The Asian equity market is attracting fierce competition from a large and diverse group of brokers looking to capture a share of the region’s recovering institutional research and trading...
12 February 2014By:Taeko Sumiyoshi, Tomio Sumiyoshi, John Feng
As institutions pick up the pace of their trading activity in a revived Japanese equity market, they are calling on the services of a brokerage industry that changed significantly during the market...
With balance sheet pressures subsiding and attractive returns difficult to find in their own local regions, European providers have increased risk appetite allocations and began competing again for...
Low interest rates and new capital requirements for banks combined have altered the way large European companies finance their businesses. Companies that have long relied on bank loans for long-term...
Asian institutional fixed-income trading volume increased 15% in 2013. That growth was driven almost entirely by the continued expansion of local currency bond markets, in which trading volumes...
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While U.S. banks are locked in fierce competition for the business of the country’s strongest and most promising small...
Despite new regulations, soaring compliance costs, balance sheet pressures, unfavorable interest rates and soft demand for loans, U.S. banks are investing in their middle-market banking businesses in...
The confluence of economic and regulatory headwinds has limited the profitability of traditional banking since the financial crisis. At the moment, there is little doubt that the supply of credit...
The restructuring of the global fixed-income business will continue in 2014 as banks around the world experiment to find the right size and commitment levels to keep them both viable and profitable....
Amid a dramatic slowdown in institutional trading volume of Japanese government bonds (JGBs), Mizuho Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities maintained their momentum as the market...