Press Releases

Insurance Companies Accelerate Investment in ETFs

February 21, 2019

Sixty-two percent of U.S. insurance companies are now utilizing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in their general accounts for reserve and surplus exposures, and among those who have not yet embraced ETFs, 82% expect their organizations will reconsider that decision in the next three years. 

Compensation Spending Drives Budget Growth For Buy Side Trading Desks

February 12, 2019

Budgets for buy-side trading desks in the U.S. and Europe grew 8% last year, fueled by increased spending on compensation.

Transaction Fees, Market Data and Questions About the CAT Top List of Market Structure Issues for 2019

February 7, 2019

Only 2% of traders said they definitely would execute electronic orders with a broker who only used SIP data in their algos, and nearly 1 in 3 want the SEC to pull the plug on the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).

Artificial Intelligence Changing The Way Banks View Middle Market Companies

February 6, 2019

Middle market companies could soon experience changes in how banks view and service them due to banks’ adoption of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank companies in terms of their potential profitability as clients.

For Small Business Banking, The Future Is Digital And Self Service

February 5, 2019

When it comes to banking, small businesses are beginning to experience the same benefits of technology as the consumer and corporate segments.

MiFID II and E-Trading are Changing the Game in Asian Equity Brokerage

January 31, 2019

Although a tumultuous 2018 ended up being a positive year for most leading Asian equity brokers, the industry enters 2019 facing profound questions about how changes in regulation and market structure will affect the traditional institutional brokerage business model.

New Swaps Rules Reducing Risk - and Competition

January 31, 2019

Regulators are batting .500 when it comes to their dual goals with post-crisis reforms in the U.S. interest-rate swaps (IRS) market: making markets safer and encouraging competition in swaps trading and clearing. 

Amid Volatility and Change, There's Stability Atop the Global Fixed-Income Market

January 30, 2019

For the many dealers that weathered a difficult end to 2018, they are seeing a strong beginning to the year, which has renewed optimism that 2019 will be a year of meaningful revenue growth.

Banks and Large Asian Companies Struggle with Onerous Compliance Process

January 29, 2019

Corporate banks competing in Asia are having to navigate a major challenge: keeping corporate clients happy despite an increasingly onerous documentation/compliance process across different jurisdictions in Asia and abroad.

Global Equity Trade Execution Rates Decline in the Wake of MiFID II

January 29, 2019

Hundreds of global investment managers are using the latest Global Equities Commission Rate Analytics as hard-data to compare their rates in negotiations with their sell-side counterparties.