Anyone operating in the U.S. equity market knows it is challenging times. The continued pressure on commissions remains the main story for the buy side, sell side and technology providers operating...
Banks today are sustaining spends of millions of dollars annually on their digital corporate and commercial banking platforms. It is easy to focus on the bells and whistles of the feature sets,...
Blockchain, also referred to as distributed ledger technology (DLT), has captured the attention of financial services.
In the most comprehensive study to date, Greenwich Associates assesses the...
2015 was a record-breaking year for ETFs, which attracted more than $350 billion in new assets globally. Institutional investors are primary contributors to the steady growth in ETF demand, and over...
With the advent of progressively more rigorous capital requirements, dealers have been compelled to reprice interest-rate derivative products.
As the costs involved in hedging the underlying...
The fixing scandal of 2013/2014 sent shockwaves through the global foreign-exchange markets.
As traders and investors discovered that key benchmark rates had been manipulated by large dealers,...
In the age of algorithmic trading with execution speeds measured in microseconds, the race to reduce market data latency has captured the attention of market data professionals and quantitative...
Standards of conduct in wholesale financial markets are undergoing a transformation, as new regulations in the wake of the financial crisis are being implemented and their effects examined. Industry...
Banks today, in many ways, feel like analog players in an increasingly digital world. Yet change is coming fast: Within the next decade, they will feel and operate more like tech companies with...
As the world moves closer to the U.K referendum on continued EU membership on June 23, what once seemed a remote possibility now seems increasingly likely—or at least possible. Some canny observers...