The past week saw appointments across multi-asset dealing, municipal trading, e-trading and fixed income. 

With the launch of SuperBlock Matching, Liquidnet aims to enhance the technology available to facilitate exceptionally large or illiquid trades.

The TRADE sits down with John Kain, head of worldwide financial services market development at AWS to discuss the continuing growth of cloud adoption across the trading world, unpacking the evolution of its use in key strategies, market readiness, and how things are set to continue to develop going forward.

Named FIX Wizard, the new offering aims to address shortcomings of LLMs and to provide an AI assistant that reasons logically.

In late 2023, The TRADE and Optiver partnered on the buy-side European cash equity trading survey, uncovering key trends in the space through original research, delving into: market structure, real time transaction cost analysis (TCA), buy-side broker relationships, data costs, consolidated tape plans and more.

New appointed spent almost five years at Credit Suisse, as well as previously holding positions at Deutsche Bank, Citi and Lehman Brothers.

Incoming multi-asset dealer had been with Odey Asset Management for over 16 years after also previously spending a year and a half at State Street.

With the topic of data becoming increasingly central to market developments, The TRADE sat down with Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX, to unpack the role of data in how trading strategies are evolving, how the buy-side is preparing for a data-driven future, and the regulatory considerations at the fore of the industry’s attention.

The association has highlighted a portion of trading that it claims is “wholly unreported”, insisting that if said segment was included in the overall picture, then the reality of European volumes would be far more positive.

The three additions join the growing list of global members at the non-profit industry initiative aimed at improving ESG measures in the trading industry.

BMLL and Quanthouse partnership aims to combine real time and historical data to support the buy-side with understanding market behaviour and testing investment strategies in equities and futures.