Despite the growing importance of e-trading and technology, the human touch is as important as ever.  Today’s sell-side sales desk must provide proactive suggestions, understand market structure and offer clients advice on how to best leverage...

Despite regulatory reforms, volatile markets and debate about potentially radical changes to market structure, “headline” commission rates paid by institutional investors on global equity trades held steady from 2014 to 2015.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have established themselves as important components of Asian institutional investment portfolios.

Dark Pools: Losing their Luster

ETFs are becoming a staple of European institutional equity portfolios. 

Canadian institutions rank as some of the most active and sophisticated ETF investors in the institutional marketplace.

The growth in institutional investment in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be attributed to a single factor, versatility.

While gold has been a store of wealth for thousands of years, it received renewed attention following the financial crisis, as confidence in the banking system was shaken.

Electronic trading has changed the entire capital markets landscape. But the interest-rate derivatives (IRD) market has shown that despite quantifiable benefits of e-trading, institutional investors would still prefer to interact with...

As Europeans brace for new rules, technology innovation will continue to transform markets globally.