People Moves Round Up: MarketAxess, MUFG and Royal London Asset Management
The past week saw appointments across emerging markets, foreign exchange, equities and distribution.
The past week saw appointments across emerging markets, foreign exchange, equities and distribution.
Incoming individual has previously held positions at Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mid-X will provide full anonymity when matching session at the mid-point price and is set to limit information leakage with size only revealed when trades are complete.
Incoming individual has been with MarketAxess for almost five years, having also previously served at JDX Consulting.
The three venues made reference to “various developments” across the market over recent months which led to the breakdown of the partnership.
Initial focus is on the local currency markets of Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa.
Transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter; follows first client algorithmic trade in US credit on multi-protocol automated execution solution Adaptive Auto-X.
Move comes as part of MarketAxess’ continued push towards zero touch trading; next phase of the Adaptive Auto-X pilot has also been announced, which will provide increased liquidity-seeking strategies.
Head of EMEA and APAC and chief executive UK at MarketAxess Christophe Roupie sits down with The TRADE to explore fixed income sentiment and the role the market backdrop is playing in its evolution.
The move comes two weeks after MarketAxess confirmed its JV with Bloomberg and Tradeweb to become the fixed income consolidated tape provider in the EU.