The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fintech giant FIS has acquired SaaS post-trade platform Torstone Technology, according to multiple sources close to the matter. The deal will further bolster FIS’ capital markets technology offering, having acquired SunGard in a major deal back in 2015.

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The TRADE

APRIL 22, 2024

BMO Capital Markets managing director and co-head of electronic trading has left the bank, The TRADE can reveal. After 10 years as co-founder of Clearpool and MD at BMO, I have decided to take some time away from electronic trading. It has been an amazing journey,” said Wald in an update.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2025

Novobanco and Nasdaq have expanded their technology partnership, wherein Novobanco will expand its use of Nasdaqs Calypso platform to support the banks entire capital market operations. Nasdaq Calypso currently supports Novobancos treasury workflows, spanning trade settlement to payment and accounting processes.

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The TRADE

JULY 23, 2024

Pan-European trading venue for securities Spectrum Markets has welcomed Baader Bank as a new trading member. Nicky Maan Baader Bank has been trading securities for over four decades, offering its partners and institutional investors access to capital markets through integrated trading platforms.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cboe Clear Europe has received regulatory approval to clear European Securities Financing Transactions (SFTs), granted by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM). Initially, the service will cover key European markets, with plans to expand the offering based on client demand and market developments.”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danske Bank has selected Broadridge’s multi-asset trading and market making solution, Tbricks, to support multi-asset trading, pricing and position management across its various locations. Tbricks provides a modular trading platform with a flexible user interface, built-in functionality and customisability.

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The TRADE

MARCH 12, 2024

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

Nasdaq and the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) have expanded their technology partnership which will see the former upgrade its core trading platform to Nasdaq’s most advanced matching engine. We believe this partnership will speed up the modernisation advancement of the Indonesia capital market while supporting sustainable economic growth.”

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) saw overall growth across its key businesses in 2023, with considerable improvement across data and analytics, capital markets, and in particular, post-trade. year-on-year increase, while capital markets saw a 6.1% In capital markets, the 6.1%

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

The new desk is Investec’s first low touch offering based in London and comes off the back of increased client demand, The TRADE understands. Lowres joins Investec as head of electronic trading and execution strategy after almost 17 years with Liberum. Alongside him, Matthew West joins Investec as a global electronic sales trader.

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The TRADE

JUNE 25, 2024

Named Smart Markets, the new service will transform Euroclear’s data into interpretable insights to detect market movements, enhance trading models and build informed strategies. Smart Markets brings together raw data from market sources including Euroclear, which is then enriched, normalised and analysed automatically.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. Boston-based McKenna joined GMO in 2004 as a pricing analyst, and most recently worked in a multi-asset trading role for 15 years.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2025

As part of the move, MIM is acquiring the high yield and bank loan, strategic fixed income and small-cap equity teams and certain related investment products. The post MetLife IM set to acquire investment teams managing $6 billion from Mesirow 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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A Citadel equity trader and senior associate has left the firm to join Ilex Capital, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Jack Boland has joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

What has your journey to the trading desk been like? I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. I oversee the capital markets function and I assist in origination.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Patel was appointed director, central bank sales at RBC Capital Markets, based in London, responsibility for distributing global rates product. The post HSBC trader joins JP Morgan in New York appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Jefferies has appointed Joram Siegel as managing director, head of fixed income outsourced trading. Siegel joins Jefferies from Marex, where he spent the last four months serving as head of fixed income outsourced trading. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and HSBC Bank Middle East are collaborating to develop digital fixed income securities, with the aim to broaden capital market use cases in the Middle East. The post HSBC and Abu Dhadi Securities Exchange partner to develop digital fixed income securities appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Commodities specialist Marex has completed its acquisition of TD Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business, first announced in September. TD Bank Group then agreed to acquire Cowen in August 2022. “The Rosen and Seibald have been with the business since its inception in the ’90s, selling it to Cowen in 2015.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Leaders in Trading awards, with the recipients honoured at a ceremony held last night at The Savoy, London. BlackRock and Millennium took home the award for Trading Desk of the Year Long-Only and Trading Desk of the Year Hedge Fund, respectively. Meanwhile, T.

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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 12, 2024

Deutsche Bank has signed up to the onboarding and maintenance platform for custody, broker trading, and buy-side accounts offered by ascending fintech Saphyre. By having them as part of our network, not only will Deutsche Bank realise middle- and back-office operational benefits, but our mutual buy-side clients will gain them as well.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Barclays selected an internal candidate and a new hire from BNP Paribas to become its new co-heads of G10 FX trading. New co-heads Torsten Schöneborn and Jerry Minier will be London-based, reporting to Michael Lublinsky, global head of macro, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. His next role is unconfirmed.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2024

He joins the firm from Deutsche Bank where he served as a currency options trader. Prior to this, Roberts spent five and a half years at NatWest Markets, most recently serving as a FX derivatives trader. Elsewhere in his tenure at NatWest Markets, he worked as a US rates strategies.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

New York-based independent prime broker Clear Street is set to launch a new investment banking business named Strategic Advisory Services. The new business line will offer strategic advisory, transaction and creative capital solutions to emerging growth companies, subject to regulatory approvals.

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The TRADE

APRIL 3, 2024

The Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are working together to operate a new Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) – a regime that will allow firms to use developing technology in the issuance, trading and settlement of securities. The DSS is expected to open applications in the summer of 2024.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

Terry Duffy The plan is to build a new private Google Cloud region to support CME Group’s global trading, offering derivatives traders access to “cloud-based, ultra-low-latency networking and high-performance computing”. Recent times have seen a swathe of investments from major cloud providers into leading exchanges.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

Deutsche Bank has re-entered the local DCM in South Korea as it expands its investment banking capabilities in the region in a bid to support its local clients in accessing global debt capital markets. It also provides asset management services to its South Korean clients through Deutsche Bank subsidiary, DWS.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Nasdaq has integrated AI into its Calypso platform to enhance bank and insurance risk calculations, in a move set to process risk calculations up to 100 times faster. Gil Guillaumey The offering offers new methodology to conduct investment portfolio risk calculations and produce predictive analytics, based on advanced machine learning.

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The TRADE

JULY 6, 2023

RBC’s co-head of European electronic sales and trading, Bianca Gould, is set to leave the bank after almost three years as part of streamlining measures across the business. The post RBC’s electronic trading co-head Bianca Gould to depart as part of streamlining across the bank appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business has been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. Expanding our capital markets business also adds to our diversification and to the resilience of our franchise.” TD Bank Group completed its all-cash $1.3

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kerim Acanal, global head of emerging markets, Tradeweb The request-for-market (RFM) protocol will continue to be the next frontier for electronic trading in emerging markets. This is illustrative of the markets’ protocol preferences changing, and RFM proving its worth as an important tool.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Deutsche Bank has completed the acquisition of institutional broker Numis and has unveiled a new offering to be known as ‘Deutsche Numis’. The transaction is the next step in Deutsche Bank’s Global Hausbank strategy, which aims to unlock deeper engagement with corporates in the UK.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

We look forward to supporting our clients to participate in the Korean FX market both onshore and offshore.” ” Over more than 20 years, State Street has had a local presence in the country, with its Korean entity supporting global clients with trading Korean Won onshore.

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