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Nearly half of Asian institutional investors plan to significantly increase allocations to private debt in the next three years.
After multiple years spent fighting for scarce volume, Canadian equity trading desks are seeing more turnover, greater buzz and heightened activity.
A potential surge of mergers and acquisitions in 2026 could create growth opportunities for commercial banks- including both banks that engage in mergers and acquisitions, and rivals that swoop in to capitalize on disruptions clients experience as a result of these complex transactions.
After more than a decade of painful margin compression, asset managers around the world are making profitability their top strategic priority in 2026.
Over the past decade, the U.S. institutional investment consulting industry has been reshaped by a series of seismic trends, including consolidation, the rise of the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), the entry of private equity as owners, and the integration of consulting with wealth management and RIA firms.
Investors tapping into alternative datasets in their search for alpha are discovering that even the best data is less valuable without the right delivery methods, analytical tools and hands-on support from data providers.
The pool of commissions paid to brokers by institutional investors for European equity trades increased 15% last year.
Corporate Treasury departments aren’t getting the productivity boost they anticipated from their investments in AI. This experience might have broader lessons for companies around the world wondering why the ROI on AI is falling short of expectations, at least for now.
Regional and community banks have a chance to regain ground lost to larger providers by distinguishing themselves as trusted advisors, providing crucial support to help clients navigate today’s uncertain environment.
Although private markets are at the cutting edge of today’s financial markets, private capital firms themselves have been surprisingly slow to innovate internally, with fragmented systems slowing the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and many workflows still reliant on Excel spreadsheets.
Wall Street is getting on the bandwagon for prediction markets, which it views as both a potential source of valuable data and a new vehicle for taking and hedging investment positions.
J.P. Morgan earned an impressive trifecta this year by being named the Best Bank in Corporate Banking and Corporate Cash Management globally and joining HSBC as Best Bank for Corporate Foreign Exchange globally in 2026, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich.
Commissions paid by institutional investors to brokers on trades for U.S. equity trades jumped 12% to just under $7 billion in 2025, levels not seen since the meme stock surge of 2021.
As programmatic research becomes an increasingly important part of investment analysis, buy-side firms are moving to centralize programmatic research tools and workflows across investment teams, risk and compliance functions, trading desks, and other areas of their organizations.
Investors pouring money into private credit and other alternatives are gravitating to specialist managers with long histories in these complex and often unfamiliar asset classes. This preference has helped drive a string of mergers and partnerships playing out between alternative specialists and diversified asset managers looking to establish a presence in the booming space.
A regulatory renaissance, the next phase of the AI boom, the continued emergence of tokenization, and the institutionalization of fast-growing prediction markets are just a few of the powerful trends that will drive the evolution of financial market structure in 2026.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help investors unlock alpha from non-traditional sources of data are fueling a boom in buy-side adoption and spending on “alternative” datasets.
In a turbulent year for financial markets, fund distributors in Europe are working to provide investors with some degree of certainty and diversification by bringing more asset managers with stable investment teams and top-notch risk management capabilities onto their platforms.
