BlackRock goes live on Axoni blockchain network for equity swaps
The asset management giant will access the software through an integration with its flagship Aladdin platform.
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.
Sustainable investing analytics will be added to Aladdin after BlackRock took minority stake in data science firm Clarity AI.
Upon launching Aladdin Climate for measuring climate risk, BlackRock has also expanded the platform’s ESG data via new partnerships with Refinitiv and Sustainalytics.