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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

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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. “In

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

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After a few turbulent years stemming from market volatility, rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil, inflation, soaring energy prices, client performance, fee pressures, a mini banking crisis, looming regulation, constant tweaking of risk models, rising client complexities and the notorious Archegos saga… well, things are looking up.

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Algorithmic trading: Smarter than ever?

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Information leakage When utilising algorithms, information leakage becomes paramount, especially when breaking up orders and dealing with multiple banks. These approaches not only protect a trader’s strategy but also enhance the efficacy of their trades in a complex, multi-bank environment.”

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Fabien Oreve: Fixing Europe’s future markets

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Market fragmentation has increased over recent years and led to the dispersion of trading activity across primary exchanges, lit and dark multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), banks’ systematic internalisers (SIs) and electronic liquidity providers’ (ELP SIs). Could a consolidated tape offer up a suitable alternative tool to CLOBs (CT)?

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Interest Rate Swap | Examples | Uses | Swap Curve

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Financial institutions with good credit ratings offer swap facilities to clients and charge fees from brokers. The exchange in done, based on LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate). The banks try to spread the risk and exposure to interest rate by making the dealers sell the swaps to many parties.

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A new chapter for RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s London-based fixed income trading desk

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While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfolio managers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy.

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Trading at the frontier

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Previously in her career, she spent two and a half years as head of fixed income trading for UK asset management at Deutsche Asset Management [now DWS] and nearly five years at Pioneer Investments as a senior fixed income dealer. She began her career with a two-year stint as a principal dealer at Bank of Ireland Global Markets.

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