Bank of America Merrill Lynch and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets are the top brokers in Asian equity trading for 2014.

BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and HSBC are used as a provider by nearly 30% of large European corporates that employ trade finance services.  

Canada’s biggest banks retained their tight grip on the mergers & acquisitions, equity capital markets and debt capital markets business of the country’s larger companies as of mid-year 2014.  

Approximately 35% of large U.S. companies do business with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and J.P. Morgan.

In this fast-changing environment, Barclays continues to lead the European fixed- income market with a market share of 11.9% of institutional trading volume.

When it comes to large corporate banking and cash management, the new strategies of the biggest global banks can be defined by one word: selectivity.

“Brokers dominating in emerging markets equities share three characteristics,” says Greenwich Associates consultant John Colon. “They have proven their commitment this business, they have developed specific expertise at the sector...

Although on the surface things seem relatively placid in the European equity industry, with broker commission payments leveling off in 2014 after an extended period of weakness, the European brokerage business could be on the verge of the biggest...

Following a period of de-concentration in the competitive landscape of trade finance providers in Asia, the leading providers on average lost a few points of market penetration, as a long tail of local and emerging regional banks picked up...

Equity derivatives remain essential tools for institutional investors, but the lack of volatility in global markets has reduced trading volumes.