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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Vincent Hall has joined Citi as an equity trader following two years at Citadel where he served in the same role. He returns to Citi after four years, having previously worked at the firm as associate vice president in emerging markets equity trading. Elsewhere in his career, Hall has also worked at BlackRock as an associate.

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MARCH 13, 2024

BTIG has 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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JULY 17, 2024

Citi has named a new head of electronic equity sales trading for the EMEA region, The TRADE can reveal. He joined the bank as a permanent fixture in 2016 as a graduate analyst in its markets division, later moving into equity sales trading in 2018.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

In the dynamic realm of the financial markets, the introduction of technology has proven to be a catalyst for transformative change, overhauling existing trading strategies. Among the wide range of advancements, algorithmic trading has revolutionised how financial instruments are bought and sold.

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JULY 23, 2024

Lara Jacobs has been appointed vice president – equities electronic trading coverage at JP Morgan following six years with Liquidnet. She most recently served as head of international client trading, EMEA. Prior to this she worked as a market structure and strategy analyst before moving onto a role as equity trader.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jonathan Tse has been appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS, as he moves over from Credit Suisse. The post Credit Suisse electronic trading expert transfers to UBS appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Order and/or execution management systems (OEMS) Kicking off this whistle-stop summary as the number one most impactful innovation in the industry is the order and/or execution management system (OEMS) – the beating heart of trading desks around the world. CLS Coming in at number three is the multi-currency settlement system, CLS.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Over half (54%) of buy-side respondents say that getting proper coverage from their brokers is one of their biggest pain points in their daily equity trading workflow, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. A quarter said they prefer a one-touch/hybrid coverage model, while 26% said it depends on the broker.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 27, 2024

Morgan Stanley has appointed Pankaj Dhake as a new electronic sales trader, based in Mumbai. Dhake joins Morgan Stanley from CLSA, where he spent nearly seven years, most recently as an electronic sales trader. Elsewhere in his career, Dhake served as a global equity derivatives trader at UBS.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2024. Last year, Goldman Sachs’ chief operating officer for EMEA equity execution services Eleanor Beasley took home the Industry Person of the Year Award in a landslide victory.

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JULY 26, 2024

Robert Whelan has joined Citadel as equity trader following almost eight years at Pictet Asset Management. Whelan joined Pictet AM as an equity trader back in 2016. Prior to that, he worked at Morgan Stanley, initially joining as an electronic trading associate before going on to a role as equity sales trader.

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MARCH 5, 2024

You don’t want to see it [your trade] popping up on Twitter,” one market structure specialist told Coalition Greenwich. However, Continental Europe saw an increase in high-touch usage by the same margin, with e-trading on the up and 45% of their flow expected to be through algos.

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MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London. Paul Battams was named head of international equity trading at BlackRock following 23 years with the firm.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

JonesTrading has deployed FlexTrade Systems’ FlexOMS as the new sell-side trading platform for its equities and electronic trading businesses. The FlexOMS solution will also serve as the full-service technology platform for JonesTrading’s outsourced trading offering.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Market participants need global data-driven content to enhance their own products and gain deeper understanding of market shifts and liquidity dynamics, and to identify opportunities for better trading outcomes. You will also continue to see a push to modernise the loan market, whether through digitised loan data or electronic trading.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BlackRock’s head of electronic trading and market structure for EMEA, Daniel Mayston, has left the asset management giant, The TRADE can reveal. The TRADE understands it is outside of trading. His responsibilities will be transferred to other members of the global trading team at BlackRock, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

APRIL 11, 2024

Euronext has appointed former Credit Suisse sales trader Nathalie Ruiz as head of continental equity sales. 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).

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is set to expand access to US equity options with connectivity and market data support for the recently launched MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange. TNS will offer users market data and order routing access in an ultra-low-latency trading environment.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The BlackRock EMEA equity trading team picked up The TRADE’s highly coveted Trading Desk of the Year, Long-Only award at the Leaders in Trading 2023 event in November. And that is exactly what the London-based trading team embodies. Every day is different, and markets are evolving at a phenomenal pace.

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JULY 31, 2023

HSBC Global Asset Management has named Aaron Waters head of European equity trading, following three and a half years as head of equity trading at the bank, The TRADE can reveal. Waters has previously held senior positions at AllianceBernstein (AB), most recently as an equity trader based in Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Portfolio trading as a concept has exploded in the last few years, egged on by market conditions and volatility brought on by the pandemic and other macroeconomic factors. Portfolio trades have historically helped many institutions to move big blocks of risk. billion in total portfolio trading volume in Q3 2023, up 11.1%

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

UK-based boutique fixed income trading desk BlueBay Asset Management is beginning a new chapter in its life. The move has opened up swathes of synergy opportunities for the pure fixed income asset manager, with its traders now working directly alongside RBC BlueBay Asset Management’s equities desk.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

As equity traders continue to seek ever more innovative ways to bolster their offerings, the rise of Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) has followed – currently executing around 16% of all US equity volume. Speaking to the motivators, one surveyed sell-side head asserted: “The buy side wants to see us trading there.

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The TRADE

JULY 6, 2023

RBC’s co-head of European electronic sales and trading, Bianca Gould, is set to leave the bank after almost three years as part of streamlining measures across the business. The post RBC’s electronic trading co-head Bianca Gould to depart as part of streamlining across the bank appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Ashley Watson has joined Panmure Liberum as an electronic equity trader following five years at Mirabaud Group. Most recently, Watson served as an equity trader at Mirabaud, responsible for executing equities and ETFs across both high and low touch. Bernstein, also working as an equity trader.

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The TRADE

JULY 15, 2024

Dom Lowres has joined Investec as head of electronic trading and execution, following almost 17 years at Liberum. Most recently, he served as head of execution strategy, which followed an eight-year stint as head of trading. Elsewhere in his tenure, Lowres held a pan European trading position.

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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. We couldn’t continue to do what we were doing manually in an electronic world.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Global electronic broker Interactive Brokers has added European stock options and European index futures and options through Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX). Interactive Brokers’ clients will have access to more than 300 stock options, through CEDX, based on European cominies from 14 countries and European equity index derivatives.

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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 7, 2023

Outsourced trading solutions firm, Tourmaline Partners, has hired three new seasoned financial markets executives as managing directors to help strengthen its global trading capabilities, The TRADE can reveal.  It could be said that Europe was slow to adopt our version of supplemental trading.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BNY Mellon has announced the launch of a new digital direct-to-custody trading solution for clients’ investment and cash management needs. Named NEXENMarkets, the platform is designed to enable clients to place equity, ETF and US Treasury orders directly from their accounts.

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The TRADE

MAY 29, 2023

Prior to joining UBS, he spent eight and a half years at Barclays in electronic equities roles, four and a half years at Plato Partnership as a co-founder and co-chairman and six years at Goldman Sachs in an electronic trading role. Previously in his career, he also held analyst roles at Citi and Logica.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cantor Fitzgerald’s head of equities for Asia has left the firm to join emerging markets investment bank Arqaam as its new head of equities execution services. Arqaam confirmed that Shalabi will have a specific focus on enhancing the firm’s electronic trading capabilities as well.

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