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Banks Struggle to Break Up Trading Floor Boys’ Club
By Becky Pritchard and Samuel Agini
January 15, 2019, Financial News
Around five years ago Becci McKinley-Rowe, head of U.K. equity sales at Morgan Stanley, spoke to a group of …
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Wall Street Struggles with the Bad Kind of Volatility
By Telis Demos and Gunjan Banerji
January 13, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
Financial markets’ wild and woolly fourth quarter likely won’t translate into strong trading results at the nation’s …
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Equity Derivs Healthy, Prime Brokerage Slower in Q4 – Analysts
By Andrew Neil
January 10, 2019, Global Investor Group
Investment banks saw healthy equity derivatives trading activity in the last quarter of 2018, according to HSBC, although prime brokerage growth …
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Computer Models to Investors: Short Everything
By Stephanie Yang
January 9, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
Investors have started to shake off last year’s steep losses, helping markets regain some ground in 2019. But the robots …
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Record Year for Tradeweb
By Becky Butcher
December 7, 2018, Securities Lending Times
Tradeweb’s trading volume is on track for a record year, with average total daily trading volumes up by 37.3% on last …
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Investors Bet on Rate Volatility as No-Deal Brexit Fears Mount
By Philip Stafford
December 3, 2018, Financial Times
Growing concern over how a no-deal Brexit could unbalance the British economy has sparked a record-breaking surge in demand for derivatives contracts …
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Imperfect Harmony: Industry Balks at E.U. Foreign Venue Rules
By Samuel Wilkes
November 13, 2018, Risk
Many foreign venues will then be forced to choose between complying with onerous extraterritorial rules, in addition to their home requirements, and losing …
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Investment Association Calls for Better Bond Market Data
By David Ricketts
November 6, 2018, Financial News
The Investment Association, which lobbies for U.K. fund managers investing £7tn, has called on regulators to spur the creation of a single, …
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Bank Analysts Are Getting Crushed in Europe — and Smaller Firms Are Getting Hit the Worst
By Trista Kelley
November 4, 2018, Business Insider
Bad news for analysts who publish research on European companies: investment banks will be earning about 20% less on their European equity …
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CSDR Will Damage European Securities Trading
By Lizzie Meager
November 2, 2018, Practice Insight from IFLR
European banks are warning that controversial new rules governing securities settlement will damage trading volumes and create an uneven playing …
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