Natasha Cocksedge catches up with Ed Wood, fixed income trader at Ninety One, at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam, to explore liquidity management, the most impactful technological innovations, and what’s to come in 2026.
Although the technology exists for increased digitisation in the primary market, pain points persist, affirmed Cathy Gibson, global head of trading at Ninety One, speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS).
Firms should not over-rely on automation and electronification, to avoid errors and under-staffed trading desks, said panellists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
To gain the best liquidity provision, the buy-side needs to evaluate their needs and communicate these to a variety of providers to optimise liquidity selection, said panellists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) on Wednesday.
In honour of world mental health day, The TRADE takes a sneak peak at the Buy-side Trading Community’s (BTC) 2025 benchmarking survey, shining a light on traders’ perspective on mental health, highlighting where and how progress could be made when it comes to processes across the trading sphere.
“Institutional teams are sitting on a wealth of data, but too often it’s locked behind manual processes and fragmented systems [...] It’s about giving distribution teams the intelligence they need, when and where they need it,” Nasdaq’s Daniel Brickhouse tells The TRADE.
Full gallery from The TRADE's 11th annual Rising Stars of Trading and Execution ceremony from 8 October at One Moorgate Place.
Individual is leaving the firm after seven years, The TRADE has learnt; he was promoted to the position in 2023.
Individual won The TRADE’s Trader of the Year (hedge fund) award in 2020.
Market structure impacts and the potential for too much AI dependency were highlighted as a key are of focus for speakers on the algo panel at TradeTech FX 2025 on Wednesday.