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

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the Rising Stars of Trading and Execution for 2024, in collaboration with Instinet – a celebration of up and coming talent on the buy-side. Previously recognised individuals have gone on to head up some of the largest and most successful desks across leading asset managers and hedge funds.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management has joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader, according to an announcement on social media. Livingstone has previously served as head of trading – FX and ETFs at Tavistock Investments.

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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. I oversee the capital markets function and I assist in origination.

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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

JULY 31, 2024

UK asset manager Gravis Capital Management has become the latest to integrate Bloomberg AIM in a bid to enhance its front-office workflows. The post Gravis Capital Management enhances front-office capabilities through Bloomberg AIM integration 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

JULY 4, 2023

Brazilian investment fund manager Ace Capital has selected Bloomberg Vault to help it archive and monitor its electronic communications. Data can be accessed from Bloomberg’s Trade Order Management System (TOMS), Bloomberg’s Asset and Investment Manager (AIM), as well as third-party order management systems.

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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. Polar Capital confirmed Jenkins’ departure, while Millennium declined to comment.

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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 22, 2023

Peter Welsby, head of European FICC trading, Manulife Investment Management   Regulation will continue to direct market trends in 2 024, just as it has in recent years. Lisa Danino-Lewis, chief growth officer, CLS May 2024 will see the implementation of T+1 in the US and Canada securities market, which will impact FX post-trade.

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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

JUNE 17, 2024

The move follows a Series A finding round of £15 million in 2021, with this latest investment set to fund the firm’s commercial development, including expanding its sales, product and marketing capabilities in the US, UK, Ireland, Singapore and Australia.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) equity and derivatives trader Rikki Corbyn joined Barclays in a program trading role. He joins Barclays after almost 12 years with SSGA, originally joining the firm in 2013 in a trade support role before moving into an equity and derivatives trading role in 2016.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Deutsche Börse’s final tender result for its public takeover of SimCorp has been announced today, with the company holding 93.97% of the share capital and voting rights in SimCorp upon completion of the acquisition. These are set to be grouped under a newly created investment management solutions segment.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2024

BayernInvest, which has €88 billion assets under management, already utilised Bloomberg solutions within its workflow, including Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise and EMSX solutions, as well as pricing data and the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Indices.

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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

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. It’s no longer relinquishing control.

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Accenture Capital Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Players are also investing in a range of solutions, like data lakes, to generate new data-driven insights that are relevant to the core business, such as using artificial intelligence (AI) to manage foreign exchange based on macroeconomic data and country sentiment intelligence. A strong push to refocus on investment management.

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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. He was also at Merrill Lynch for eight years.

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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

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. He joined Northern Trust in 2007 and has since worked in senior roles across portfolio management, client management and sales.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

Bloomberg AIM and Bloomberg Vault have been adopted by India-based NJ Asset Management to help enable its enterprise-wide digital strategy across the entire investment workflow. According to the firms, Bloomberg AIM addresses NJ Asset Management’s specific needs for tools to support rule-based investment decision-making.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As the leaves begin to fall from the trees, The TRADE Magazine is back for its autumnal third quarter edition. Also included in this edition are the results from The TRADE’s annual Execution Management Systems Survey. In keeping with tradition, this issue has a fixed income spin to it.

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The TRADE

JULY 18, 2023

The increase came off the back of strong activity in the bank’s investment and wealth management divisions. Assets under management in Morgan Stanley’s investment management division rose to $1.4 Wealth management also reported record net revenues of $6.7 The bank reported net revenues of $13.5

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Growth Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Timothy Adler on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success What kind of startups are venture capital trusts (VCTs) looking to invest in during the coming year? Brexit, Covid, Brexit, the cost-of-living crisis and the end of cheap capital have all created strong headwinds for VCT fundraising. What is a VCT?

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock. Tourmaline Partners hired three new seasoned financial markets executives as managing directors to help strengthen its global trading capabilities.

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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. Fast forward to the end of my studies, I applied for a position at a European investment bank.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 3, 2024

The service provider landscape for outsourced trading is made up of an eclectic mix of firms. Trading is in their DNA and their executives are often straight-to-the-point in their communication. Trading is in their DNA and their executives are often straight-to-the-point in their communication.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With the advent of an ever-more technologically innovative and globally connected capital markets sphere, fixed income emerging markets (EM) have demonstrably become an increasingly appealing area of interest for investors. The significance of EM cannot be understated, especially as the macro backdrop continues to improve,” asserts Burke.

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The TRADE

JULY 7, 2023

Cathay Life is expected to own a minority share of 16.75% of the share capital of Generali Investments Holding at closing, subject to customary closing adjustments. In the same week, hedge fund Lansdowne Partners announced its plan to acquire UK equity investment manager, Crux Asset Management, dependent on regulatory approval.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Reverse mergers remain a fixture 2023 opened the door for reverse merger transactions to underperforming small and midsized public life sciences companies that were trading below their initial public offering price and, often, below the value of their cash on hand.

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