Buy-Side

‘Too many are suffering in silence’ – buy-side traders share their insight on the importance of prioritising mental health in order to ensure ‘lasting success’

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.

Nasdaq launches new AI-ready data infrastructure aimed at the buy-side

“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. 

J O Hambro head of trading departs

Individual is leaving the firm after seven years, The TRADE has learnt; he was promoted to the position in 2023. 

Foreign exchange: The linchpin between asset classes

Annabel Smith sits down with head of foreign exchange trading at T. Rowe Price, Toby Baker, to unpack why he chose a career in FX, the asset class’ role in the wider markets and the innovations he expects to make waves on the trading desk in the near future. 

The Big Interview: Khursheda Fazylova

Claudia Preece sits down with Khursheda Fazylova, fixed income trader at Janus Henderson Investors, to unpack her journey to the trading desk and the important lessons learnt, how the Janus Henderson fixed income desk has handled the macro volatility so far in 2025, and what the future outlook is for traders’ day-to-day as the work-life balance conversation ramps up.