The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

European agency broker and equities research specialist Redburn and US equity brokerage Atlantic Equities have completed the merger of their operations under Redburn’s parent company Rothschild & Co, initially announced on 26 April. Atlantic clients will also be able to delve into the existing European product.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 18, 2024

Following the announcement from MIAX last October about plans to launch a new US options electronic exchange and physical trading floor, The TRADE wanted to delve into why open outcry has persisted and the potential for a quiet resurgence of the dying practice. There’s often much, much more liquidity behind those on-screen prices.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As equity traders continue to seek ever more innovative ways to bolster their offerings, the rise of Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) has followed – currently executing around 16% of all US equity volume. This huge number is understandable given the significant amount of all US equity volume being executed on ATSs.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Albon has been appointed associate director, senior sales for EMEA electronic trading and program trading, set to join the firm in February next year, The TRADE can reveal. She will report to global head of electronic trading and distribution, Jason Rand. She began her career at Newedge in a cash equity trading and sales role.

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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. McCartney heads up the EMEA fundamental equity trading team, having made the shift from the London Stock Exchange to the front-office earlier in her career.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

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. Robeco formerly had a central multi-asset trading desk across equities, foreign exchange and fixed income, headed up by Robbert Wijgerse.

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

When accessing retail liquidity, we would check the usual sources as for any trade, including agency broker block flows, broker indications of interest, which brokers have traded volume recently, and any potential to trade stock on risk. All of the above refers to UK equity retail flow and the RSP network.

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The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2023

Bloomberg has introduced a white label solution for US treasuries, allowing a wide range of broker dealers to provide liquidity for trades initiated on its platform as part of its D&I dealer initiative. The offering – which has been expanded to include US treasuries – is used by investment managers and bond dealers as a pool of liquidity.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 1, 2023

The players that now dominate in the EMEA equities space are typically larger and have roots that stretch across the Atlantic due to tricky market conditions that have made economies of scale and the ability to internalise risk increasingly essential. “If Goldman Sachs’ equities revenues globally had fallen from $3.24

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The TRADE

JULY 1, 2024

Former head of market structure and liquidity solutions at broker dealer Kepler Cheuvreux Byron Griffin is set to join Franco-German financial services firm ODDO BHF. Griffin left Kepler in May after over eight years with the broker dealer. Jefferies appointed Peter Johansson as an equity sales trader.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

The four separate rulemakings put forward by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December last year represent the most significant attempt to revamp market structure for US equities in recent memory. While evolution of equities market structure in the US is long overdue, what form it should come in is up for debate.

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux’s head of market structure and liquidity solutions has left the broker dealer, The TRADE can reveal. He joined the broker dealer in 2016 as its head of portfolio and electronic sales trading, later assuming his most recent role as head of market structure and liquidity solutions in 2022.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 24, 2024

Algorithmic development has and always will evolve to achieve the best performance possible versus the client benchmark,” says Alex Harman, head of EMEA electronic and program trading at Goldman Sachs. The longer I take, the more opportunity/risk I’m exposed to. This is where understanding your algo tools is key.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Alongside him, Torsten Schöneborn joined the bank from BNP Paribas where he had been global head of electronic platform and global head of quant prime broking. Before that, he spent almost 10 years at Deutsche Bank, where his roles included global co-head of electronic equities and head of eFX spot quant trading.

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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. Webster also joins from Credit Suisse where she had previously spent 18 years, first as a pan European equity cash trader and later in a sales and trading role also within the AES division.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

Former head of market structure and liquidity solutions at broker dealer Kepler Cheuvreux Byron Griffin is set to join Franco-German financial services firm ODDO BHF, The TRADE can reveal. Griffin left Kepler in May after over eight years with the broker dealer. He joins as head of execution sales and microstructure.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a panel at the JSE SA Trade Connect 2024 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, panellists explored the ways in which fragmentation is impacting the trading of dual listed equities in the South African market. There needs to be [an even] playing field where everybody can do it.

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The TRADE

APRIL 26, 2024

Head of execution strategy and an electronic sales trader at Liberum are set to up sticks to join Investec, The TRADE can reveal. Dom Lowres and Matt West Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy, and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, are set to join the firm in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Agency broker BTIG selected the former head of execution strategy at Millennium to take up the same role. In his new role, he will also co-head electronic trading and be responsible for the development of BTIG’s new generation algorithms. He joined JP Morgan in 2005 as a trader on the equity exotics desk in London.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Albon has been appointed associate director, senior sales for EMEA electronic trading and program trading, set to join the firm in February next year. She will report to global head of electronic trading and distribution, Jason Rand. Previously in her career, she spent three and a half years as a cash equity broker at Tullett Prebon.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

UK-based investment bank Peel Hunt appointed former head of electronic and program trading and sales at Numis Securities, Nishad Vallonthaiel, to head up its own electronic trading division. Also appointed to the electronic trading team at Peel Hunt alongside Vallonthaiel is Vinesh Chhaya, who joins the unit as a senior sales trader.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

SIX’s head of equities Adam Matuszewski has resigned from the exchange group after over 10 years to take up a new role at Citadel Securities based in London. Matuszewski has spent the last ten and a half years at SIX in equities focused roles, originally joining the exchange in 2013 in a trainee product management role for equities.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. This makes some electronic and algorithmic methods of trading more of a market disruptor, the team explain. “A

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The TRADE

MAY 24, 2024

Brexit clearly did not help, nor help the perception of UK equities. That is something that the mid and smaller brokers can access relative to the bulge bracket who don’t really see that as an important USP for the business right now. We are currently developing our own differentiated electronic product.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2023

Investment banking boutique KNG Securities appointed Gary Ballard as its new head of equities. Ballard brings over 30 years’ experience in equity sales, having previously held positions at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Baring Securities. The post People Moves Monday: In case you missed it appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 2, 2023

One of BCS Global Markets’ prime services sales leads has left the investment bank to join boutique merging markets broker and investment bank BancTrust. Grigoriy Kozin has been appointed head of business development, prime services and electronic execution at BancTrust after three years in his role at BCS.

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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’. We are proud to introduce Deutsche Numis as a leading corporate broker in the UK and we look forward to working with Alex, Ross and the rest of the team.”

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Armando Diaz, chief executive of PureStream The ATS claims to provider brokers and their institutional clients with improved bandwidth in order to access liquidity faster, more cost-effectively and with greater security. PureStream is exclusively available to broker dealers and does not connect directly with the buy-side.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 2, 2020

First, these brokers each have growth strategies whose success is measured by the expansion of revenues and EBITDA. Furthermore, as we have reported in previous blogs, these agencies already had their equity and debt capital lined up before the full force of the pandemic hit. There are two principal reasons.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 9, 2024

It’s extremely important that the trading desks are also in tune with the analytics to ensure efficient onwards processes like liaising with brokers on their trading performance. Drilling deeper into brokers’ venue choices has also become imperative to analyse on the buy-side. Can the use of TCA in fixed income mirror equities?

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2020

The Largest Strategic Players Tell Us Full Steam Ahead – The major strategic acquirors have informed us that they plan to continue to aggressively pursue acquisitions of insurance brokers. These strategic acquirors typically have both their equity and debt facilities in place, so there is no shortage of capital.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

Although I had been trading for a long time my background had been mainly in equities so moving to multi-asset was quite a shock to the system and a steep learning curve. Sitting on the desk as an assistant was exciting, listening to the different styles used by the traders and hearing how they interacted with the sell-side.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The end-to-end workflow allows sell-side users acting as executing brokers to use straight through processing (STP) and facilitate a trade from a single interface. Bloomberg has launched a new automated workflow for trading and reporting of Euro denominated interest rate swaps vs bond futures on Eurex.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While adoption is widespread in equities other asset classes such as fixed income have been slower to adopt these systems given the nuances of the workflows and liquidity landscapes in these markets. They’re typically used in equities given that this asset class trades on exchange unlike fixed income and some foreign exchange assets.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

Trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine has added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers. TS Imagine’s TradeSmart features pre-certified connections to more than 250 listed brokers and venues, as well as broker algos.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 22, 2023

When considering AI’s role in shaping trading decisions, you can think about a period several years ago when algorithms were newly introduced to the equities market. ” It’s a common question in electronic trading across most markets, where a wide array of tools is made available.

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