The relationship between the buy side and their brokers is often complex, with commission rates being just one aspect of a broader arrangement. These rates are negotiable and depend on a variety of factors, including the firm type, trading volume and complexity, execution quality, platforms used in order routing, and ancillary or bundled services such as research, regions and regulations.
U.S. option market volumes caught fire in 2021. Records were made, broken and then almost immediately broken again. The top six volume months in the history of the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) reporting occurred in 2021.
The crypto market’s new level of maturity is driving demand from traditional finance, much of which now accepts it as a new asset class that must be examined closely. This next phase in the evolution of crypto market structure will be highly...
While inflation, supply chain issues, regulation, the pandemic, and central banks’ rate-raising plans will certainly be big drivers of global markets for the foreseeable future, the following set of 10 diverse market structure and technology trends...
3Q21 Coalition Index Investment Banking revenues were up by 13% on a YoY basis.
Holistic surveillance practices have evolved significantly in recent years, and never more so than during the industry’s historic transition to remote working environments in 2020. Effective surveillance programs depend on key data analysis,...
The use of algorithms in FX execution remains less prevalent than in equities. While some motivations to use algos remain consistent (e.g. accessing liquidity), there are new drivers that are changing this part of the market.
Today, traditional financial information vendors and aggregators have expanded into this market and are developing offerings and marketplaces intended to make discovery, acquisition and ingestion easier than ever.
A lot has happened since the beginning of 2020, including the growth of electronic trading in nearly every major asset class around the world.
Stablecoins have rocked the boat. Financial institutions and regulators are responding to a new innovation that offers significant advantages for capital markets institutions, such as the exchange between fiat and crypto, rapid settlement, new yield...
Third-quarter revenue for the top five U.S. banks tracked by the Coalition Index for U.S. Banks were up 17% year over year and 45% from the third quarter of 2019.
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