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1 day ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Miami International Holdings’ (MIH) acquisition of The International Stock Exchange Group (TISE) – via its wholly owned subsidiary MIH East Holdings - has come into effect. The initial agreement on a recommended cash offer for MIH was reached in March 2025. The deal, valued at £70.4 million, will see MIH acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of TISE not already owned by MIH East Holdings.
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2 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Citi has promoted John McLean to head of equity capital markets (ECM) and global asset managers (GAM) for Australia and New Zealand following more than two decades at the firm. The appointment will see McLean relocating to Sydney from his current base in Singapore, where he holds the position of head of GAM, Citi’s financial sponsors business in Asia Pacific.
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2 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Multi-asset electronic trading services provider smartTrade Technologies has begun leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a bid to enhance its platform for its clients. The new offering, called the MetaCloud project, makes use of AWS to streamline smartTrade’s operations, and is also supported by the firm’s innovation incubator, smartTrade Advanced Innovation Lab (SAIL).
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3 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Henri Sinet has joined Kepler Cheuvreux as senior credit sales, in a push to expand the firm’s fixed income business. Sinet brings 10 years of trading experience to his new position, which will see him working out of Paris. Previously, he worked as a credit trader at Mizuho from April 2023 to November 2024, and held the same position at CIC Market Solutions for over two years, covering market-making on EUR investment grade corporate bonds.
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3 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
A small buy-side firm’s budget for the T+1 implementation is likely to start at $223,000, a report by Firebrand Research has revealed. By analysing North America’s settlement, the report emphasised key success factors to be learned and considered for European implementation, highlighting steps such as budgets and greater post-trade automation investment to ensure success in the transition to T+1 settlement.
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4 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
While fallout from Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs in April and the market volatility which ensued caused industry chaos for some, proprietary trading firms prospered, new research by Acuiti and Avelacom has found. According to the report, only 7% of proprietary trading firms experienced losses during the periods of volatility. These figures indicate that investments made by proprietary firms into risk management and trading strategies over the last 10 years have proved successful.
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5 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Siebert Williams Shank has appointed Anthony Santostefano as managing director, global equity sales trading. In the role, he will focus on global equities trading and multi asset market intelligence. Prior to this, Santostefano most recently served as senior vice president and lead international sales trader at Stern Brothers. Before that, he served as director of EMEA equities sales trading at Cabrera Capital Markets.
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5 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
Ross Finlayson has joined Amundi as the firm’s new head of markets and product strategy within the ETF and indexing business. In his new position, London-based Finlayson is set to help drive the growth of the business by leading a multidisciplinary team and assist in the commercialisation of Amundi’s ETF platform. He joins from BlackRock, where he had been working since May 2013. His most recent position at the firm was as managing director, leading the iShares EMEA equity product strategy team.
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5 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
RBC Capital Markets has named Geoffroy Samarcq as its new head of multi asset quantitative investment strategy (QIS) structuring, effective July 2025. The new role will see Samarcq managing the multi asset QIS structuring teams out of New York, as well as helping to drive RBC’s positioning in the expanding QIS sector. His position will also cover the full value chain and all asset classes, and he is set to functionally report to Fabian DePrey, managing director, global head of US market sales.
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5 days ago | 
thetradenews.com | Natasha Cocksedge
JefferiesVivian Li has joined Jefferies as head of Asia distressed trading and credit analytics, in a push to bolster the firm’s fixed income offering, The TRADE can reveal. Li will be based out of Hong Kong and brings over a decade of industry experience to her new position, with expertise covering sovereign, investment grade and high yield corporate credit and financials.
