In The News

The Desk: “For anyone who is using an outsourced trading desk, the most important things to understand are around how you are structured,” says Shane Swanson.

eFinancial Careers: Research firm Coalition says there are no more than 17,000 people working across all levels of M&A and corporate finance globally. 

Euromoney: A sign of too much risk and exposure in a frothy market or just two banks that didn’t have their risk management in order? 

S&P Global Market Intelligence: In equities, the outperformance of U.S. banks was primarily driven by flow equity derivatives, according to Youssef Intabli, a research director at the corporate and investment banking team of Coalition...

Financial Times: Coalition data suggest that revenues from prime broking at the top 12 banks outstripped those of both cash equities and equity derivatives in 2012. 

The Trade: A separate study carried out by Greenwich Associates last year suggested that brokers had stepped up in the more volatile periods in 2020, with 80% of buy-side traders stating they were satisfied with broker performance.

Investment News: PGIM partnered with Greenwich Associates to poll 101 major allocators throughout Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific each with more than $3bn in assets under management. 

Banking Exchange:  The survey found that 90% believe climate change is an important issue for their organization. However, among North American investors, only 47% actively incorporate climate change into their investment processes,...

The Trade: Coalition Greenwich report found that all-to-all anonymous trading accounted for 12% of investment grade corporate bond trading in 2020, up from 8% the year prior.

Bloomberg: All-to-all trading saw a big jump in its share of investment-grade corporate bond trading last year, according to Greenwich Associates.