Controlling risk has been a central theme for banks since the financial crisis of 2008. During that time, U.S. regulators addressed issues concerning practices tied to market making, derivatives exposure, counterparty risk, and more.

The past four years have brought a notable uptick in e-trading of domestic-currency, G10 investment-grade and hard-currency credit in Asia, with domestic-currency bonds leading the way.

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.