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BNP Paribas to pay €5.1 billion for AXA Investment Managers in trillion-dollar asset management JV

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BNP Paribas has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of AXA Investment Managers – representing around €850 million in assets under management – for just over €5 billion. The deal is set to include an agreement for BNP Paribas’ long term management of a large part of AXA’s assets.

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BNY Mellon launches new FX platform to help manage execution and access to price transparency

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BNY Mellon has launched a new foreign exchange (FX) platform, meeting client demands to manage execution across their entire portfolio and access improved price transparency. Named Universal FX, the platform supports BNY Mellon clients across all market segments, including investment managers, corporates, hedge funds and wealth managers.

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Jupiter becomes latest institution to join Saphyre

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Stephen Roche As part of the move, Jupiter will leverage Saphyre’s platform for the onboarding and maintenance of its trading relationships with brokers and custodians. Saphyre’s automated intelligence enables onboarding and maintenance of custody and broker trading, alongside synchronising associated reference data in real-time.

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The future role of the trader as product owner

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With increasing process and decision-making automation in trading, I cannot see this evolving in that direction – unless the trader makes a script to instruct the systems to route volume based on what broker took him/her out for lunch that week, in which case the trader would need to know how to program!

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Capital Group latest to join Saphyre

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Saphyre’s technology manages the onboarding and maintenance of custody, broker trading, and buy-side accounts. Having Capital Group, a top five financial investment management firm, join this endeavor is incredibly exciting,” said Stephen Roche, president and co-founder at Saphyre.

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SEC adopts new short selling rule to bolster transparency for market participants

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Named Rule 13f-2, the new rule will require institutional investment managers that meet or exceed specific thresholds to report short sale related information for equity securities through Form SHO. In the final ruling the SEC has changed the reporting requirement to occur at the end of the day.

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Bloomberg expands D&I dealer initiative with introduction of new US treasuries white label solution

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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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