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.
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 chief executive at a Singapore-based hedge fund.
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.
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.
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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.
The move is set to connect portfolio activity, pricing, and execution more efficiently, according to BlackRock.
Experts from the buy- and sell-side speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) on Wednesday shared their insights and practical advice on how best to build a global execution framework amid the “new world” of fixed income markets today.
The TRADE catches up with Stephanie Creswell, fixed income trader at Vanguard, following her panel at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit, to explore how systematic execution frameworks can improve consistency and reduce slippage, as well as where trader judgement still adds the most value as automation ramps up.
Twelve major data vendors are preparing new pricing structures for 2027; “The frustration is when clients are effectively forced into those models because legacy products are being replaced, leaving them with higher costs whether they want the new functionality or not,” Ninety One’s Jane Fenton tells The TRADE.
The solution is designed for multiple asset classes including digital assets and equities and allows investors to gain market themes and asset class exposure without having to trade underlying instruments directly.
As the volume of data and technology booms across the industry, panellists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Tuesday emphasised that traders are increasingly battling issues with implementation rather than selection when it comes to their technology providers.
Stratos Group, the Jefferies-owned parent of FXCM, is set to sell all of its assets and operations to the online broker, according to a SEC regulatory filing.
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