The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kerim Acanal, global head of emerging markets, Tradeweb The request-for-market (RFM) protocol will continue to be the next frontier for electronic trading in emerging markets. In today’s ever-changing financial landscape, RFM allows clients to not reveal the direction of the trade, therefore minimising the footprint of their transaction.

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OfficeHours

MAY 16, 2023

Hedge funds are significant players in financial markets given the size of their capital bases and the frequency of their trading. as of the end of 2020, hedge funds managed approximately $3.6 One widely cited estimate is that hedge funds account for around 5-6% of total equity trading volume in the US.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched the first actively managed corporate and municipal target maturity bond ETFs in the US market. The suite consists of 14 actively managed target maturity ETFs with various maturity years ranging from 2026 to 2034. The suite is made up of both corporate bond and municipal bond ETFs.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Euronext’s Anthony Attia Trading in the new options is powered by Euronext’s Optiq trading platform, which offers access to a large and diverse pool of liquidity. Clearing will take place through Euronext Clearing, offering risk management and portfolio-wide margin efficiencies.

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The TRADE

JUNE 4, 2024

Surveyed risk professionals were nearly split in their responses to feeling either confident or somewhat confident with their risk management processes during normal market conditions. Only 2% of surveyed risk professionals said they were not prepared at all.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Cboe Global Markets announced that its new Cboe S&P 500 Variance Futures are expected to begin trading on Monday 23 September on the Cboe Futures Exchange. Cboe Global Markets added that the contracts will quote and trade directly in variance units, offering a simplified approach to managing and trading variance exposure.

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Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The World Trade Organization (WTO ) plays a pivotal role in shaping the global economic landscape. From GATT to WTO The WTO, born out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) , has been pivotal since its inception in 1995. GATT’s initial role was to regulate international trade post-WWII.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2024

With the amount of US Treasury clearing activity processed through FICC expected to rise by $4 trillion daily following the SEC’s expanded clearing mandate which will be implemented in 2025 and 2026, DTCC’s calculator will be a key tool for firms to determine VaR and potential margin obligations for any simulated portfolio.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Read more: Fireside Friday with… Morgan Stanley’s Maria Salamanca Mejia Previously in his career, McMahon worked as a centralised dealer at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, working on the multi-asset global trading desk. The post CLSA appoints ex Morgan Stanley as algorithmic sales trader appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 14, 2024

When thinking about best execution in the derivative space it is critical to consider all the inputs that go into measuring the outcome for the portfolio. When dealing with clearing and margin this data can vary significantly from one portfolio to another which can also add an additional layer of complexity for block trades.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “In today’s complex and fast-paced investment landscape, real-time performance attribution can provide transparency and clarity regarding the drivers of financial returns, particularly in portfolio construction and active risk management,” said Lars Ole Hansen, global product manager at SimCorp.

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The TRADE

MARCH 25, 2024

Head of SIX Swiss Exchange, Christian Reuss marked his last day at the trading venue as he moves onto pastures new. Reuss had been with the trading venue for just over 15 years, originally joining in 2009 as chief executive of a joint venture named Scoach, in partnership with Deutsche Börse.

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The TRADE

MAY 20, 2024

The development coincides with the latest enhancements applicable to the Northbound Swap Connect scheme, which commence today and are introduced by China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), Shanghai Clearing House, and OTC Clearing Hong Kong.

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2024

BlackRock’s Aladdin collected the Outstanding Trading Technology Provider award at The TRADE’s 2023 Leaders in Trading awards in London last November. The post BNY and BlackRock collaborate on front-to-back mandate with AIA appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 8, 2024

“Expanding our engagement with Bloomberg as our technology partner has enabled us to streamline our investment management and operations workflows,” said Alexander Mertz, chief executive of BayernInvest. “It The post Bloomberg buy-side solutions adopted by BayernInvest to support workflows appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

TS Imagine and Cassini Systems have today entered a strategic partnership, with Cassini’s intelligent analytics across over the counter (OTC) and exchange traded derivatives (ETD) products now available via TS Imagine’s offering, The TRADE can reveal.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

London-based fintech C8 Technologies is set to launch an FX hedging platform which employs systemic trading models to help businesses manage their currency exposures. Jonathan Webb, former head of FX strategy at Jefferies, manages the C8 Hedge platform.

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2024

Read more – Artificial Intelligence in fixed income: A paradigm shift Chin has held a range of leadership roles in quantitative research, risk management and portfolio management at AB, both in New York and London, since joining the firm in 1997. As part of his new appointment, Chin will be based in New York.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 1, 2023

ICE RMA – part of the ICE Bonds’ suite of trading protocols – is used in dealer-to-dealer fixed income trading. Speaking to The TRADE, he explained: “We heard from our partners that they wanted a strong competitor in this space and nobody had yet been able to step [into] that capacity. 

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The TRADE

JULY 12, 2023

LCH – part of the post-trade division of London Stock Exchange Group – has announced that Barclays and Barclays Ireland are now live as clearing brokers at CDSClear. LCH also announced that its 24-hour foreign exchange clearing service, ForexClear, cleared the first NDF trade for Axis Bank – where Societe Generale acted as clearing broker.

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The TRADE

JUNE 21, 2023

“Certain technologies around margin transparency and particularly the advent of portfolio margining across the board, will be a very positive element and will enable people to be more resilient going forward,” said Chris Rhodes, president of ICE Futures Europe. Risk is back.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The lack of regulated trading venues is materially hampering the growth of the crypto derivatives trading market,” said Jeremy Punnett, M&G portfolio manager. ” The post M&G Investments leads $30 million Series B funding round for GFO-X appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

LCH – part of the post-trade division of London Stock Exchange Group – has announced that UOB (United Overseas Bank) has joined both LCH SwapClear and LCH ForexClear as a direct clearing member. The post UOB goes live as clearing member for LCH appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How has the hiring process for a trading desk changed over the last five years? For most of my career in credit trading, the majority of traders have been accounting and finance or economics majors. When I look down my trading desk right now, every team member is coding in Python.

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Peak Frameworks

MAY 17, 2023

Consider you have ten potential investment opportunities, and you want to diversify your portfolio by selecting three. Using the combination formula , you can calculate the number of different possible portfolios as follows: 10! / (3!(10 10 - 3)!) = 120 different portfolios. Consider an investor with a portfolio of 15 stocks.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As trading of these assets has become easier and market conditions are predicted to fall in line, the industry has seen a swathe of new EM-focused hires, increased attention paid to developing markets’ performance, and enhanced offerings from providers.

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The TRADE

MAY 30, 2023

In his new role, Hoong will provide technical account management and support to clients in Hong Kong. This specifically relates to: trading, portfolio management, and risk management. The post TS Imagine expands APAC team with appointments from Enfusion appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 7, 2023

The survey also found that AI adoption appeared more prominent in the front-office, while middle- and back-office functions lagged behind, with only 22% of AI deployment in trade execution. Looking at the numbers, there was not a huge divergence between regions in the approach to outsourcing trading and execution operations.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 23, 2024

The shortening of settlement cycles across markets and asset classes, combined with increasing trade volatility, is creating new pressures on manual operational processes for both buy- and sell-side participants across multiple trade lifecycle functions. AI has the potential to transform all stages of the trade lifecycle.

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The TRADE

JULY 8, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, left the asset manager after 14 years. According to an update on his social media, Mair joined hedge fund and systematic trading platform Schonfeld as an equity trader dealing with long and short strategies. As part of his new appointment, Chin will be based in New York.

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Peak Frameworks

AUGUST 15, 2023

By implementing hedging techniques, professionals can minimize risk exposure and secure their portfolios. For example, an investor holding a portfolio of technology stocks may purchase put options to protect against potential downside risks in the market.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ryan O’Connor has left Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is set to join ETF provider Global X ETFs as chief executive on 8 April. He most recently served as global head of ETF product, having initially joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management back in 2017 to build out the US fund strategist model portfolio business.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

Trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine has added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers. The network allows buy-side clients to access trading opportunities and liquidity sources.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RBC appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Elsewhere in his career, Chalkley served as a European government bond, inflation and absolute return fund manager at BlackRock.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

Added to that, you also have the globalisation and connectivity as a result of technology – as technology is embraced and spreads, trading strategies and market participants alter which demonstrates a direct correlation between the growth of markets and liquidity pools. Another relevant factor is market infrastructure upgrades.

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The TRADE

MAY 1, 2024

But running through the Brighton born and bred Papanichola’s veins is an activist streak that has continued to influence his decisions and shape the course of his career to date, ultimately leading him to his current role as head of trading at London-based activist hedge fund, Bluebell Capital Partners.

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