The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2024

UBS has appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. As part of the role, he helped enhance Barclays’ custom baskets business. The post UBS names new head of capital markets financing sales for Americas appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2024. The winner will be decided by a live industry vote at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading gala awards night on 7 November at The Savoy. Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted nominees!

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The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2025

Novobanco and Nasdaq have expanded their technology partnership, wherein Novobanco will expand its use of Nasdaqs Calypso platform to support the banks entire capital market operations. Nasdaq Calypso currently supports Novobancos treasury workflows, spanning trade settlement to payment and accounting processes.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business has been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. Following the acquisition, both businesses will continue to be led by Jack Seibald and Michael Rosen.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives) and chief product officer for capital markets at fintech firm Broadridge has announced his departure after more than four years with the business.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vikesh Patel With this approval, the pan-European clearing house will introduce a service for European SFT transactions in cash equities and ETFs, which includes central clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management. The concept of central clearing of SFTs is not new and has been tried before with varying degrees of success.

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

In the constantly evolving financial markets landscape, where volatility and complexity are continually featured, the ability to discern the true costs of trading has become paramount for investors and institutions alike. However, reservations about its usage still exist among users.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) achieved a strong H1 according to results released on Thursday, with growth across capital markets, data and analytics, post-trade and its index business. “We Revenue for ‘fixed income, derivatives and other’ – accounted for Tradeweb activities – rose by 26.5%

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

The capital markets in China are the world’s third largest fee pool, with further investment in the region and market expansion expected across the industry, asserted Mizuho. The post Mizuho unveils plans to establish securities business in China appeared first on The TRADE.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

(“Cognos”) today announced the engagement of Chardan, a leading global investment bank, in the role of capital markets advisor to Nocturne in the highly anticipated business combination transaction (the “Business Combination”) with Cognos.

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How2Exit

MAY 22, 2023

Walker Diebold, bestselling author of “Buy Then Build: How to Acquisitions Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game,” experienced the stock market firsthand as a stockbroker and learned valuable lessons from his experiences. Walker began his career as a stockbroker, advising clients on asset allocation and executing trades.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of a major scheme from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the region as a global FX trading hub, several large banks over the last few years agreed to develop FX pricing and trading engines in Singapore, in partnership with MAS.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trading Technologies International (TT) has unveiled two new dedicated business lines, TT Compliance and TT Quantitative Trading Solutions (QTS), to fuel growth for 2024 across asset classes.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

Terry Duffy The plan is to build a new private Google Cloud region to support CME Group’s global trading, offering derivatives traders access to “cloud-based, ultra-low-latency networking and high-performance computing”. Recent times have seen a swathe of investments from major cloud providers into leading exchanges.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Jefferies has appointed Joram Siegel as managing director, head of fixed income outsourced trading. Siegel joins Jefferies from Marex, where he spent the last four months serving as head of fixed income outsourced trading. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2024

BNY Mellon has made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joins BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Marex to acquire Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business from TD At number ten was a story broken by The TRADE in September, news that Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business had been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danske Bank has selected Broadridge’s multi-asset trading and market making solution, Tbricks, to support multi-asset trading, pricing and position management across its various locations. Tbricks provides a modular trading platform with a flexible user interface, built-in functionality and customisability.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2025

Building businesses with investment talent is a core belief, said Jude Driscoll, president at MIM. The post MetLife IM set to acquire investment teams managing $6 billion from Mesirow appeared first on The TRADE. This includes the strategies expected to be added through the announced acquisition of PineBridge Investments.

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The TRADE

MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

New York-based independent prime broker Clear Street is set to launch a new investment banking business named Strategic Advisory Services. The new business line will offer strategic advisory, transaction and creative capital solutions to emerging growth companies, subject to regulatory approvals.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

What has your journey to the trading desk been like? I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. I oversee the capital markets function and I assist in origination.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But what does the persistent evolution of AI mean for capital markets specifically? The world of trading, and investment generally, is littered with the remnants of now-redundant solutions once thought to be the ‘future’ of the industry.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There is a clear appetite for new innovations around the block market in Europe. Earlier this year, Aquis Exchange confirmed it was acquiring a minority stake in OptimX Markets in a bid to expand its block crossing remit with the investment having been made as part of a consortium including the venture capital arm of Deutsche Boerse Group.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2024

The TRADE understands that BlackRock has taken a minority investment. BlackRock is proud to be a founding investor in the Texas Stock Exchange to increase liquidity and improve market efficiency for BlackRock’s clients and other investors in the US capital markets,” said a BlackRock spokesperson.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kerim Acanal, global head of emerging markets, Tradeweb The request-for-market (RFM) protocol will continue to be the next frontier for electronic trading in emerging markets. This is illustrative of the markets’ protocol preferences changing, and RFM proving its worth as an important tool.

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The TRADE

JULY 25, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz has left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies, The TRADE can reveal. During his time with the asset manager Taitz was responsible for Invesco’s fixed income trading desks in the US, UK and Hong Kong. He was also at Merrill Lynch for eight years.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Clear Street appointed Christopher Smith as chief executive officer of its futures clearing business. Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

Clear Street has appointment Christopher Smith as chief executive officer of its futures clearing business. Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards.

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Business Standard - FInance

JUNE 25, 2023

The rupee traded almost flat at 81.95 against the US currency in the opening trade on Monday amid gains in local stocks and losses in the dollar against major rivals in global markets. against the dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market. The currency moved in a narrow range before trading at 81.95

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

AUGUST 17, 2023

(“Able View,” or the “Company”), one of the largest comprehensive brand management partners of international beauty and personal care brands in China, today announced that it has completed its previously announced business combination with Hainan Manaslu Acquisition Corp. Upon the closing of the business combination, HMAC and Able View Inc.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

Former Northern Trust sales trader Maddy Davies has joined Liontrust as a trader in its multi asset trading team, The TRADE can reveal. Liontrust recently won The TRADE’s multi asset trading desk of the year award in 2022 at Leaders in Trading. Davies joins Liontrust following a two-year stint at Northern Trust.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. However, an undeniable surge has occurred across the trading sphere over the last few years, with decidedly mixed results. And the number is climbing.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2024

The shift to T+1 in the US can largely be described as a success – affirmation rates remain comfortably high, fail rates have stayed reasonably low and FX trades don’t appear to have shifted to bilateral settlement as feared. A few bps matter,” said Jim Goldie, EMEA head of capital markets, ETFs and indexed strategies, Invesco.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

.” Over more than 20 years, State Street has had a local presence in the country, with its Korean entity supporting global clients with trading Korean Won onshore. This is the latest in a series of enhancements in offerings across Asian markets by major industry players.

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