BGC reportedly shuts Lucera LUMEAlfa; preps FMX for soft launch
According to sources, BGC Partners has shuttered its pre-trade data business, Lucera LUMEAlfa, closing the final chapter on pre-trade data pioneer Algomi, and aligning...
Treasury futures open interest shows record uncertainty; surpasses 17 million contracts
Derivatives market operator, CME Group, reports that open interest (OI) in its US Treasury futures reached a record 17,222,551 contracts on 12 May, the...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
Candriam promotes bond chief to CIO
Candriam, the global multi-asset manager has appointed Nicolas Forest, Candriam’s global head of fixed income since 2013, as its new chief investment officer (CIO),...
Liontrust promotes McLoughlin and Hendry
Matthew McLoughlin (see profile here), partner and head of trading at Liontrust Asset Management, has been promoted to chief commercial officer, in addition to...
Eric Morrow joins Apollo Global Management
Eric Morrow has been named chief operations officer (COO) of trading at Apollo Global Management, an asset manager with US$550 billion of assets under...
BloombergGPT launches
Bloomberg has released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
This large language model (LLM)...
Krungsri Asset Management adopts Charles River’s strategic cloud solution
Krungsri Asset Management, the Thai asset management firm has transitioned its front office operation to Charles River’s cloud-based platform.
Krungsri Asset uses the Charles...
PGIM: Research indicates liquidity event is tail risk with greatest impact
In a survey of 400 senior investment decision-makers at institutional investors in Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US with a combined...
Concannon to take the reins at MarketAxess
Market operator, MarketAxess, will see current CEO and chairman Rick McVey become executive chairman from 3 April 2023 as Chris Concannon, currently president and...
