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Regulation : Brokers warned on SI regime missteps : Dan Barnes

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Regulators have expressed concern over banks’ plans for operating systematic internalisers (SIs) under the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). Dealers have...

J.P. Morgan Execute powers the future of e-trading

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Close teamwork is seamlessly delivering sophisticated services to the users of J.P. Morgan’s Execute platform. J.P. Morgan’s Execute platform has 4,000 users globally, and facilitates...

Goldman Sachs agrees to buy NNIP for €1.6 billion

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Goldman Sachs has agreed to buy European asset manager NN Investment Partners from NN Group NV for €1.6bn, marking the biggest acquisition under CEO...

Kerätär takes new trading role at Elo

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Antti Kerätär, senior dealer at OP Financial Group in Finland, is moving to a new role at Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company as part...

CSG closes portfolio financing, sells US$15 million in bonds

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Real estate and renewable energy financial services company Churchill Stateside Group has sold US$15 million of short-term cash collateralised, tax-exempt bonds to financial institutions,...

The week in summary: Credit Suisse; fixed income liquidity; ‘Who died?’

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This week has been very challenging for buy-side trading desks as broker-dealers struggle to price bonds, and uncertainty gripped markets. “I was off Monday, came...

TSE and Tradeweb respond to investor ETF demand

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Tradeweb has connected to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) request-for-quote (RFQ) platform Conneqtor as demand for ETFs jumps up by a third in Asia....

EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners

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Execution management system (EMS) provider TradingScreen has been bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings to a...

Tradeweb launches AI pricing service for munis

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Market operator Tradeweb has launched a new service, Tradeweb Ai-Price, which uses machine learning and proprietary data science to calculate daily prices for municipal...

Bloomberg to buy Broadway Technology in boost to rates trading

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Bloomberg has entered into an agreement to acquire Broadway Technology, a fixed-income execution management system (EMS) provider. This acquisition will help Bloomberg to...

“Fundamentally flawed […] inadequate”; SIFMA slams SEC’s best execution proposal

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In a recent post from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), former chief economist and director of the Division of Economic and...