This report is based on the results of a special study, conducted by Greenwich Associates in partnership with Lord Abbett, to better understand how institutional investors viewed the risk,...

This research examines the growing role of media as an influencer of/for financial advisors. We start by assessing the current landscape of financial advisors, including how they spend their time...

The persistent growth trajectory of the trade surveillance technology market has surprised many industry participants. In the years immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, most...

A crisis is sometimes the best way to accelerate necessary conversations and associated change, and to test the staying power of a brand. Already, 2020 has been ripe with opportunities for firms...

Remember back in 2019 when equity trading was characterized by low volatility and static volumes? When the VIX hovered around 15 and rarely spiked above 20? How times have changed. The...

If the financial industry still held any objections to the case for providing firmwide communications flexibility and remote working capabilities, March 2020 saw the argument’s proverbial...

When the U.K. Stamp Act was imposed in 1694, and from time to time since then, there have been sporadic discussions around imposing financial transaction taxes in various markets around the world...

While usage of alternative data is becoming more common, alternative data supply is still in a nascent stage. Increasingly, alternative data users are frustrated with suppliers. While there many...

Liquidity in the swaps market and in other global markets came under extreme pressure in late February and early March 2020 as the true nature of the COVID-19 crisis began to unfold around the...

One of the pleasures of writing about foreign exchange market structure is that it routinely defies convention. In some cases, it defies definition altogether. Its global nature, fractured...