The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

BIDS Trading has appointed Brian Hickey senior director of product. Hickey previously served as head of product at LedgerEdge for nearly a year and a half, prior to the trading platform closing down last year. Most recently, he served as head of cross-asset electronic trading, a position he held for just over three years.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. He joins from ED&F Man Capital Markets, a company he founded.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2024

GIX submitted its Form 1 application on 9 May 2023, outlining plans to operate a fully automated electronic trading platform for the trading of listed equities – no physical trading floor is planned. It means your company is sincere in its motivation to follow through on those promises. GIX will provide that.”

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Gavin Collins has joined Trumid in a newly created role to head up its dealer-to-client Attributed Trading protocol. He has two decades of experience in the capital markets industry and was previously Neptune’s chief technology and product officer, having joined back in 2021.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Barclays selected an internal candidate and a new hire from BNP Paribas to become its new co-heads of G10 FX trading. New co-heads Torsten Schöneborn and Jerry Minier will be London-based, reporting to Michael Lublinsky, global head of macro, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. His next role is unconfirmed.

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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

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

MARCH 18, 2024

BTIG made two key appointments including promoting Troy Donohue to head of Americas portfolio trading and hiring Henri Taylor as director within electronic trading sales. Elsewhere, Taylor brings over 20 years’ experience in electronic trading sales to the firm.

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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

APRIL 11, 2024

Ruiz previously spent nearly 12 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as director, sales trader for Credit Suisse’s suite of algorithmic trading strategies, Advanced Execution Services (AES). Before joining Credit Suisse, Ruiz spent two and a half years at Cheuvreux as an electronic equities sales trader.

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

The creation of private rooms where members can trade bilaterally behind closed doors and the impact this would have on liquidity was a key theme addressed at TradeTech Europe 2024, with panellists discussing whether such methods can be considered fair and equitable. We talk a lot about retail and retail involvement in the market.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Cboe Europe has announced the support of a range of participants for its new trading service Cboe BIDS VWAP-X. Early adopters of the new trading service include Bernstein, BNP Paribas, BMO Capital Markets, Instinet Europe, Jefferies KCx and Virtu Financial.

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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

APRIL 26, 2024

Head of execution strategy and an electronic sales trader at Liberum are set to up sticks to join Investec, The TRADE can reveal. Dom Lowres and Matt West Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy, and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, are set to join the firm in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 18, 2024

Despite the indisputable decline in physical trading practices, it is enduring within an increasingly technological capital markets world which has already put innumerable out-dated practices out of fashion. Market opinion – and moves – suggest that mourning the death of open outcry  may be premature.

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The TRADE

JUNE 10, 2024

UBS selected one of its newly acquired Credit Suisse staff to replace its retiring global head of execution services, Brent Johnson, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He began his trading career at UBS in Hong Kong. Livingstone previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

RBC Capital Markets has appointed Giles Gleave and Mike Heraty as its newest managing directors, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He will partner with several private side teams, such as: European solutions, equity capital markets and global investment banking, according to the internal memo.

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The TRADE

JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Also appointed to the low touch sales and trading team at RBC is Suzanne Webster, who joined as a multi-asset director.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 28, 2023

UBS shakes up execution services management team structure People moves are always one of our biggest draws in readership, and in October, UBS’ plans to make changes within its execution services business , specifically the electronic trading area, became one of most read stories of the year.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sam Hewson – previously global head of digital FX solutions and EMEA head of corporate sales and solutions (CSS) – was appointed global head of FX sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Elsewhere, Jamie Mortimore is set to re-join Citi to lead the newly formed global rates algo trading team.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

O’Connor has also previously held senior positions at State Street Global Advisors during his ten-year tenure, where his responsibilities included leading “a diverse cohort of product and capital markets teams for the SPDR ETF franchise”. In this new role, Collins will oversee the development and expansion of Attributed Trading (AT).

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First, we expect predictive capabilities to become table stakes for most participants in electronic markets. For example, market data systems will be expected to be not only fast and content-rich, but also predictive, delivering the expected direction and timing of price changes synchronously with the latest prices.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Louis de Kock is set to depart J O Hambro Capital Management in the coming weeks, with Adam Simmons taking over as head of trading, as revealed by The TRADE. Asset manager Ninety One promoted from within for its new deputy global head of trading and head of trading for South Africa. He will report to Blatch.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Albon has been appointed associate director, senior sales for EMEA electronic trading and program trading, set to join the firm in February next year. She will report to global head of electronic trading and distribution, Jason Rand. She began her career at Newedge in a cash equity trading and sales role.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 31, 2023

Liquidnet brings knowledge and experience in capital markets to the Partnership and will play a crucial role in shaping and informing Plato’s initiatives within capital markets, the organisation said. The post Plato Partnership admits Liquidnet as strategic partner appeared first on The TRADE.

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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

JULY 10, 2023

He originally joined HSBC in 2014 as a developer for front office data, working his way up to his most recent role as head of AI for markets and securities services which he served in for four years. James Kirk joined independent outsourced trading services provider Tourmaline Partners as managing director.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

The solution includes fast access to relevant new issue securities with the most up-to-date information, electronic order routing, and automatic delivery of final allocations. First, orders from various portfolio managers are staged and aggregated before being electronically routed to InvestorAccess.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

UK-based investment bank Peel Hunt appointed former head of electronic and program trading and sales at Numis Securities, Nishad Vallonthaiel, to head up its own electronic trading division. As president of European markets as Nasdaq he currently oversees the Nordic and Baltic regions.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The transaction – first reported on back in April – was previously valued at £410 million according to documents seen by The TRADE. The post Deutsche Bank completes acquisition of Numis appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

“Redburn and Atlantic have a proud history of being fully aligned with their clients and working with them to ensure a best execution outcome both via high touch and electronic trading. With more names under coverage and more access to companies, we anticipate our market share will continue to grow in Europe and especially the US.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 8, 2023

The two leading US capital markets watchdogs have come down on almost a dozen organisations over recordkeeping failures with their combined penalties totalling nearly $550 million. All 11 firms had been found to have been using longstanding “off-channel” communications following an investigation by the SEC. billion to date.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2023

Among the SEC’s reforms is the proposal to amend certain rules under Reg NMS to adopt variable minimum pricing increments – or tick sizes – for the quoting and trading of NMS stocks. Looking at tick size too, if you don’t get that right, you can reduce and fragment liquidity and make it more costly to trade.”

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The TRADE

APRIL 30, 2024

The importance of these rules can be linked to the reshaping of the regulatory environment and ultimately creating a more robust trading environment and promoting investor confidence. A key objective of the regulation was to increase market transparency through the promotion of regulated trading venues and encouraging price discovery.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A friend suggested I consider investment banking and following a trading and sales summer placement at ABN AMRO in the City, I was instantly captivated – I had found my fit. I spent eight years on the sell-side in various fixed income trading roles, before jumping to the buy-side, and to BlackRock, where I am today.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

Several European exchanges are well underway with plans to bring out offerings of this ilk in the next few months The TRADE understands, while a handful of US alternative trading systems (ATS) are also preparing to make the crossing over to the Bloc to replicate the progress they have achieved in the US.

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