One of the most common challenges asset managers face is developing and maintaining a robust, competitive product lineup. Managers spend countless dollars and hours developing new products in...

Corporate bond markets have shown their excitement for portfolio trading over the past year, as volumes increased on an absolute and relative basis compared with the overall market. While the...

Corporate bond markets have proven to be one of the biggest financial technology innovation stories of the past five years. Trading protocols, data access, data quality, analytical tools, and...

As the global economy emerges from an unprecedented shutdown, both policymakers and investors are operating in uncharted territory. To better understand investor strategies during this important...

Record low interest rates and a pandemic that shut down the global economy have pushed the wholesale banking industry into innovation overdrive. At the current pace of change, the operating model...

At the end of 2020, Coalition Greenwich took a close look at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on foreign exchange (FX) markets. In that analysis, we noted a flight to safety within the G10...

Loan markets have been busy this past year. But despite the uptick in issuance, trading volume and investor demand, trading of par and leveraged loans remains largely manual. By most accounts,...

Market structure trends are making the economics of executing fixed-income, currencies and commodities (FICC) products on multidealer platforms increasingly unsustainable. The combination of...

In a simplistic model of trading desk operations, there are two necessities: people (to trade) and technology (to facilitate those trades). As such, we have been tracking the proportion of the...

1Q21 Coalition Index for Investment Banking revenues were up by 39% on a YoY basis and 1Q21 recorded the highest first quarter investment banking revenues in the past six years driven by strong...