Amid a sharp slowdown in institutional trading activity, RBC Capital Markets has maintained its position as the leading broker in Canadian equity trading.
Bulge Bracket brokers are fighting hard to protect their aggregate market share in U.S. equity trading as a slowdown in institutional trading activity continues to erode the overall pool of commission revenues generated by sell-side firms.
Although small businesses and mid-sized companies can hardly be described as bullish in their economic outlook, new research from Greenwich Associates shows new signs of optimism among this critical group.
With the huge cost of legacy defined benefit pension plans burdening many companies across the United States, lump-sum offers are gaining in popularity.
Asian banks are gaining ground on their global rivals by stepping up their service quality in corporate banking and by stepping in to fill the void left by retrenching foreign European banks, according to a new report, Asian Companies Forge New Ties With Local Banks, from Greenwich Associates.
A new report, Commodity Swaps: Corporations Face Rising Transaction Costs, from Greenwich Associates concludes that increased transaction costs associated with new regulations on banks and swaps markets could cause companies to reduce hedging activity and assume more risk from direct exposures to energy and other commodities.
Barclays and J.P. Morgan are the world’s leading dealers of OTC derivatives to corporates hedging energy commodities exposures and Goldman Sachs is the top dealer of OTC commodity derivatives to commodities investors.
Although a slowdown in global foreign exchange trading activity kept FX e-trading volumes stagnant last year, electronic trading systems continued to attract new users at a rapid pace.