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Investment News: “Despite the boost the change in regulatory approach has provided to the industry, we’d be remiss not to think about the potential for the exuberance to become irrational,” said Kevin McPartland, head of Research for Market...

FT: Precious metals trading revenues at the top 12 global investment banks were about $1.4bn between January and September, putting 2025 on course to be the second-best year on record for gold trading, behind 2020, according to Crisil Coalition...

The Banker: Crisil Coalition Greenwich forecasts that Equities and Fixed Income Commodities and Currencies trading businesses are unlikely to experience the performance highs of 2025 in the coming year. The firm's data shows that Equities trading...

Financial News: Banks' total markets revenue is expected to reach $259bn in 2025- the highest figure since 2009, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich, and a 12% increase from a bumper 2024. Macro traders are also eyeing a strong 2026. This year...

S&P MI: Major U.S. and European banks are on course to book a total of $346 billion in revenue this year, up from about $315 billion in 2024, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich. they estimate that global investment bank revenues in 2026...

The Desk: Retail Investors are leaning back into bonds, according to a recent Crisil Coalition Greenwich report – and are increasingly owning them directly, rather than through financial intermediaries. Kevin McPartland says that the growth...

FT: According to Crisil Coalition Greenwich, almost half of all trading in Treasuries this year has been done by one-to-one messaging or over the telephone in transactions too large and complex to be conducted without human involvement- the biggest...

GTR: In October, research from Crisil Coalition Greenwich found that U.S. banks had steadily lost ground in the Asian Corporate Trade Finance market– a shift driven by the impact of Washington’s tariffs on China and local lenders boosting their...

Bloomberg: Wall Street firms are expected to generate $165 billion in revenue from trading in fixed-income, credit and commodities this year, up 10% on 2024, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich. In the Group-of-10 rates business, revenue is...

IFR: “We used to have conversations after the pandemic about whether trading revenues are going to normalise back down at some point,”  said Mollie Devine, head of Markets Competitor Analytics at Coalition Greenwich. “We’re not having those...