Buy-side FX traders are increasingly focused on achieving best execution, with pricing and quality of coverage emerging as the top attributes when evaluating their FX dealers.
Infrastructure is one of the fastest growing asset classes in institutional portfolios around the globe, but institutions in North America and the rest of the world are investing in the asset class for starkly different reasons.
Buy-side FX traders are increasingly focused on achieving best execution, with pricing and quality of coverage emerging as the top attributes when evaluating their FX dealers.
Convertible bond trading is going electronic—at least partially.
At first glance, convertible bonds might not seem like a perfect fit for electronic trading. Relative to products like equities, U.S. Treasuries and even traditional corporate bonds, “converts” are much more varied and complicated in structure, and considerably less liquid.
Asian institutional investors are optimistic about the future investment environment and are looking to put capital to work across a range of asset classes—especially in international assets and alternatives, where asset owners are planning a significant boost to allocations.
Thanks to their experiences during the pandemic, large European companies have become much more skilled at overcoming disruptions to their supply chains. Today, they are managing to work around a new set of obstacles to keep businesses running and international trade flowing.
Equity traders looking to stay ahead of the curve—and the competition—are turning to alternative trading systems (ATSs) that are experimenting with new innovative features to improve trading outcomes.
New competition in the market for trading and clearing interest-rate futures and swaps is causing the industry to refocus on margin optimization, a process that allows market participants to reduce margin requirements – and ultimately the cost of trading.
The issues that snarled global trade during the pandemic have morphed into a new set of problems, largely geopolitical and financial in nature, which continue to disrupt trade flows and corporate supply chains.
Europe’s investors are bullish. Across Europe, companies that distribute investment funds expect the investors on their platforms to pour assets into a range of products spanning both equities and fixed income, and traditional and alternative products.