Research
Investment ideas to watch for in 2021: Digital transformation, e-commerce, fintech and digital payments
The pace of digital transformation could see a rapid acceleration in 2021 that goes beyond communications and e-commerce, as the economy recovers and businesses spend more on cloud technology and on-premises products.
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Investment ideas to watch for in 2021: Green recovery
The low-carbon economy's future is now, and on track to stunt oil demand permanently below 2019’s level. A perfect storm created by the pandemic and the global economic crisis has accelerated this shift.
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Equity strategy investment ideas to watch for in 2021: Value, small cap and emerging markets
Stocks are likely to look through the winter macroeconomic freeze to an imminent Covid-19 vaccine in 2021, resulting in strengthening performance amid rising allocations to riskier segments of the equity market in the year ahead.
Report
Equity trading: Improving best execution by predicting broker-algorithm performance
A growing trend in equity buy-side trading desks is to use algorithm wheels to improve best-execution processes.
Q&A
Clearing firms prevent 'cascading failures': Q&A with Larry Tabb
The rarely discussed role that clearing firms play in settling stock trades is at the heart of what caused Robinhood and other brokerages to restrict trading of some companies this week.
Article
Credit risk in 2021: Prepare for more unknowns
An oil price war, the global COVID-19 pandemic, increased political and trade frictions, and a number of climate-related events certainly made 2020 a year of unprecedented challenges for credit risk managers.
Research
From cyberpunks and speculators to 60/40 mix: Bitcoin 2017-21
Bitcoin's price-discovery stage points to the next threshold vs. gold, around 100x an ounce, as its upward trajectory has legs.
Article
Is liquidity still simmering?
Market and Credit risk remain in focus across the industry, however liquidity risk metrics supporting the execution of trading strategies have once again fallen into the spotlight since the pandemic up-ended the apple cart in March 2020.
Article
Bringing the dealer-to-client repo market to the digital age
One part of the fixed income market still eludes widespread electronification: the dealer-to-client repo market.
Research
2021 Outlook: North America banks
Large U.S. banks and their regional counterparts could face lower credit-provision costs in 2021.