Former Nomura MD named chairman of equity capital markets at Barclays
Ken Brown, formerly head of global finance for EMEA at Nomura, joined Barclays today as chairman of equity capital markets for Europe and the Middle East.
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Goldman Sachs global equities trading co-head Brian Levine to retire
Brian Levine to retire from Goldman Sachs this summer after 25 years with the US investment bank.
TradeTech 2019: The key takeaways
The rise of artificial intelligence and new data sets dominated discussions at this year’s conference, while Brexit casts a long shadow over future plans.
LCH appoints former Soc Gen, JPM post-trade head to lead equities
Former Societe Generale head of sales and relationship management appointed to lead equities business.
Invesco’s head of trading rules out outsourcing equities trading, saying ‘nobody can do it better than us’
Asset manager says its experience, technology and size mean that outsourcing the equities trading desk is not on its radar.
Industry slams regulatory ploy to shift trading volumes to lit venues
Market participants at TradeTech have agreed that trading volumes have failed to shift to lit venues under MiFID II, but the regulation has led to unintended positive developments in the form of periodic auctions.
Buy-side need to invest in alternative data to gain an informational edge
Speakers at this year's TradeTech conference laid out how buy-side firms can take advantage of untapped alternative data.
ELP SIs opening access to liquidity despite industry transparency issues
Market maker-run systematic internalisers are bedding in to market structures but transparency concerns are still lingering.
Demand for single-broker TCA dropping despite sell-side investment, says Citi market structure head
Despite buy-side citing use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) as a larger focus post-MiFID II, Citi's market structure head for EMEA says the bank is actually seeing the converse in action.
Diverse trading skill sets essential for the buy-side desk, says BlackRock’s head of trading
Building a flexible, diverse skill set on the trading desk is essential to adapting to evolving market conditions and growing at scale says Supurna VedBrat.