As outsourced trading gains traction, Claudia Preece delves into what factors make for success in the space, pinpointing some of the main elements influencing the future landscape. As ever-larger players continue to make real moves, costs rise, and expectations placed on providers increase, only those with truly effective offerings will reap success as consolidation continues.

Annabel Smith sits down with Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) multi-asset centralised dealing desk to explore its recent structural changes and the value of in-house data capabilities on the desk in light of the current trading environment.

As the industry continues to evolve at an ever-faster pace, spurred by technological innovation, the data revolution, and market structure developments, both traders and portfolio managers (PMs) are wearing increasingly more hats in their quest for success. Claudia Preece examines the current relationship between the two sides and the potential for converging roles in the future.

As cloud adoption picks up pace across the capital markets industry, Claudia Preece examines what leading market experts think about the current state of play and what the future holds. Cloud providers are banking on the fact that exchanges moving to the cloud will effectively “drag” the rest of their surrounding ecosystem along with them, asserts one market onlooker.

Finger of blame is being pointed in each direction between custodians, non-US traders and settlement system CLS over FX cut-offs, with last minute decisions and confusion meaning some asset managers are now left facing operational challenges, pre-funding trades and balancing settlement security with best execution obligations.

Annabel Smith sits down with the incoming global head of trading at Janus Henderson to explore what’s brought him to this inflection point in his career, his love of trading, and his soon to be predecessor Dan Royal’s succession plan as he looks to step back at the end of the year.

With data becoming unavoidably vital to the trading desk, Wesley Bray explores how traders are delving past traditional TCA and collaborating with data scientists on the desk to help gain a deeper understanding of market dynamics, in order to make better informed trading decisions.

Annabel Smith sits down with head of trading at activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners, Pete Papanichola, to explore his path to activist investing and the importance of keeping ESG investment initiatives commercial to ensure their continued success.

Annabel Smith sits down with the global equity trading team at Robeco to explore their global dynamic, the role of research on their trading desk and the race to stay innovative through better use of data and technology in the execution process.