Japanese fixed-income investors may consider revisiting some long-established trading practices after the Bank of Japan took what could be the first small step toward unwinding its near decade-long policy of ultra-low interest rates.

As large U.S. companies review their banking relationships ahead of a potential economic downturn, they should use any shifts as an opportunity to address pervasive service issues.

For the third year in a row, we can safely say the past year was like no other in the bond market.

2022 was a year of unprecedented daily price moves, historically low liquidity and a yield curve more inverted than most in the market had ever seen.

Review key industry trends focused on endowments, foundations and pensions funds for the institutional investors market in Japan.

Review key industry trends focused on financial institutions for the institutional investors market in Japan.

View which asset managers are top of mind for institutional investors in Asia across fixed income, equities and alternatives.

To say the institutional equities business is cutthroat would be an understatement at best, particularly for brokers competing in the electronic or algorithmic arena.

There are both macroeconomic and market structure reasons why retail investors haven’t held bonds over the past decade.

It’s official: As of Q4 2022, Libor is dead—with virtually all new loans and renewals in the final months of the year priced on SOFR or other alternative benchmarks.