Fixed-income dealers are spending $15-$20 billion a year on RegTech, or regulatory technology, that helps them comply with the raft of regulations covering their trading desks. 

The MiFID II directives will surely bring significant changes to the financial industry. With increased scrutiny and a brighter spotlight shining on established investment processes, every affected party will have to adapt—a daunting prospect.

Not all benchmarks and, perhaps more importantly, not all benchmark calculations are alike and while always important, several macro factors have added additional complexity to the task of benchmark selection.

Dramatic advances in artifical intelligence (AI) are quickly changing this technology from a banking buzzword to a critical capability that helps drive better outcomes for clients.

If providing technology to enable electronic trading of corporate bonds was the first phase of the market’s evolution, then gathering, analyzing and putting data to work is phase two.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting all parts of the economy and our daily lives, from self-driving cars to personal digital assistants. Financial institutions, of course, will not be exempted from this disruption.

Continuing innovation in the cryptocurrency space has led to increased transaction volume, trading volume and skyrocketing valuations. As market participants realize that bitcoin and its crypto brethren are not just a passing fad but rather an...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should abandon the failed Tick-Size Pilot in small-cap stocks to free up time and resources for other experiments in equity market regulation, such as the proposed Access Fee Pilot Program, stock exchange...

The blurring of lines between asset management and investment consulting represents a huge challenge to asset managers, since roughly 90% of their institutional clients rely on consultants for guidance.

Both patent protection and open-source software development can benefit the distributed ledger technology ecosystem.