According to BlackRock’s co-head of ETF markets and investments, Samara Cohen, traders are pointing portfolio managers towards ETFs in a bid to add fixed income exposure and replace derivatives.
New head of equity index product for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has spent the last 14 years at BlackRock in institutional and index equity focused roles.
The asset management giant will access the software through an integration with its flagship Aladdin platform.
The fully electronic institutional SOFR swap spread trade between JP Morgan and BlackRock took place on the Tradeweb swap execution facility.
Head of EMEA equity trading at BlackRock, Paul Battams, sits down with Hayley McDowell to discuss evolving market structure trends and his top priorities as a buy-side trading leader at the world’s largest asset manager.
Under a long-term partnership, BlackRock will acquire and integrate Baringa Partners’ Climate Change Scenario Model into its Aladdin Climate technology.
Through the integration, mutual clients on BlackRock’s Aladdin platform can factor margin-based analytics into their pre- and post-trade decision making for derivatives.
Through the expanded partnership, mutual clients can use the OEMS capabilities on the Aladdin platform from BlackRock alongside FlexTrade’s EMS capabilities.
New Diversity Dealer initiative is aimed at expanding credit trading among minority, women and veteran owned broker dealers on the MarketAxess platform.
Aladdin Data Cloud from BlackRock will allow investment managers to combine Aladdin and non-Aladdin data via a single platform.