For most asset managers, product development—from idea capture to product release—takes between three months and one year. 

The average daily volume of portfolio trades in 2021 (through April) is 159% higher than in 2019, equating to over $1.5 billion traded each day via the protocol. While suggestions that the entire corporate bond market will trade this way one day are...

Global corporate bond markets are arguably the biggest market structure growth story of the past five years. 

As the global economy emerges from an unprecedented shutdown, both policymakers and investors are operating in uncharted territory. To better understand investor strategies during this important transitional period, we interviewed approximately 500...

Record low interest rates and a pandemic that shut down the global economy have pushed the wholesale banking industry into innovation overdrive. At the current pace of change, the operating model for corporate and transaction banking is likely to be...

The COVID-19 crisis further cemented the importance of relationships, even in the highly electronic FX, and beckoned some noteworthy behavior shifts that are likely to persist in the coming years.

One might suspect that an ecosystem as active as the one for loans would have brought with it electronification over the past decade, similar to the e-trading growth seen in corporate and government bonds.

Market structure trends are making the economics of executing FICC product trades on multidealer platforms increasingly expensive, prompting buy-side and sell-side firms to explore new ways of interacting directly.

Despite skepticism around the efficacy of trading away from the bustle and rigorous infrastructure of the trading floor, the shift to trading from home went off mostly without a hitch. Here we take a look at the budgets and tools on buy-side trading...

1Q21 recorded the highest first quarter investment banking revenues in the past six years driven by strong growth across products.