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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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Around two-thirds of buy-siders believe outsourced desks could enhance trade performance in cross-border trading

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For example, 53% believe it could answer the problem of lack of familiarity with local markets, highlighting gaining local market insights (44%) and understanding market structure nuances (44%) as among the main concerns.

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People Moves Monday: RBC, Tourmaline Partners, BlueX and more…

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RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.

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

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Dominic Rieb-Smith, managing director, international head, prime services sales, JP Morgan, refers to the past year as “a standout”. Data from Convergence tracking the top 25 prime brokers showed their market share grew from 83.3% in April 2023, to 92% in 2024. Those are the relatively commoditised parts of the business.

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An evolving service provider landscape

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The service provider landscape for outsourced trading is made up of an eclectic mix of firms. Boutique independents and the largest financial services providers co-exist in this burgeoning space which has some elements of comradery and others of fierce rivalry.

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DWS Group’s Werner Eppacher: ‘Liquidity is like a shy deer’

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He joined DWS Group a year later as a portfolio manager and worked his way up through the ranks, going on to lead teams of PMs focused on a range of instruments that stretched across asset classes. But Eppacher began to notice a distance between himself and the day-to-day action of what was happening in the markets.

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

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These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. Home to Bloomberg’s central data services the interface offers users access to news, data, analytics, and multi-asset trading tools.

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