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. This year, the industry has seen interest in Singapore grow from the buy-side too.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 10, 2025

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, an independent financial services firm. Nearly $6 billion of assets managed by the acquired team will transfer to MIM, under the terms of the transaction.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 2, 2024

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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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Head of Europe for UK-based asset manager Federated Hermes, James Rutherford, has stepped down from his role to pursue a technology venture, The TRADE can reveal. I shall be taking up a more active role in a corporate development and investment advisory position, at an extraordinarily exciting time for the business.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 18, 2023

In 2021, Boxed completed a reverse merger, acquiring Seven Oaks Acquisition in a $900 million SPAC deal in order to begin trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol BOXD. But it’s clear Boxed struggled to make the economics of online grocery work, and it wasn’t alone.

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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. Depending on the day of the week or the settlement cycle used it’ll be more expensive to trade.”

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Next up in our introduction to the distinguished nominees for Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards, we bring you the shortlist for Outstanding Innovation in Fixed Income. The electronic trading platform enables participants to address challenges associated with accessing liquidity and executing efficiently.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the benefits of merging trading across asset classes? The key benefits of merging the trading function to be multi-asset have to come down to efficiency and scale, both as it relates to the execution of trades but also on how the trader operates when observing markets, providing market colour and looking at data.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2023

Polar Capital’s head of trading Alex Jenkins has left the boutique hedge fund to join rival Millennium later this year, The TRADE can reveal. Her new title is unconfirmed; however, The TRADE understands that it is not a trading role. The post People Moves Monday: Shifts in the trading space appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MARCH 25, 2024

State Street’s Charles River is set to manage the front-office operations for Perpetual Group’s Australian asset management business. Craig Squires, group chief operating officer at Perpetual, explained that the decision came as the business sought to address current challenges and complexities across investment management.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

Bank of America has reported a strong second quarter and first half of the year overall, despite its global wealth and investment management total revenue decreasing 4% to $5.2 The bank also highlighted that lower than average transactional volumes had contributed to lower asset management and brokerage fees.

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The TRADE

MARCH 8, 2024

Leithner has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse AG since 2018, responsible for pre- & post-trading. In the role he has been chairperson for Clearstream and covered Investment Management Solutions segment with ISS STOXX and SimCorp. The two will operate as co-CEOs until the end of the year.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Redburn Atlantic has expanded its UK and European execution business with two new heads of sales trading. Tony Atkins was appointed UK head of sales trading. Atkins joined Redburn Atlantic in 2004 as a sales trader having previously served for eight years at Morgan Grenfell and two years at Marathon Asset Management.

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The TRADE

JUNE 14, 2024

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 TRADE

JULY 22, 2024

Head of London equity trading at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Mark Perry, has retired The TRADE revealed. Perry’s retirement follows several other major retirements from buy-side trading heads in recent months. Citi named Jamie Miller head of electronic equity sales trading for the EMEA region.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2023. The winner will be decided by a live industry vote at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading gala awards night on 8 November. Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted nominees!

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The TRADE

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chris Jenkins, managing director and global head of sales, professional services and support at LSEG TORA has announced his departure following almost two decades with the business. Prior to his 17 year stint at TORA, Jenkins was managing director at Caspian, now LSEG Data and Analytics.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This realisation became one of the catalysts which has sparked more of an acceptance of outsourcing parts of the trading desk among buy-side firms, something which many once considered – though some still do – an unthinkable concept. And soon, it may no longer be just a service that applies to smaller fund managers.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A dilution levy is applied by investment managers as part of their cashflow management process of pooled vehicles to ensure clients are treated fairly while also mitigating the impact of price volatility resulting from cashflow activity.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2023

Invesco’s US-based global head of fixed income trading Glenn Taitz left the firm to join Adroit Trading Technologies. Taitz joined buy-side OEMS provider Adroit as its head of business operations after seven and a half years with Invesco helming its fixed income trading business.

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The TRADE

JULY 31, 2024

Raquel Alves Specifically, Gravis is set to utilise Bloomberg AIM to provide operational intelligence and management for its front-office to enhance pre-trade processes and order generation workflow, as well as for fund holdings reconciliation.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2023

million funding round aimed at expediating the development of FIA Tech’s Trade Data Network (TDN) initiative. The TDN initiative provides a shared ledger of trading information specifically aimed at addressing current fragmentation and lack of transparency which exists in exchange traded derivatives (ETD) post-trade processing.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. His experience also encompasses hedge fund related roles, including futures and options trading and work on a fixed income desk.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

TS Imagine has expanded its team in the Asia Pacific with two new appointments from investment management fintech Enfusion. Stephanie Cheung has been appointed sales director, while An Hoong will work within the account management team, responsible for technical account management and client support.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One size rarely fits all,” explained Tod Van Name, global head of foreign exchange electronic trading at Bloomberg. Benjamin Mahe, head of electronic trading and data at AXA Investment Managers, suggested that reducing expenses was a key consideration – specifically, making sure not to spend too many resources on flow.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS 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. Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Naoto Komoro to lead its asset management business in Japan.

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The TRADE

JUNE 1, 2023

Jenny Johnson, president and chief executive of Franklin Templeton, said: “With outstanding investment performance, Putnam will add complementary capabilities to our existing specialist investment managers to meet the varied needs of our clients and will increase Franklin Templeton’s defined contribution AUM.”

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Steele’s position is effective from 2 October 2023, at which time he will also join the DTCC management committee, management risk committee and investment management committee, as well as becoming chair of the ITP board of managers.

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2023

BlackRock promoted Dean Catton to take the helm for its European credit business after spending the last two years as its head of European leveraged finance trading for its alternatives business. Previously in his career, he spent several years in credit trading roles at StormHarbour Securities, UBS and Elgin Capital.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

What has your journey to the trading desk been like? I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. It’s been busy. There’s been a reopening in capital markets.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has expanded its footprint across Asia with the opening of its new Singapore office, the latest development in the firm’s growth strategy for the region. In addition, LGIM has expanded its distribution team following increased demand for the firm’s investment solutions.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

RBC Capital Markets appointed Giles Gleave and Mike Heraty as its newest managing directors, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He has been appointed senior trader at Norges Bank Investment Management, based in New York. The post People Moves Monday: Musical chairs appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The development has enabled six investors to follow-on from their original investment and four additional investors to join the group of firms with a stake in FINBOURNE. FINBOURNE provides investment management solutions and a cloud-native data management platform.

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