Against a backdrop of expanding data sources, remote work and greater need for collaboration, the investment management industry is facing an urgent requirement to leverage modern tools to...

European swaps markets have long led the world in electronic trading. Whereas U.S. markets needed a global credit crisis to create regulations that would drive trading onto the screen, the...

In their quest to differentiate among asset managers beyond product-level information, institutional investors are increasingly focusing on manager attributes that are often difficult to quantify...

The clear focus on compliance and operational efficiency is putting pressure on banks to be more agile and to rely more on third-party software and services providers. At the same time, trading...

First, liquidity, as always, remains a top priority (at least in determining where orders are routed). When decisions are made on where and how to direct orders, a driving focus will always be...

Hope and lofty expectations for change were at the heart of corporate bond market innovation conversations a decade ago. Today, many of those hopes and expectations have become reality and, in...

It’s time for commercial banks to switch from defense to offense. Throughout 2020, work-from-home requirements and the challenge of supporting existing clients through the COVID-19 crisis...

Climate change is a slow-burning crisis that is transforming the investment landscape. Over half the 101 global institutional investors participating in a new joint PGIM-Greenwich Associates...

While financial markets were disrupted in 2020 along with the rest of the world, transactions continued despite the market’s complexity—in some cases at a record pace. The Fed helped a little, as...

The lines between the portfolio management system (PMS) and the order management system (OMS) are getting blurrier by the day. This is partially due to the rise of software as a service (SaaS)...