former head of European business development at Citadel Securities, to join the venue as a senior sales director, The TRADE revealed. He joined Nasdaq European Markets in its European equities sales team based in London after nearly six years at Citadel Securities.

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

A DWS Group senior equity trader has departed for pastures new after over 16 years at the asset manager, The TRADE can reveal. Alex Cotar has left the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank to join Bankhaus Metzler as an equity sales trader, according to an update on social media.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has moved to expand its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading, The TRADE can reveal. Tony Atkins Tony Atkins has been appointed UK head of sales trading. Tony and Luc embody all of the qualities that you look for in a head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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The TRADE

JULY 5, 2024

Milan-based O’Connor joins following almost 15 years at ACCIONA Group’s Spanish asset manager, BESTINVER. He most recently served as e quity sales trader, leveraging key knowledge of the Italian, Swiss, US and UK markets. The post BESTINVER sales trader joins MIT SIM appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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. His new role is not yet public but will be communicated in due course.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Oaktree Capital Management has agreed to acquire Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) – the wealth management arm of Close Brothers – for an equity value of up to £200 million, set to be completed in early 2025 pending customary regulatory approvals.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Liquidnet has appointed Amanda Lee Volk as trade coverage/execution consultant for its New York desk. Volk brings 18 years’ experience to the role from Nomura, with particular expertise in the ATS block and algo trading space.

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The TRADE

MAY 15, 2024

BNY Mellon has today announced the integration of Global Markets Trading (GMT), which will combine the firm’s capabilities in foreign exchange, fixed income, equities and capital markets to provide full-service client provisions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlists for the Leaders in Trading 2024 Buy-Side Awards, in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange. The winners of each category will be revealed at The TRADE’s annual Leaders in Trading glittering awards night at The Savoy in London on 7 November. The wait is over.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic trading platforms captured almost a third (32%) of overall Canadian equity trading volume in 2023, with this share expected to rise in the next three years, a new report by Coalition Greenwich has found. As a result, electronic and/or algorithmic trading has seen usage increase.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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.  It could be said that Europe was slow to adopt our version of supplemental trading.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 23, 2024

FX analytics provider Tradefeedr and execution management system FactSet Portware have integrated their offerings to expand FX trading data and analytics. Our clients are increasingly demanding advanced FX analytics, to inform their decisions and improve trading outcomes,” said John Marchese, VP head of FX EMS sales at FactSet.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ronan McMahon has been appointed algorithmic sales trader at CLSA, following his departure from Morgan Stanley back in May. Earlier this year, trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As asset managers continue to look for ways to fully capitalise on data, a new SIX report has found that almost half view data velocity as the key challenge in enabling analytics to drive growth. This focus on front-office was further shown by 46% of respondents highlighting ‘sales and distribution’.

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Stephen Wilkes, the head of buy-side solutions sales and head of securities services at Deutsche Bank, will be departing his role after spending almost 13 years at the bank. For nearly five years, Wilkes served as the head of buy-side solutions sales and head of securities services sales in the EMEA region.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. As part of the new role, Wiedmann will drive forward sales activities for institutional clients and distributors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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The TRADE

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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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

JULY 5, 2023

AllianceBernstein (AB) has expanded its presence in the Middle East with a new office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), becoming the latest in a string of global asset management firms to set up shop in the region. He will work alongside Eduard van Nes, head of intermediary sales for Middle East and Africa.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

The bank also highlighted that lower than average transactional volumes had contributed to lower asset management and brokerage fees. Sales and trading revenues increased by 3% to $4.3 Sales and trading revenues increased by 3% to $4.3 Overall, the bank’s total revenue was up 11% from Q2 2022 at $25.2

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Eric Heleine, head of the buy-side trading desk at Groupama Asset Management, is set to step away from the firm before the end of the year, as revealed by The TRADE. Citi has expanded its FX markets team in Asia with the appointment of two new individuals, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2023. The winner will be decided by a live industry vote at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading gala awards night on 8 November. Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted nominees!

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Rikki Corbyn left State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following 11 and a half years with the firm, The TRADE learnt. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management appointed Regine Wiedmann as head of distribution for the DACH region. Before that, she co-founded Vicenda Asset Management in Zug, Switzerland.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Marex has become a trading and clearing member of Singapore Exchange Group (SGX), which will allow the firm to offer direct trading and clearing services to clients across SGX. Marex’s clearing business offers infrastructure services to a range of clients including banks, hedge funds, asset managers, corporates and trading groups.

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