The TRADE

JUNE 3, 2024

FactSet has partnered with Wall Street’s first consolidated corporate bond quote system BondCliQ, to make its corporate bond pre-trade data available to FactSet users. The post FactSet to offer BondCliQ corporate bond pre-trade data appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of a major scheme from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the region as a global FX trading hub, several large banks over the last few years agreed to develop FX pricing and trading engines in Singapore, in partnership with MAS.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2024

GIX submitted its Form 1 application on 9 May 2023, outlining plans to operate a fully automated electronic trading platform for the trading of listed equities – no physical trading floor is planned. Discussing the aims of GIX, Labovitz tells The TRADE that it comes down to addressing all aspects of an exchange’s offering.

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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

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. She began her career as an analyst at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in 2002.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

Eric Heliene, head of buy-side trading desk, Groupama Asset Management  The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem.  While the EU has agreed to a real-time pre- and post-trade consolidated tape (CT) for equities – the devil will be in the detail.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

First up in our introduction to the distinguished nominees for Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards, we bring you the shortlist for Outstanding Exchange Group – one of The TRADE’s highly coveted and legacy awards for the exchange community.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Next up in our Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards write up series, we bring you the shortlisted candidates for Best Innovation at the Close, recognising those venues going above and beyond to support participants when trading at the Close. Upwards of 30% of volumes now take place in the Closing Auction in Europe.

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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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Next up in our introduction to the distinguished nominees for Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards, we bring you the shortlist for the Outstanding Market Data Provider category, shining a light on those displaying recent excellence in the data sphere.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) have not always gone hand in hand with algorithmic trading, but in light of recent market developments, this could be about to change. The instruments have been pegged by the buy-side as the next frontier when it comes to algorithmic trading efforts in the foreign exchange (FX) markets.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grasso joined FlexTrade last year after three and a half years at Bloomberg, also with a buy-side OMS focus, most recently serving as an account manager for its AIM solution. Previously he also served across ANIMA Asset Management and Mediobanca.

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The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

According to Nasdaq, it will make it possible for investors to gain exposure in the Swedish small cap market and simplify investment strategies through consolidating a diversified portfolio of small cap stocks into a single instrument. The post Nasdaq unveils new Swedish small cap index future offering appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2024

Two former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and SIX Swiss Exchange sales specialists were selected to join US equites alternative trading system (ATS) OneChronos to support its push into Europe. Federated Hermes selected Imogen Hepsworth to join its trading desk as a junior credit trader.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 29, 2023

September’s announcement marked the filing of a new NMS plan “to replace the three existing national market system plans which govern the public dissemination of real-time, consolidated equity market data for national market system stocks”. Two further roles were created to support Adams within the asset management leadership team.

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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. And that is exactly what the London-based trading team embodies. Every day is different, and markets are evolving at a phenomenal pace.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will launch its highly anticipated settlement acceleration platform for Stock Connect on Monday 9 October. billion) in the first half of 2023, up 5% from a year earlier, and a 50% increase from 2020 levels. Average daily turnover of Northbound Stock Connect totalled RMB109.3

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Marex to acquire Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business from TD At number ten was a story broken by The TRADE in September, news that Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business had been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. He will report to Blatch.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 3, 2024

BestEx Research has launched a new functionality for execution algorithms for stocks and futures – named Order Aggregation – aimed at increasing efficiency when managing multiple orders. Through this approach, high execution speeds are reduced, liquidity seeking is optimised, and trading costs are lowered.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has expanded its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management.

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The TRADE

JUNE 8, 2023

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will suspend its Investor Kinetics data service on 31 July, following ongoing concerns from clients and industry participants about information leakage from the service, The TRADE can reveal.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), The TRADE can reveal. The change marks a move away from the buy-side for Worrell who has an extensive equity trading career.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Toronto-based stock exchange TMX Group has agreed to acquire the remaining 78% of the common units of index and data provider, VettaFi Holdings, for $848 million. It also offers asset managers a range of indexing and digital distribution solutions to scale their businesses.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 19, 2023

And if you are interested in this strategy, should you even target hedge funds, or would a long-only asset management firm be better? Long-Only with Derivatives to Hedge Risk – For example, a fund might only buy stocks, but it could use put options or other derivatives to hedge its risk and justify the fees.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Its role and the way it interacts with institutional investors differs region to region. Looking into this sector, which is set to experience highly anticipated, yet arguably unpredictable, growth – note the GameStop saga of 2021 – The TRADE deep dives into some of the key considerations.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

What has your journey to the trading desk been like? 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.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Specialising in fixed income, specifically credit, Raymond has over two decades of trading experience under his belt.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2024

One prominent asset manager stated in the conversation that it still has a war room in place because “we’re now into an index rebalancing cycle, with Russell coming up it will be the highest volume of trading activity on the street – it is every single year – on 28 June.”.

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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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Razorpay

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For mutual fund and stock brokerage businesses, the need for robust fraud prevention strategies has never been more critical. In this blog, we will explore essential best practices that can help merchants safeguard their clients’ investments and ensure a secure trading environment. 10 Best Practices to Safeguard Against Fraud 1.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instinet has launched smart order routing (SOR) capabilities to the South African markets on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and A2X, aimed at better connecting both local and international investors looking to trade in the region. The new capability is based off Instinet’s proprietary technology and went live in mid-October.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 8, 2023

But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title. We should also step back and define “commodities” and “commodity trading” since they’re massive areas.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Speaking to The TRADE Annelotte De Nanassy , senior product manager, financial information at SIX, explained: “SIX Bot was created as a direct result of feedback from our clients. The post SIX unveils new bot providing clients enhanced insight into corporates’ movements appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Previously in his career, he spent almost a decade at the asset manager in an equity trading role until 2006 and later spent nearly four years at SEB.

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