The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UK-based investment management firm Waverton has outsourced a portion of its trading to Northern Trust Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS). Northern Trust is supporting the trading of equities, derivatives and fixed income assets as Waverton’s sole provider of trading services. “We Waverton has £9.1 Waverton has £9.1

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to reveal the shortlisted nominees for this year’s coveted Buy-Side Awards, in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange. This year’s categories have been updated slightly, and for the first time the Buy-Side Awards will celebrate a Hedge Fund Trading Desk of the Year alongside the Long Only category.

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Midaxo

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction This article showcases how ChatGPT can serve as an effective M&A consultant by demonstrating how it can be used to help develop a best practices-based M&A playbook. Developing an M&A playbook is typically a challenging and time-consuming task, regardless of whether it is done internally or with consultants.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a consultation paper on the CSDR penalty regime seeking input on amendments which may include cash penalties that increase with the length of the settlement fail.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Liquidnet has made three new hires into its European Execution & Quantitative Services (EQS) team as it seeks to grow its execution offering across the region, The TRADE can reveal. EQS advises Liquidnet’s buy-side members on topics including trade analytics, algorithmic strategies, and quantitative products and services.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 3, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed sweeping new Hart­-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) rules along with a new proposed HSR form that would completely change the HSR process.

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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. Meanwhile, T.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

David Wright has been named head of FX trading and distribution at MUFG after three years with the business. He joined the bank in 2021 as global head of e-FX having and previously served as a strategic transformation consultant at State Street.

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Global Banking & Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) -International Business Machines missed analysts’ estimates for third-quarter revenue on Wednesday, hurt by weakness in its consulting segment as businesses cut back on discretionary expenses, coupled with declines in the infrastructure business.

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The TRADE

JULY 16, 2024

With electronic equities trading continuing to rise, a notable proportion of US low-touch desk expect to expand their teams over the next 12-18 months, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. Almost 40% of respondents emphasised a strong interest in more innovative trading venues, with another 53% showing some interest.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Patric Okumi, Samuel Lowres Okumi joins Liquidnet multi-asset services team from TP ICAP Group, where he spent the last 11 years in broking and trading-related roles. He was also part of TP ICAPs equity trading desk before building out the single stock equity and ETF RFQ offering on Fusion, the firms electronic platform.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Axis Capital Markets has appointed Lewis Jones in an institutional sales and trading role, The TRADE can reveal. Elsewhere in his career, Jones was self-employed as an options trader at Delta Capital Management; a corporate broking consultant at Turner Pope Investments; and as a proprietary trader at Schneiders Trading Association.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Algorithmic Trading Awards. The winners of the Algorithmic Trading Awards will be based on performance in The TRADE’s Algorithmic Trading Survey 2023, which was conducted earlier in the year. Visit out event page for more information.

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Cisco: M&A

JULY 6, 2023

If you search the term, you will be barraged with consulting ads and explanations from trade publications on why driving custom cus… Read more on Cisco Blogs Have you heard the phrase “Meet your customers where they are?”

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The TRADE

MARCH 22, 2024

HSBC has appointed Matthew Stanton as managing director, head of equities sales trading for Americas. Stanton joins HSBC from Primary Portal, where he served as a sales consultant. Prior to that, he spent just over seven years at Barclays, most recently serving as managing director, head of cash sales trading, Americas.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. And will that mean that some of the privately held management consulting firms or other professional services companies will choose an IPO this year? There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the first batch of shortlists for the upcoming Leaders in Trading New York Awards ceremony set to take place in November. So, without further a due, it gives The TRADE great pleasure to announce the following awards shortlists for Leaders in Trading New York 2024!

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Outsourced Trading Awards, a new category set to be presented at our annual awards gala in November alongside our other prestigious awards. For more information and to secure your spot at the event, visit our event page.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Adaptive Financial Consulting has collaborated with regulated digital asset exchange Bullish to increase trading capacity and boost throughput as it looks to scale and meet growing business demand. The post Digital asset exchange Bullish taps Adaptive and Google Cloud to enhance trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

The past year has seen vast improvement across the algorithmic trading space when it came to hedge funds’ strategies, new data from The TRADE has found. The TRADE received a record number of responses to this year’s Algorithmic Trading Survey. The survey is accessible here.

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Francine Way

JULY 7, 2017

Each of these parties can be tasked with identifying potential acquisition targets; which themselves can be identified through trade shows, industry associations, online databases, customer interactions / introductions, discussions with end users, interviews with employees, and more. Consultants’ broad market coverage or industry expertise.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2024

You don’t want to see it [your trade] popping up on Twitter,” one market structure specialist told Coalition Greenwich. Elsewhere, increased concentration of equity trading volumes is being expedited by a continued transition of trading volumes to electronic execution. billion as investors’ commissions flowed to fewer brokers.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The issue is particularly pertinent given the upcoming shift to T+1 settlement in the US, meanwhile late last year the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation paper on the CSDR penalty regime seeking input on amendments which may include cash penalties that increase with the length of the settlement fail.

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The TRADE

JULY 26, 2024

Released on Friday, the watchdog’s new rule introduces a new payment option for research and follows an industry consultation period that began in April. ” The FCA’s new rules also mean firms will not have to disclose their top providers in terms of payment amount – something highlighted by participants in the consultation.

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The TRADE

MARCH 21, 2024

Aquis attributed the growth in market share to changes to its proprietary trading rule in September. In addition, an existing contract progressed from design and consultancy to exchange delivery stage,” Aquis said in its results this morning, adding that the division now has nine contracts which have recognised revenue. “In

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Next up in our introduction to the distinguished nominees for the Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards, we bring you the shortlist the Best Broker Electronic Trading Initiative. Jefferies Jefferies Electronic Trading (JET) offers algorithmic strategies and program trading across Europe, the US and Asia.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This will include futures and options markets in the US and Europe, alongside globally traded proprietary products including S&P 500 Index option and VIX franchises. Oliver Sung – previously head of North American execution consulting at Cboe – will replace Inzillo as interim head of North American equities.

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The TRADE

JULY 26, 2023

Amundi Asset Management’s execution subsidiary, Amundi Intermédiation, has onboarded the multi-asset FlexTRADER execution management system to consolidate its trading across asset classes. The post Amundi execution business onboards FlexTRADER EMS to consolidate trading across asset classes appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s average trade size for Asia Pacific in 2023 was $1.57 Asian markets are some of the most lit markets in the world, Liquidnet’s head of equities for Asia Pacific, Tristan Baldwin, told The TRADE, and expanding the VWAP Cross is aimed at supporting client demand for minimised impact amid this market structure.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What are the key intricacies when trading in Asia? I understand that there are a number of European HFTs [high frequency trading firms] and market makers that are moving into the Asian markets because profitability here has been through the roof. Here at Grasshopper, we have adapted around that in several ways.

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The TRADE

JULY 8, 2024

Nicol has been promoted to the role after initially joining GLMX as a consultant in December last year. Previously, Nicol served as chief executive and co-founder of corporate bond trading ecosystem LedgerEdge. Elsewhere in his tenure at IBM, Nicol was a senior consultant.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

The TRADE’s Rising Stars Awards return for their ninth year, recognising the brightest up-and-coming talent across trading and execution for 2023. In partnership with Instinet, nominations are now open for candidates currently working in a trading role with a buy-side firm. Further details of the event can be found here.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this role he built analytical tools, trading strategies and optimisation models. Elsewhere in his career, Raghavan spent three years at McKinsey & Company, most recently serving as a management consultant. The post Citadel names new head of American Treasury quants appeared first on The TRADE.

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CNBC: Investing

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Nishant Pant breaks down a trade in consulting stock Accenture.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 11, 2023

This week, the industry’s eyes turned to trading venues as two new M&A announcements were made. Trading venues, in particular, have viewed consolidation as a method to expand their offerings, allowing them to become a one-stop-shop for their clients. This has been something in the making for quite a while.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 8, 2023

But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title. We should also step back and define “commodities” and “commodity trading” since they’re massive areas.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has released a consultation report highlighting the need for policy adjustments to address liquidity strains in the non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) sector – such as hedge funds – particularly during periods of heightened margin and collateral calls amidst market stress.

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