Panellists speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Juan-les-Pins on Tuesday argued that automation should be approached as an ‘assessment management’ business – with human intervention remaining on top.
Eligible symbols can now trade in sessions before and after the core trading day, with the exchange set to take a similar approach to equities later this year.
The integration will enhance the buy-side firm’s investment decisions and portfolio offerings and marks the latest asset manager to select SimCorp’s institutional capabilities this year.
Europe has many of the market structure foundations needed to drive greater retail participation. As investor engagement continues to grow, we need to build on those strengths through targeted reforms and initiatives that remove barriers to pan-European retail investment, writes Alex Dalley, head of European equities at Cboe Global Markets.
All-star line-up set for The TRADE’s ‘Building the digital asset ecosystem: From issuance to settlement’ webinar’, in partnership with Tradeweb. Experts will unpack how this burgeoning landscape is evolving, and how traditional finance is bridging the gap with the digital asset space.
London-based hire will cover futures and options sales at the bank and also spent 15 years at UBS earlier in his career.
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Cboe’s C1 exchange is also currently the only US options trading venue already trading index options outside regular hours.
The new offering – IDBX on the move – allows participants to access to the venue even away from their desks.
The transaction is expected to complete in H1 2027, and expands Tradeweb’s offering across the bond lifecycle, as well as bolstering the firm’s future growth outlook in US credit and its multi-asset class platform.
The offering will provide expanded opportunities for clients to respond to market developments, manage positions and deploy capital, as well as cross-margin RWA swap exposures across other asset classes.
The past week saw a run of senior hires across the buy- and sell-side, from a MENA FX trading leadership appointment in Dubai and an FX options hire in London to a new managing director at a Singapore-based hedge fund.
London-based appointment brings prior buy-side to the new role, and has also previously worked at firms including Jupiter AM, Manulife Investment Management and BNP Paribas AM.
With the UK bond consolidated tape bedding in and Europe’s nearing launch, industry leaders speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit this week have warned firms banking on a free ride that they risk being left “blind” to the market.
The investment will also enable Reactive Markets to expand its global offering and build out its teams across London, New York and Singapore.
Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Wednesday, asset managers urged caution, stressing that “AI is effectively a tool while automation is an objective” and that the industry must balance AI adoption with robust governance and human judgement in the face of unpredictable outputs.
Liquidity provision has been on the up in fixed income markets, however, as more options to access liquidity open up, choice also comes with challenge, agreed Fidelity’s Lars Salmon and BlackRock’s Nisha Pindoria Brown speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Wednesday.
The TRADE catches up with Hiroyuki Higuchi, head of fixed income and currency at MUFG Asset Management, following his keynote speech at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit, to explore how geopolitics is reshaping fixed income strategy, how the desk separates short-term noise from structural shifts, and the risks most likely to drive volatility over the next 12 months.
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