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JULY 21, 2023

Axes have typically been used by traders looking to execute larger or block trades which they are not comfortable executing electronically. Over the years, buy-side use of axes has evolved significantly, with portfolio managers increasingly using them as well.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Alex Livingstone, formerly head of trading for ETFs and FX at Titan Asset Management, joined Titan Investment Solutions as a junior portfolio manager and trader. He has also worked for CrossTower and ISE Holdings as global head of product strategy and product management director, respectively.

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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. He began his career as a junior portfolio manager at RSA covering US equities.

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The TRADE

JULY 27, 2023

The asset manager will use Bloomberg’s order and investment management solution AIM in connection with its portfolio analytics, order management and trading compliance activities. Earlier this month , Ace Capital became the latest buy-side firm to adopt the offering for electronic communications monitoring.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Miller is a Bloomberg veteran having spent over 20 years at the company, holding several senior positions, including: global head of sales and account management (global markets electronic trading); global head of fixed income, currencies, commodities electronic sales; and global head fixed income electronic trading sales.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

One of the benefits of growth in FX clearing includes developments in financial resource management tools, said Coalition Greenwich, further highlighting that increased clearing is set to affect how and with whom the buy-side trades.

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MAY 28, 2024

Market fragmentation has increased over recent years and led to the dispersion of trading activity across primary exchanges, lit and dark multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), banks’ systematic internalisers (SIs) and electronic liquidity providers’ (ELP SIs).

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JULY 4, 2024

A recent Coalition Greenwich report on fixed income trading technology confirmed this trend, highlighting two main contributing factors – the readiness of the asset class and improved attitudes towards electronic trading. Buy-side users of EMS have until 12 July to provide feedback on their vendors for the 2024 edition.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

She has been with State Street since 2000, beginning as a relationship manager. As head of State Street Global Advisors Europe – her current role – she is responsible for the firm’s EU-based portfolio management, distribution, product development, fund management and operations.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Prior to this appointment, she spent three years as head of EMEA EFX sales, bank sales, platform sales, custody FX and cross border payments for FIs at Citi, and before that served as head of EMEA electronic FX sales. Previously, Latif was co-head EMEA electronic FX sales at Goldman Sachs for eight years.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfolio managers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Raymond joined LGIM as its head of credit trading in 2019 when the asset manager was undergoing the process of splitting up its portfolio management and trading capabilities. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The trader of today has to be able to distil a vast amount of disparate information and filter it in a bespoke fashion to the needs of individual portfolio management teams. That requires the ability to utilise many different execution methods, be it electronic, RFS, voice, bartering, understanding the mechanics of algos.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beginning her career on the buy-side at boutique asset manager Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment portfolio analyst in London in 1986, Ruffles has seen the markets through several highs and lows. When I joined State Street in 2004, we were electronically trading then. “In asks Ruffles. Absolutely yes. Ruffles says.

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APRIL 17, 2024

“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfolio management at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. However, DMA is the process of directly connecting electronically to an exchange in order to trade on exchange securities without using a broker or intermediary.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfolio managers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships. However, despite this, Joe Collery, head of trading at Comgest endorsed a measured approach whilst speaking at TradeTech earlier this week.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

We can now RFQ dual currency bonds, with both price and FX rates streamed electronically. We have all-to-all trading which greatly increases liquidity channels. Even price discovery is helped now, with broker runs and axes being streamed into our OMS. Of course, not everything has moved to electronic trading.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

“There is a structural case for emerging markets, and it is set to remain a core part of the fixed income opportunity set,” asserts John Espinosa, head of sovereigns and portfolio manager for Nuveen’s global fixed income team. “It We’ve also seen an increase in portfolio trading activity in the market.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Axes are no longer the preserve of the trading desk at asset managers. The use of this data by the portfolio management function means they can better represent their investment process by taking liquidity into account. Dealers still need to get better at distributing their data and managing where it goes to.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Electronic trading capabilities have led to a major shift away from voice trading, and this has changed the role that counterparties play when they work together. With electronic trading comes the added benefit of requiring less time to be spent on small trades.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Byron Cooper-Fogarty, chief operating officer at Neptune, at the time highlighted that “this has been a client driven addition, as buy-side traders and portfolio managers continue to ask for high quality data from liquidity providers such as Mizuho.”

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JULY 5, 2023

” or “give me a breakdown of value by portfolio manager” Taking a step further, orders can be grabbed to prep or allocated internally across the desk. From a fixed-income perspective, bilateral electronic connections are finally becoming commonplace.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

If a portfolio manager wants to execute a trade days after such an event, they need to understand that liquidity may be reduced, and they must be confident in their strategy if they’re willing to pay more in the bid-offer spread.” This context is crucial for our day-to-day operations.

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MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. They’re built for slightly different purposes.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

This has forced prime brokers to focus more on risk management and diversification of their client portfolios with increased regulatory pressures.” The market volatility has certainly been a defining feature of the year, for both clients and providers, and gave rise to opportunities for certain strategies, while costing others dearly.

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JULY 17, 2023

On the other hand, foreign exchange – the largest financial market in the world – benefits from the fact that trading is not limited to one central location but is instead conducted between participants by phone and electronic communication networks (ECNs) in a wide range of markets globally. Already in EMEA, we have six valid trading days.

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