The Canadian institutional equity trading landscape is a bit of an outlier. Relatively small but mature and complex, it provides a diverse array of exchanges and alternative trading systems to...

Senior derivatives leaders believe that macro trends will have the greatest influence on the derivatives market in the year ahead. The prevailing uncertainty in both politics and the economy is...

Rather than devoting new resources to win relationships with new companies, European corporate banks and their international counterparts are targeting existing clients for growth. By deepening...

The European equities commission wallet, managed by U.K. and Continental managers, experienced a modest 4% increase in 2024, following a 14% decline in 2023. The United Kingdom remains the...

The adoption of cloud by banks and financial market infrastructures (FMIs) has reached a significant milestone, with over a third of applications and services already migrated to the cloud.

Although optimism among small businesses and midsize companies about the economy is creating a favorable environment for commercial banks this year, banks face new competition in the battle for...

The U.S. mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market is one of the largest and most liquid in the world. At the end of Q3 2024, $1.1 trillion MBS securities were issued—a 12.5% increase year over...

The digital asset investment frontier is expanding. With a pro-crypto administration arriving in the U.S. and a belief around the globe that digital assets are here to stay, we see a growing...

European investors enter 2025 with a surprising level of optimism given the set of economic, political and geopolitical challenges facing Europe’s investment markets. In continental Europe,...

The ascendency of private market strategies, an innovation boom in ETFs and the growing challenge of a trans-Atlantic divide on ESG are just some of the trends that will help define the global...