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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Commodities specialist Marex has completed its acquisition of TD Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business, first announced in September. It’s something that we learned to do quite well when we got to Cowen and we had a lot of success with working with different product lines,” Rosen told The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

FINBOURNE Technology has raised £55 million in a Series B funding round led by Highland Europe and AXA Venture Partners (AVP). This funding round and support from top-tier investors will help us deliver our enhanced go-to-market strategies,” said Thomas McHugh, chief executive and co-founder of FINBOURNE Technology.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Leaders in Trading awards, with the recipients honoured at a ceremony held last night at The Savoy, London. BlackRock and Millennium took home the award for Trading Desk of the Year Long-Only and Trading Desk of the Year Hedge Fund, respectively.

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the first batch of shortlists for the upcoming Leaders in Trading Awards ceremony set to take place in London this November. The trading event of the year is set to return once again at The Savoy on 7 November, bringing together our industry for a glittering evening of celebration and jubilation.

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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 post Top 3 Trends for the Institutional Investing & Pension Funds Space in 2018 appeared first on Accenture Capital Markets Blog.

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The TRADE

MARCH 12, 2024

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain. It’s having that interoperability while preserving the privacy and control.”

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The TRADE

JANUARY 11, 2024

As part of the expansion, FIS has extended its FIS’ Cleared Derivatives (CD) platform – historically used by clearing members – to buy-side firms including hedge funds, asset managers and insurance companies, allowing them to access trading venues and clearing houses directly, which can help reduce counterparty risk and free up capital.

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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. Jim Goldie “The impact on a Thursday is that brokers need to fund for another three days.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

European trade associations have published a joint statement urging EU policymakers to delete the proposed active account requirement under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3.0). The post Trade associations urge policymakers to delete active account proposal under EMIR 3.0 appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2024

Designed to rival the likes of incumbent exchanges Nasdaq and NYSE in the US, Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) has raised $120 million from around a dozen investors including BlackRock and Citadel Securities in a funding round closed in May.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Improved post-trade efficiencies and initial regulatory leniency will hopefully make this an easier pill to swallow but funding costs and liquidity impacts are yet to be realised. Despite the ongoing uncertainty for participants, 2024 promises to be another eventful year for Pan-European market structure.

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Growth Business

JULY 10, 2023

Hunt hopes the pension reforms will improve the funding environment for start-ups and make UK capital markets more attractive, following a trend by UK start-ups to list on NASDAQ over the London Stock Exchange such as Cambridge-based chip company Arm.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

The firm will provide services and solutions across high added value funds raising and management, centring on bonds. 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.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2023

The Mifid/r review forms a key base for the completion of a Capital Markets Union (CMU) that works for investors and issuers, a necessary element to ensure that EU capital markets across asset classes are more integrated and competitive globally.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The pandemic marked a seminal moment across the capital markets, effectively drawing a line between the old world and the new. And soon, it may no longer be just a service that applies to smaller fund managers. Outsourced trading is no longer a taboo topic. It’s no longer all or nothing.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Among those to have responded have been the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the Association of Global Custodians (AGC). ICMA commented that progressive penalties introduces unnecessary stress to a market that is most likely already facing liquidity challenges.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business. Gray joined Liquidnet from Morgan Stanley, where he served as a managing director, responsible for convertible bond sales, trading risk and research.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2025

SIX has launched a new data offering to enhance coverage, reliability and pricing flexibility for the global fixed income markets. The post SIX launches new data offering for global fixed income markets appeared first on The TRADE. The provider has said that the offering will give clients access to data for 3.6

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (“Covered Corporations”) effected after December 31, 2022 (the “Excise Tax”). [1] This post highlights key guidance from the Notice as it relates to common M&A and capital market transactions.

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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). The post Ex-Credit Suisse sales trader joins Euronext as head of continental equity sales appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 28, 2023

Earlier in his career he held equity sales and trading positions at Cantor Fitzgerald. His fellow co-head will be Nicholas Hemmerly who joins Clear Street from his role as senior managing director, head of investment banking at Bridgeway Capital Partners. Clear Street has named Ryan Gerety as managing director, investment banking.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

One other point was that there should be a recommendation, but not a regulatory requirement, to transition the mutual fund subscription and redemption settlement cycle to T+2 from the common T+3/4 in the UK and other popular EEA fund jurisdictions to coincide with the UK, EU and Swiss transition to T+1 in capital markets.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

RBC has appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets. Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock.

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The TRADE

MARCH 12, 2024

Deutsche Bank has signed up to the onboarding and maintenance platform for custody, broker trading, and buy-side accounts offered by ascending fintech Saphyre. All while being first to trade on any new funds.” Saphye won Fintech of the Year at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading awards 2023, in a category supported by Instinet.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

Its role and the way it interacts with institutional investors differs region to region. Looking into this sector, which is set to experience highly anticipated, yet arguably unpredictable, growth – note the GameStop saga of 2021 – The TRADE deep dives into some of the key considerations.

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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. Alongside his appointment, Redburn Atlantic sales trader Luc Demoulin was appointed EU head of sales trading.

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The TRADE

MAY 31, 2023

“We’re at the roll-up-your-sleeves, all-hands-on-deck stage,” said Keith Evans, executive director of the Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA), who this week highlighted one of the key remaining concerns for the market ahead of next year’s switch to a shortened settlement cycle.

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The TRADE

JUNE 4, 2024

“The $26 trillion Treasury market — the deepest, most liquid market in the world — is the base upon which so much of our capital markets are built,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a statement in December.

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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 a fund manager for the passive and quantitative investment management department. Before joining Northern Trust Asset Management, Komoro spent six years at Mizuho Trust & Banking Co.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This acquisition further expands our growing distribution network by over 500 clients, including banks, insurance companies, private debt funds, mutual funds and private wealth managers,” said Anthony Di Ciollo, global head of fixed income at StoneX. Fixed income broker Octo Finances is in Paris.

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