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 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. While at Credit Suisse, Polera most recently served as director of equity sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 19, 2023

Fixed income axe provision platform, Neptune Networks, has added Lloyds Bank Corporate & Institutional Banking to its bond dealer community. Following the addition, Lloyds Bank will distribute axes of GBP and EUR investment grade and high yield corporate credit as well as UK gilt through Neptune.

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The TRADE

JULY 8, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, left the asset manager after 14 years. According to an update on his social media, Mair joined hedge fund and systematic trading platform Schonfeld as an equity trader dealing with long and short strategies. As part of his new appointment, Chin will be based in New York.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2024

Zakria Hussain has left Crédit Agricole, where he most recently served as global head of eFX spot trading, to join Nomura Group’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital as head of OTC trading. Liquidnet appointed Lara Jacobs as head of international client trading EMEA.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. She began her career with a two-year stint as a principal dealer at Bank of Ireland Global Markets.

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Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Regular individuals have retail banks. Huge corporations have investment banks. The answer: Merchant banks. Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. What is a Merchant Bank? billion).

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

During periods of high market volatility and uncertainty, investors tend to seek more counterparty credit risk mitigation and may change their trading activity,” noted ABN Amro in this year’s provider questionnaire for Global Custodian’s Prime Brokerage survey.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) equity and derivatives trader Rikki Corbyn joined Barclays in a program trading role. He joins Barclays after almost 12 years with SSGA, originally joining the firm in 2013 in a trade support role before moving into an equity and derivatives trading role in 2016.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For Sharon Ruffles, head of fixed income trading for EMEA and Asia Pacific at State Street Global Advisors, the beauty of fixed income lies in how much one day can vary from the next. She began her trading career on an all-female trading desk, and says it was watching the world’s news play out in the markets that drew her to trading. “I

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The TRADE

JUNE 4, 2024

Nicola Danese Higher money market volatility as a result of revised expectations of central bank policy actions has led traders to increasingly reference spreads to overnight index swap (OIC) curves when evaluating pricing of fixed-rate repos.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Following the closing of the transaction, CSIP will rebrand as BANTLEON Convertible Experts, while still servings its clients as a convertibles manager. The CSIP leadership and portfolio management teams fully support the transaction and will remain unchanged,” the firm said in a statement.

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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. Before joining MEAG in 2021, George worked at the multi-family office Novethos and previously held positions at various banks and private banks.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

UBS selected one of its newly acquired Credit Suisse staff to replace its retiring global head of execution services, Brent Johnson, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong. Livingstone previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2024

The platform is managed by Jonathan Webb, who previously served as head of FX strategy at Jefferies. He has also worked as a FX portfolio manager/proprietary trader at banks and hedge funds, including HSBC, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. “At

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The TRADE

JULY 21, 2023

Axes have typically been used by traders looking to execute larger or block trades which they are not comfortable executing electronically. The ability to find a matching opposing side remains crucial in the many, less liquid areas within fixed income,” Lars Salmon, head of fixed income trading EMEA at Fidelity International, told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As head of State Street Global Advisors Europe – her current role – she is responsible for the firm’s EU-based portfolio management, distribution, product development, fund management and operations. In addition, he will focus on ensuring close coordination between the FX trading and sales teams.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

Around-the-clock (24/7) trading is something we already see in the foreign exchange markets and the growing cryptocurrency landscape. Some exchanges do offer pre-market and after-hours trading sessions, where limited trading activity occurs outside regular trading hours. Already in EMEA, we have six valid trading days.

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The TRADE

MAY 28, 2024

The levels of trading volumes in European equities are influenced by a complex interplay of various factors like market fragmentation, economic conditions, monetary policy, investor behaviour and market volatility among other things. Where should regulators be focusing their attention to boost volumes in Europe?

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

London-based fintech C8 Technologies is set to launch an FX hedging platform which employs systemic trading models to help businesses manage their currency exposures. Jonathan Webb, former head of FX strategy at Jefferies, manages the C8 Hedge platform.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. His experience also encompasses hedge fund related roles, including futures and options trading and work on a fixed income desk.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies. Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business. He was also at Merrill Lynch for eight years.

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Peak Frameworks

MAY 17, 2023

Combinations in Finance: More than Just Math The concept of combinations finds significant applications across various areas of finance, underpinning many strategies used in portfolio management, options trading, and scenario analysis. Options Trading In the world of options trading , combinations also play a pivotal role.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Following its addition, the bank will distribute axes for investment grade and high yield corporate credit. This has been a client driven addition, as buy-side traders and portfolio managers continue to ask for high quality data from liquidity providers such as Mizuho.”

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They do this by setting up entire teams (“pods”) for specific sectors, having each team learn their stocks or other securities in-depth, and then trading frequently based on catalysts and changes in investor sentiment. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%.

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The TRADE

MARCH 26, 2024

When volatility increases in these markets, we generally have our clients asking more in-depth questions about their executions or about what is happening in a particular local market, so it is helpful to have powerful relationships with our global custodians and banking partners to best address any concerns our clients might have.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He also previously spent 16 years at Instinet as a vice president in sales trading. Prior to this appointment, she spent three years as head of EMEA EFX sales, bank sales, platform sales, custody FX and cross border payments for FIs at Citi, and before that served as head of EMEA electronic FX sales.

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Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 17, 2024

Example The Trading Perspective Of Interest Rate Swap Uses Swap Rate Swap Curve Who Are The Market Makers? Interest rate swap agreements require terms setting, including fixed rates and contract dates, and are traded over the counter. The exchange in done, based on LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate).

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

Joining the industry after graduating from business school at the age of 20, Papanichola has an impressive track record that spans across five hedge funds and two banks. My key takeaway from those guys was that the core foundation of trading isn’t about buying and selling. I could literally trade any product if I wanted to.

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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. Trading is in their DNA and their executives are often straight-to-the-point in their communication. Trading is in their DNA and their executives are often straight-to-the-point in their communication. Will we see more M&A?

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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

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 This is followed by 13% being accounted for by alternatives and 12% by active equity. You had the gilt crisis.

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The TRADE

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. I joined the banking services team and within that team sat the Treasury function consisting of a money market and FX trader.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Looking at the specifics of where data is set to facilitate development, 48% of executives confirmed that they expect emerging data analytics to be of most benefit in ‘trading, investment analysis and portfolio management’ within their businesses over the next five years.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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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The TRADE

AUGUST 25, 2023

Speaking to The TRADE last week, Paul Humphrey, chief executive of BMLL, explained that these recent moves had come in response to client demand for enhanced coverage. The JV – big xyt ecosystems – is set to offer the Trade Explorer data platform, recently launched in South Africa, to financial centres globally.

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