The TRADE announces Leaders in Trading 2024 award winners

The TRADE is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Leaders in Trading awards, with the recipients honoured at a ceremony held last night at The Savoy, London.

More than 300 industry leaders joined The TRADE in a sold-out room to recognise the year’s leading individuals and firms within the industry, with 39 awards handed out honouring the buy-side, sell-side, service providers, technology firms and venues.

Input for the coveted Buy-Side awards, awarded in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange, was opened to the industry after a lengthy period of industry consultation prior. This year, the highly anticipated award for Trader of the Year went to Laura Mould of M&G Investments. Keeping it within the family, M&G Investments also took home the award for Trading Desk of the Year.

Among the other buy-side winners, Schroders and BlackRock took home the award for Multi-Asset Trading Desk of the Year and Fixed Income Trading Desk of the Year, respectively. Meanwhile, in two new categories for 2024 Fidelity International received the award Foreign Exchange Trading Desk of the Year, while Man Group took home the award for Execution Analytics Team of the Year.

In another individual award recognition, Ed Wicks of Legal & General Investment Management, was honoured with the Buy-Side Market Structure Expert of the Year award.

This year’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement award for the buy-side was handed to Lombard Odier’s Stephen Grady, in recognition of his contributions to the industry, both on the buy- and sell-side, having spent four decades working in financial markets across the globe.

The Editors’ Choice categories are always highly competitive, and this year proved no exception. Across the 13 awards, this year’s winners – as judged by The TRADE’s editorial panel – were all worthy given their achievements over the last year.

In the trading venues arena, Liquidnet, ICE BondPoint and Bloomberg FXGO each took home Outstanding Trading Venue awards, while London Stock Exchange Group was crowned overall Outstanding Exchange Group.

big xyt claimed the award for Outstanding Market Data Services Provider – Equities, while Trading Technologies took home the same award but for Fixed Income. Elsewhere, FlexTrade collected the Outstanding Trading Technology Provider award.

Within the Algorithmic Trading and EMS categories – which are based on the results of The TRADE’s annual surveys – Virtu Financial took home multiple awards – namely, Best Access to Market and Best Dark Pool Capabilities. Elsewhere, Citi took home the Algorithmic Trading Award for Best Provider – Large Clients.

Meanwhile in the EMS category, Virtu Triton received three awards: Best User Experience, Best Provider – Large Clients and Best Provider – UK & Europe. Also in the category, LSEG TORA rook home the award for Best Market Access.

Last month, prior to the Leaders in Trading awards gala, The TRADE also recognised this year’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution in a standalone event. This list consisted of 25 of the buy-side’s up and coming talents of the future. The ceremony for the Rising Stars marked the tenth annual event, with many of the previous year’s winners now earning nods within the Leaders in Trading categories.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners: