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Best Execution: “Fintech providers are offering buy-side firms cutting-edge tools to improve the research process, risk management and cybersecurity capabilities, to name a few,” says Brad Tingley.

Fortune: Industry tracker Coalition Greenwich estimates that banks booked about $8 billion in SPAC-related fees in 2020 and 2021. 

Reuters: ...That represents roughly 6.5% of total U.S. investment banking fees that major banks collected in that period, according to Coalition Greenwich.

eFinancial Careers: Coalition Greenwich looked at tech-spending versus people-spending on buy-side trading desks, but a similar distribution exists on the sell-side.

Traders: According to Shane Swanson the growth of using outsourced trading firms to supplement an institutions own trading desk, whether to access additional skills, expertise, market color, or depth of bench, is “a trend on the rise”.

Best Execution: Institutions around the world are adopting environment, social and governance (ESG) standards), and have identified fighting climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions as their top priorities, according to a new report...

ValueWalk: More than half of financial advisors in the U.S. will soon have the ability to offer private investment opportunities to their clients.

Traders: Changing asset classes “is tethered to the dynamics of the market,” Blater told Traders.

Traders: Kevin McPartland said: “Automation is no longer about only trade execution, but instead improving the full trading lifecycle.  

Traders: Coalition Greenwich has hired Todd Glickson as Head of Investment Management, North America.