Institutional investors increased their annual spending on risk and analytics platforms to $700 million, as “risk tech” expenditures nearly doubled to 10% of total buy-side trading desk technology budgets in 2017.

Outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) is one of the hottest topics of conversation in our ongoing dialogue with managers, consultants and institutional investors.

The nature of trust can be difficult to assess and quantify, but everyone knows we need trust to make society work. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of finance.

A decade on from the financial crisis, which triggered the bond-dealer balance sheet reduction, institutional corporate bond investors are finally feeling some liquidity relief. Electronic trading over the past few years has eased the buy side’s...

Investors are increasing allocations to focused strategies, or investment strategies, consisting of approximately 50 or fewer securities.

For European fixed-income market participants, 2017 was the “year of compliance.” MiFID II has arrived and, as one of the most significant regulatory changes in the history of the financial industry, it impacts nearly every facet of the fixed-income...

For centuries, corporate and consumer lending has followed a traditional model in which financial institutions act as centralized counterparties, making loans funded by deposits. 

Transaction cost analysis (TCA) is now an essential tool on most equity desks, where traders leverage it to help them understand trading performance, optimize routing, and to see how they stack up against their peers.

The current method for developing and deploying software within large financial services institutions has changed little over the last twenty years and is archaic when compared to the rapid innovation that is delivered seamlessly to our consumer-...

After nearly a decade of disruption and uncertainty, buy-side trading desks are finally finding a new equilibrium.