Buy-Side

Through the expanded partnership, mutual clients can use the OEMS capabilities on the Aladdin platform from BlackRock alongside FlexTrade’s EMS capabilities.

Among the buy-side to implement Bloomberg’s solutions were Lombard Odier Asset Management, Union Investment, Global X Japan and Harvest Fund Management.

Sandro Pierri becomes chief executive officer of BNP Asset Management after previously serving as deputy chief executive and global head of client group for the firm. 

New Diversity Dealer initiative is aimed at expanding credit trading among minority, women and veteran owned broker dealers on the MarketAxess platform.

New research dashboard by Substantive Research will offer asset managers insights on pricing from research providers, sector coverage and investment in analyst teams.

Ahead of TradeTech, global head of trading at Legal & General Investment Management, Ed Wicks, gives his thoughts on some of the hottest topics discussed at TradeTech Europe this year, including remote working, automation and outsourced trading. 

Ahead of TradeTech, head of global equity trading at PIMCO, Eden Simmer, tells The TRADE that a hybrid trading desk composed of traders with remote and physical office presence can offer a number of advantages.   

Ahead of TradeTech, European head of equity trading at JP Morgan Asset Management, Neil Joseph, tells The TRADE that automation helped his trading desk navigate a 40% increase in volumes in 2020.

UBS Asset Management’s Lynn Challenger told TradeTech that Europe needs to focus less on primary exchange bid-asks spreads in an increasingly internalised equities market.