Originally presented by Kevin McPartland as opening remarks at the 2025 Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Washington, DC on June 10. In 2015, the year of the first Fixed Income Leaders Summit, we asked investment-grade bond traders what their...

A good broker can transform an equity trader’s day. They’re not just order-takers, they’re problem-solvers, partners and sometimes even advisors. But reaching that level of trust and understanding requires give and take. Communication is key—and...

For the corporate bond market, the last decade was about the growth of electronic trading. The buy side wants the next to be about automation. In December 2024 and January 2025, we asked 67 buy-side corporate bond traders in the United States and...

As we look back on the past year, it's clear that market structure and technology continue to shape capital markets in every way. Our nearly 80 published reports, blogs and webinars in 2024 examine in detail how those changes are shaping markets and...

Increased demand for alternatives, structured products and cash products helped push growth for global wealth managers to 7% in the first three quarters of 2024. From 2022 to 2023, performance among global wealth managers was driven by increasing...

While summer has traditionally meant vacation time, winding down and casual work attire, for some in the capital markets industry, the summer of 2024 didn’t follow that script. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stayed busier than...

Crypto is playing a bigger role in the U.S. presidential election than ever before and is having an outsized influence on candidate fundraising. For instance, single-issue crypto PACs like Fairshake are supporting leaders who would enable crypto...

A recent Coalition Greenwich study of asset managers revealed a surprising trend: 10% of them have paid trading commissions to outsourced trading (OT) platforms over the past year. This finding may raise eyebrows, as the buy side has traditionally...

Investment data and market insights have never been more accessible. For most institutional investors, the challenge is no longer finding the information they need but finding the time and mechanisms to consume all the content at their fingertips...

As costs related to compliance rise and budgets compress across the financial services industry, technology end users are demanding more use cases for applications. In the case of digital communications, end users have traditionally sent...