The EU financial regulator has published responses to its call for evidence, revealing that the industry is firmly behind the use of periodic auctions.
Three years after joining Legal & General Investment Management to run its equities trading, Ed Wicks now heads up the firm’s global trading operations, placing emphasis on the benefits of incremental improvement. Wicks speaks to John Brazier about the changes he has made during his time with the asset manager and what the future holds for the head of trading role.
Geraldine Buckingham succeeds Ryan Stork as head of BlackRock Asia Pacific, as Stork is appointed deputy global COO.
The TRADE profiles its Rising Stars of 2018, concluding with Jack Boland, Tim Miller, Andrea Bradshaw, Richard Pinnington and Edouard Bugeaud.
ICE Data Services is now BlackRock’s benchmark provider for four of the asset manager’s fixed income ETFs.
The ETF platform will be connected to BondPoint, TMC Bonds and ICE Credit Trade and is set to begin operations in 2019.
New futures contracts are expected to launch in Summer this year and will be listed and traded on Cboe Futures Exchange.
Georgina Fogo will join Janus Henderson as chief risk officer in July this year following the retirement of David Kowalski.
Fixed income ETFs have witnessed unprecedented growth in recent years, spearheading the rise of the overall ETF market. Hayley McDowell asks why the product is so attractive to investors and what the future holds for the asset class.
BlackRock will use MarketAxess for Asian credit trading after signing up to Open Trading for US and European credit trading.