Risk

FinApps has filed a lawsuit that claims the data aggregator swiped its proprietary software, according to its lawyer Marc Kasowitz.

Fixed-income products designed to minimize interest rate risk are among the leaders.

While some firms have been successful at leveraging technology to scale sales and marketing processes, others have failed.

The bank has been slashing expenses, but executives acknowledged they remain high. Between having to hire thousands of compliance employees and waiting on the next CEO to be named, investments in new technology or other long-term growth are limited.

A new report asks whether the products have the potential to spark another crisis despite being created at the urging of the SEC to reduce risk.

Many relatively straightforward products have boosted their holdings of lower-rated bonds and emerging markets to juice returns.

The No. 1 independent broker-dealer failed to properly register more than 650 reps as agents, the prominent state regulator says.

Markets have been whipsawed by mounting concern over softer economic data and President Trump’s trade wars with major partners.

Geopolitical risk, dovish central banks and an aging business cycle are reinforcing bullish moorings in global debt.