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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

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Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. Elsewhere, other local regulatory changes and benchmark replacements continue to impact prime brokers.

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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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FX clearing volumes on the up despite a lack of clearing mandates

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One of the benefits of growth in FX clearing includes developments in financial resource management tools, said Coalition Greenwich, further highlighting that increased clearing is set to affect how and with whom the buy-side trades.

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Chasing innovation on Robeco’s global equity trading desk: ‘In order to stay good, we need to become better’

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“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfolio management at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We

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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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Buy-side trading head recommends cautious approach to emerging markets despite strong investor interest

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Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfolio managers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships. However, despite this, Joe Collery, head of trading at Comgest endorsed a measured approach whilst speaking at TradeTech earlier this week.

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In conversation with… FlexTrade’s Andy Mahoney

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” or “give me a breakdown of value by portfolio manager” Taking a step further, orders can be grabbed to prep or allocated internally across the desk. From a fixed-income perspective, bilateral electronic connections are finally becoming commonplace.

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