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Equities Front Office Insights

Quantitative Investment Strategies Unwrapped

With markets becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable as a result of shifting market cycles, inflation and geopolitical instability, investors are increasingly seeking alternative means by which to find and grow…

Helen Dawit13 Jul, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: Challenges and Further Considerations

Atomic settlement would create a fundamentally different trading environment. It would disrupt established broker and buyside business models, eliminate certain trading strategies, require significant infrastructure investment, place additional administrative burdens…

Helen Dawit20 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: Fundamentals of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Networks

The technology that underpins real-time settlement will most likely be Blockchain. This technology is well suited as a ledger function similar to that of a conventional paper-based or electronic-based ledger…

Helen Dawit11 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: End-of-day Versus Atomic Settlement

The two models of same-day (T0) settlement, end-of-day settlement and real-time (or atomic) settlement, present the industry with a choice of direction that could be a true fork-in-the road turning…

Helen Dawit10 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: Global Progress and the Two Paths to T0

With the US’s largely successful move to T+1 in May 2024 and the UK/EU’s planned move to T+1 in 2027, the capital markets are looking beyond T+1 to the horizon,…

Helen Dawit6 Mar, 2026

Back Office EU / UK Regulatory Updates Insights Regtech

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (January 2026)

The EU and the UK regulators were both busy late in 2025 setting out updates to regulatory regimes and specifying the work programmes for the coming year. This article provides…

Helen Dawit29 Jan, 2026

Back Office Insights Regtech

MiFID II & MiFIR REVIEW: Return of the Regulator

The MiFID II and MiFIR Review package, developed by the European Commission (EC) and the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) reflects the EU’s intent to modernise financial regulation and address…

Helen Dawit10 Nov, 2025

Back Office EU / UK Regulatory Updates Insights Regtech

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (November 2025)

In the UK and the EU, regulators have been active in proposing new regulations and updating the market on their policy programmes for next year. By GreySpark's Declan Sharp, Consultant…

Helen Dawit6 Nov, 2025

Derivatives Insights Middle Office

Commodities Roundtable – Recent Developments, Best Practice and Horizon Scanning

On 24 September 2025, The Broker Club and international law firm CMS hosted a Commodities roundtable on recent developments, best practice and what holds for the horizon. The breakfast was…

Helen Dawit10 Oct, 2025

Front Office Insights Private Markets

The Private Credit Revolution

Private credit, formerly a niche area of finance, has become a major force in corporate lending, burgeoning in size, rivalling bank lending in the leverage loan market and competing with…

Helen Dawit26 Sep, 2025

Front Office Insights Private Markets

Private Markets: Private Credit is Private Equity’s Other Half but is the Relationship Souring?

Since its inception in the 1980s, private equity and private equity-sponsored firms have come to dominate the private credit market. Most private credit funds are created by nominally private equity…

Chris_Chan23 Sep, 2025

Insights Middle Office

Reimagining the Middle Office

The middle office has played a crucial, yet often underappreciated role in investment banking operations. As the name ‘middle office’ suggests, middle-office processes – and therefore people and technology too…

Helen Dawit19 Sep, 2025

Quantitative Investment Strategies Unwrapped

Real-time Securities Settlement: Challenges and Further Considerations

Real-time Securities Settlement: End-of-day Versus Atomic Settlement

Real-time Securities Settlement: Global Progress and the Two Paths to T0

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (January 2026)

MiFID II & MiFIR REVIEW: Return of the Regulator

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (November 2025)

Commodities Roundtable – Recent Developments, Best Practice and Horizon Scanning

The Private Credit Revolution

Private Markets: Private Credit is Private Equity’s Other Half but is the Relationship Souring?

Reimagining the Middle Office

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