A return of search for yield may leave emerging markets and high-yield out, suggests Koen Straetmans, senior strategist, multi-asset at NN Investment Partners.

Large banks which spend between US$6 billion and $9 billion processing standardised trades each year, and could reduce those costs by up to 40 percent by adopting a “utility” model, according to a new study by Broadridge Financial Solutions.

Key issues: China takes a relaxed view regarding lower GDP growth; Fed undecided: key interest rates stay at just above 0 per cent; Oil market remains oversupplied; Asset Allocation: equities continue to be overweighted

The ICMA-NAFMII Working Group has issued its first report, called ‘Practices and procedures in the Chinese and international primary debt capital markets’. 

Alan Higgins, UK chief investment officer for Coutts, considers the Federal Reserve's decision to leave rates unchanged.

ISDA, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has launched a new industry data project. 

Independent fund and corporate services provider Crestbridge is to expand into the Cayman Islands in response to continued growth and client demand.

Ahead of today’s US Federal Reserve meeting, independent strategist Olivier Desbarres argues that it is the US Federal Reserve’s lack of a unified message which has kept markets on tenterhooks ahead of the policy meeting.

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, says it will launch seven-year and 20-year US Dollar Deliverable Swap Futures (DSF) on September 28, 2015. 

By Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Head of Multi-Asset at NN Investment Partners

Talk about a currency war, doubts about Chinese policymakers’ credibility and worries over the Chinese economic slowdown and its ripple effects have ignited risk aversion among investors. 

The declines in Western stock markets have been a knee-jerk reaction in thin summer trading, says John Chatfeild-Roberts, head of the Jupiter Independent Funds Team. In a just-issued short note, he comments on events in China and suggests where to find value once the dust has settled.

US Corporate Bond Trading Technology Update: The End of the Beginning is a new report from Celent, authored by Brad Bailey, a research director with its Capital Markets practice.

To remain competitive in today's financial advice industry, broker-dealers must recalibrate their relationships with their advisors to according to a white paper released today by Pershing LLC, part of the BNY Mellon group.

Why Teams Are the Client of the Future for Broker-Dealers points out that changes in the advisor-client of the modern broker-dealer present different challenges and opportunities that broker-dealers must navigate.

Speaking on the current market volatility, Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Head of Multi-Asset at NN Investment Partners, says: "In the aftermath of the shocking devaluation of the Chinese currency, markets remained focussed on fragility in the broader emerging market complex. 

From New York, Genpact, a specialist in designing, transforming, and running intelligent business operations, reports the expansion of its Genpact OpenWealth business, which provides wealth management services to wrap platforms, insurers, banks, brokers, wealth, and asset managers. 

Technology investor Mercia Fund Management (Mercia) has launched its sixth EIS and SEIS hybrid fund. 

James Spence, managing partner of Cerno Capital, comments on how investors should respond to moves in the Chinese economy

In terms of long-term investment in China, investors should not make the mistake of assuming there is some cohesive plan in Beijing - there is not.

Clearstream reports that its July 2015 figures record a new peak in assets under custody and continuing growth in all business areas.

Objectway, a provider of software and services to the EMEA investment management industry, says it has signed an agreement to acquire BETA Global, a European wealth and investment transaction processing system, from Thomson Reuters.

Three quarters (75 percent) of institutional investors believe the impact of a British exit from the European Union would be negative, including 18 percent who believe it would be extremely so, according to a recent survey undertaken by NN Investment Partners.*