Our 2025 Voice of Client Study for the U.S. corporate bond market included interviews with 145 traders and portfolio managers at asset managers, hedge funds and insurance companies.

Africa’s capital markets are shifting from episodic primary issuance to sustained, two-way secondary trading. Over the last year, liquidity has improved across select markets, supported by reform momentum, better market structure and a widening...

The Coalition Investment Bank Index, which tracks the performance of the 12 largest investment banks globally, demonstrated robust performance in FY25, rising 14.5% year over year to $174.7 billion.

In 2025, we interviewed 113 buy-side FX traders to better understand their dealer relationships, use of technology and views on nonbank liquidity providers (NBLPs) and other market structure trends. The aggregate results of these conversations make...

For the past two years, U.S. global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) have operated under a regulatory overhang. Fearing a punitive Basel III endgame that initially threatened a ~20% hike in capital requirements, the industry built significant...

Canadian institutions are planning a major pullback from domestic stocks, with assets expected to shift mainly into global passive equities and alternatives.

Derivatives volumes grow and shrink based on a long list of factors, including trading firm goals (e.g., speculation, hedging), the state of the underlying markets (e.g., energy, agriculture) and changes in market structure (e.g., electronic trading...

The adoption of Japan’s Asset Owner Principles could trigger a surge in demand for outsourced chief investment officer services (OCIO) among pension funds and other institutions.

Under increasing pressure to fund growing liabilities, European pension funds and other institutions are taking action to optimize portfolio allocations and enhance investment returns.

Asset tokenization can make transfers easier and faster and, by doing so, allow capital to be more efficiently and effectively put to work. While we are still far from truly programmable financial assets (e.g., automated dividends or coupons through...