For the corporate bond market, the last decade was about the growth of electronic trading. The buy side wants the next to be about automation. In December 2024 and January 2025, we asked 67 buy-side corporate bond traders in the United States and...

As we look back on the past year, it's clear that market structure and technology continue to shape capital markets in every way. Our nearly 80 published reports, blogs and webinars in 2024 examine in detail how those changes are shaping markets and...

Crypto is playing a bigger role in the U.S. presidential election than ever before and is having an outsized influence on candidate fundraising. For instance, single-issue crypto PACs like Fairshake are supporting leaders who would enable crypto...

Investment data and market insights have never been more accessible. For most institutional investors, the challenge is no longer finding the information they need but finding the time and mechanisms to consume all the content at their fingertips...

As costs related to compliance rise and budgets compress across the financial services industry, technology end users are demanding more use cases for applications. In the case of digital communications, end users have traditionally sent...

With all the hoopla surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), is it possible that only 10% of buy-side trading desks are incorporating these technologies in their equity trading processes? Is this a case of “don’t believe...

Corporate bond investors are well taken care of. Markets are more transparent, electronic and generally more accessible than they’ve ever been. The path to this point certainly wasn’t smooth. In the early 2000s, TRACE reporting, MarketAxess and...

In the ever-evolving landscape of capital markets, the relentless march of tokenization is reshaping the industry. Traditional financial institutions, often perceived as slow to adopt innovations, are now making decisive moves into production beyond...

America’s smaller commercial banks are under increasing pressure. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic nearly caused a run on small and regional banks in the United States. Fast action by regulators to protect retail deposits and...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to shake up the crypto industry with its recent string of enforcement actions. There are major implications for institutional traders as the regulatory status of digital assets and...