The European equities commission wallet, managed by U.K. and Continental managers, experienced a modest 4% increase in 2024, following a 14% decline in 2023. The United Kingdom remains the...
The adoption of cloud by banks and financial market infrastructures (FMIs) has reached a significant milestone, with over a third of applications and services already migrated to the cloud.
Although optimism among small businesses and midsize companies about the economy is creating a favorable environment for commercial banks this year, banks face new competition in the battle for...
The U.S. mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market is one of the largest and most liquid in the world. At the end of Q3 2024, $1.1 trillion MBS securities were issued—a 12.5% increase year over...
The digital asset investment frontier is expanding. With a pro-crypto administration arriving in the U.S. and a belief around the globe that digital assets are here to stay, we see a growing...
European investors enter 2025 with a surprising level of optimism given the set of economic, political and geopolitical challenges facing Europe’s investment markets. In continental Europe,...
The ascendency of private market strategies, an innovation boom in ETFs and the growing challenge of a trans-Atlantic divide on ESG are just some of the trends that will help define the global...
U.S. equity market structure has evolved into a construct that would make Rube Goldberg blush. Complexity piled upon complexity, there’s no end in sight. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s...
The year ahead is arguably the most unpredictable since the start of the pandemic. Geopolitics are complicated, U.S. regulatory policy is uncertain, and although it seems like U.S. equity markets...
3Q24YTD Coalition Index Investment Banking revenues were up by 10% on a YoY basis.