Press Releases

Banks’ Fight for Deposits Influencing Commercial Lending Decisions, Curbing Some Rate Increases

October 3, 2023

Banks’ competition for deposits appears to be having an impact on bankers’ pricing decisions and slowing increases in rates on corporate loans—at least slightly. 

Emerging Best Practices Could Accelerate Growth of Sustainable Investing

September 28, 2023

Institutional investors in North America and Europe with more than a decade of experience in ESG investing are beginning to coalesce around an emerging set of best practices that push sustainable investing into a new and more mature phase.

Trading Desks Race to Keep Pace with Fast-Changing FX Market Structure

September 26, 2023

The global foreign exchange market evolution  continues to necessitate a wave of investments by market participants who are focused on improving the sophistication and effectiveness of the trading.

Corporates in Asia Work to Make Supply Chains More Resilient and Sustainable

September 26, 2023

 Asia’s large corporates are accelerating efforts to make supply chains more resilient to both economic crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and political tensions by sourcing new suppliers from across the region.

Primary Dealers Role in the Bond Market Evolving

September 19, 2023

The biggest U.S. bond dealers are maintaining the bulk of their market share while morphing into bond brokers who facilitate trades without putting their own capital on the line.

As Equity Investors Work to Transform Trading Technology Platforms, Many Consider Hybrid Approach

September 12, 2023

Boutique institutional equity investors are less-than-satisfied with the support they are getting from their trading technology providers, but fears of the potential disruptions associated with a change in vendors often cause them to stay the course with current partners. 

Japanese FX Continues To Become More Electronic

August 22, 2023

Investments by dealers in increasingly sophisticated e-trading systems and growing liquidity on multidealer platforms have set the Japanese FX market on a course toward increasing electronification. 

Capital Markets Firms Ramp Up Spending on Market Data

August 22, 2023

Asset managers, wealth management firms, banks, and broker-dealers globally are opening their wallets for market data. Spending on market data is expected to increase by 10% or more next year in priority areas including equites, fixed income and alternative data, and by at least 5% across other asset classes.

Momentum Building for Clearing in FX Derivatives

August 8, 2023

FX derivatives clearing is slowly on its way to becoming an important and influential component of the FX market structure.

Algorithmic Trading Comes to the European Corporate Bond Market

July 25, 2023

Europe’s corporate bond markets are the most electronic corporate bond markets in the world.