Interviews with fixed-income professionals working at buy-side firms reveal a significant shift in sentiment toward transaction cost analysis (TCA), even as current adoption rates remain stable....

Large European companies give their cash management banks unimpressive grades for innovation. Corporate clients aren’t interested in stories about how much banks are spending or their latest...

Private infrastructure remains a popular choice for trading technology workloads, with 53% of firms leveraging private infrastructure on premise, despite the growing attention paid to public...

U.S. corporate bond market included interviews with 145 traders and portfolio managers at asset managers, hedge funds and insurance companies. The results create a picture of increased automation...

Africa’s capital markets are shifting from episodic primary issuance to sustained, two-way secondary trading. Over the last year, liquidity has improved across select markets, supported by reform...

The Coalition Investment Bank Index, which tracks the performance of the 12 largest investment banks globally, demonstrated robust performance in FY25, rising 14.5% year over year to $174.7...

In 2025, we interviewed 113 buy-side FX traders to better understand their dealer relationships, use of technology and views on nonbank liquidity providers (NBLPs) and other market structure...

For the past two years, U.S. global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) have operated under a regulatory overhang. Fearing a punitive Basel III endgame that initially threatened a ~20% hike in...

Canadian institutions are planning a major pullback from domestic stocks, with assets expected to shift mainly into global passive equities and alternatives. Roughly a third of Canadian institutions...

Derivatives volumes grow and shrink based on a long list of factors, including trading firm goals (e.g., speculation, hedging), the state of the underlying markets (e.g., energy, agriculture) and...