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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

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

Front Office Insights Sustainability

The Challenges of ESG Data for Asset Managers

Sustainability and responsible investing are now well established as critical considerations for investors and, as such, continue to be at the forefront of the minds of many asset managers, with…

Helen Dawit15 Apr, 2025

Derivatives Front Office Insights

The Changing Role of the Sellside in Dynamic Commodities Markets

For decades, sellside banks and broker dealers were an important link between buyside traders and commodity producers, providing opportunities for physical exchange as well as speculation. However, faced by a…

Helen Dawit13 Feb, 2025

Front Office Insights

Navigating the Complexities of Short Selling in Global Markets

Short selling in South Korea has recently been fraught with controversy and has attracted close regulatory scrutiny. In 2023, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), South Korea’s financial regulator, imposed a…

Helen Dawit28 Aug, 2024

Data Fixed Income Front Office Insights

Harnessing Fixed Income Data: Powerful Insight Generation for Asset Managers

In 2017, the full implementation of the EU’s MiFID II regime gave buyside and sellside firms of all ilk access to regulatory post-trade data gathered by trade repositories and regulated…

Dariush Hessami30 Apr, 2024

Data Fixed Income Front Office Insights

Making Sense of Fixed Income Market Data Madness

It was during a presentation by the makers of the popular app-based game Candy Crush Saga at a Cloud Provider event in 2017 that Vincent Grandjean began to formulate a…

Helen Dawit19 May, 2023

Front Office Insights

Beyond High-touch vs. Low-touch: Fit-for-the-Future Technology

Part 2 of 3 Since the installation of first transatlantic undersea cable, trading technology providers were tasked with simple mandates: Deliver information faster, from as many sources as possible and…

Dariush Hessami26 Feb, 2021

Equities Front Office Insights

Cash Equities Trading Landscape: 6 Trends to Watch in 2021

Over the last decade, cash equities trading has experienced a high degree of technological and business consolidation, driven by the downward pressure on margins in cash equities brokerage.

Dariush Hessami11 Jan, 2021

Front Office Insights

Beyond High-touch vs. Low-touch: What Investment Banks & Non-bank Brokers Need to Run their Trading Business

Since the installation of first transatlantic undersea cable, trading technology providers were tasked with simple mandates: Deliver information faster, from as many sources as possible and help investors and market…

Dariush Hessami11 Dec, 2020

Front Office Insights

Conference Recap: Symphony Innovate 2020

With most conference events in 2020 migrating from their traditional physical environments into the digital realm, so it was the case for the Symphony Innovate 2020 event, which saw participants…

Dariush Hessami16 Oct, 2020

Quantitative Investment Strategies Unwrapped

The Private Credit Revolution

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

The Changing Role of the Sellside in Dynamic Commodities Markets

Navigating the Complexities of Short Selling in Global Markets

Harnessing Fixed Income Data: Powerful Insight Generation for Asset Managers

Beyond High-touch vs. Low-touch: Fit-for-the-Future Technology

Cash Equities Trading Landscape: 6 Trends to Watch in 2021

Beyond High-touch vs. Low-touch: What Investment Banks & Non-bank Brokers Need to Run their Trading Business

Conference Recap: Symphony Innovate 2020

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