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BNY Mellon launches new FX platform to help manage execution and access to price transparency

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BNY Mellon has launched a new foreign exchange (FX) platform, meeting client demands to manage execution across their entire portfolio and access improved price transparency. BNY Mellon stated that the new platform will also help clients navigate the industry transition to T+1 settlement.

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Manulife Investment Management to acquire alternative credit manager, CQS

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Manulife Investment Management is set to acquire multi-sector alternative credit manager CQS for an undisclosed sum with the deal set to close in early 2024. Following close, Manulife is set to align the CQS brand with its own as a co-branded logo – Manulife | CQS Investment Management.

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Federated Hermes’ head of Europe quits investment management after 35 years to pursue technology venture

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According to an update on his social media, Rutherford is departing the investment management industry after 35 years to take on a more active role in Smartframe Technologies, a venture which he has been chairman of for six years. Smartframe uses streaming technology to offer better control around publishing images online. “I

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Candriam expands partnership with parent company New York Life Investments to break into the US offshore market

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Following the expansion of the partnership, the pair will offer solutions and services to non-US resident investors who invest through US intermediaries. Investors in the US offshore market will be able to access Candriam’s existing UCITS funds that cover US high yield corporate bonds, emerging market equity and debt, and thematic strategies.

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Trader of the Year Hedge Fund: Conversant Capital’s David Alfred

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I spent a lot of time in my sell-side days working as a conduit between capital markets and the origination desk within investment banking as a bridge into the public side, covering hedge funds and multi strategy investment managers for anything equity-linked and credit with a cross-asset mindset. We are nimble and agile.

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BofE launches stress testing ‘exercise’ for major banks and buy-side to prevent future bonds collapses

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As part of the new system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise, participants including major banks, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds will be asked to evaluate the impact of “severe but plausible” stress including what actions they might individually take in that scenario, with a focus on the UK markets.

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People Moves Monday: A series of senior appointments

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Prior to that, he spent six and a half years at State Street Global Markets in a portfolio solutions role. Previously, Williams served as an investment account manager at Northern Trust. Elsewhere in his career, Ortega served as European head of emerging market sales at Santander Corporate and Investment Banking.

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