In 2Q22, Coalition Index Investment Banking revenues were down by (8)% on a YoY basis. FICC: The significant increase in FICC revenues came from Macro products, with upticks largely driven by...

Market complexity is off the charts. While market risk hasn’t fundamentally changed, the factors that are feeding into it have. This paper focuses on the recent macroeconomic alphabet soup of...

Mobile apps have moved beyond the realm of retail investors into professional financial services. What was previously a gradual embrace of mobile apps accelerated dramatically during the pandemic...

Thus far, 2022 has been net positive for e-trading around the world. Growth in some cases is even greater than the percentages suggest, given the percentage of volume traded electronically has...

Global investment managers face myriad challenges in today’s market environment: continuing fee pressures, market gyrations, investment valuation challenges, as well as the ongoing need for...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Chairperson Gary Gensler has once again proven itself to be quite imaginative and industrious, as the agency turns to the U.S. Treasury...

Factory shutdowns, shipping chaos, labor shortages, and other disruptions continue to put the supply chains of Asia’s large companies to the test. But more than two years since the start of the...

Transaction Banking revenues grew significantly in 1H22, surpassing the pre-pandemic levels. This was driven by increases in Cash Management while Trade Finance grew moderately. Trade Finance...

There have been numerous macro trends affecting the interest-rates derivatives (IRD) market: Libor retirement, central bank actions on rates, infation, and the trend toward clearing, to name but...

Buy-side equity commission spending grew in Q1 2021 compared to the year before after a nearly decades-long decline. Increased market volatility (in large part from the meme stock craze) expanded...