Asset Classes

Appointment comes as the investment bank continues to focus on growing its market share across key asset classes.

As digital asset adoption accelerates, lessons from traditional markets, particularly around trust and interoperability, will be essential if tokenised markets are to scale successfully, said panellists speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference on Thursday. 

To ensure a smooth delivery of the enhancement, both firms are set to collaborate throughout 2026, with a focus on platform design, testing, migration and participant readiness. 

New hire spent 12 years at T. Rowe Price, specialising in EM local and developed market rates.  

New interfaces aim to give firms clearer visibility into clearing, settlement and post-trade activity. 

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) advocates for policy improvements and changes across the European investment management industry; members include firms such as BlackRock, Invesco, DWS and Fidelity International, among others. 

The past week was one for the books in terms of people moves, with a new buy-side head of ETF capital markets for EMEA and APAC, as well as senior positions across the sell-side spanning market structure, equities, rates and derivatives. 

New hire joins from Soros Fund Management, having served in various different roles over the past 14 years. 

As AI and technological transformations command an increasingly central role in the shift to continuous trading, panellists speaking at the TradingTech Summit on Thursday emphasised the importance of human presence on the desk in order to ensure a successful shift to these models.  

New hire will focus on Europe and APAC, supporting the firm’s plans to serve more clients across the regions; individual has previously held senior positions at Vanguard, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.