In the most recent edition of State Street’s award-winning Digital Digest publication, experts looked at the interrelated nature of financial services and how new developments are a product of multiple inputs. As with previous changes to the way capital markets infrastructure operates, the evolution of digital assets and…

Join State Street experts for their webinar Old Challenges and New Frontiers: Private Market Trends in the 2020s. The discussion is based on a survey of 480 investment institutions fielded in Q4 2022, with respondents split evenly between traditional asset managers, private markets-specific asset managers, asset owners and…

The Canada Pension Plan has prospered by investing in alternative markets such as private equity and debt, becoming a model for institutional investors around the world. Today, global pools of private capital stand at over $12 trillion, doubling in just six years.

The start of 2024 sees an economic environment where growth in developed economies is slowing as restrictive monetary policy makes itself felt. Investors looking to alternative markets for portfolio diversification and the potential for attractive returns.

Tune in for the latest from portfolio manager Arnout van Rijn. Currently, US yields have reached 5%. The earnings season is off to a promising start, with a significant number of companies exceeding expectations.

Antoinette Schoar unravels the complexities and risks associated with cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance.

The fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) system aims to build a new financial architecture that can eliminate the need for traditional intermediaries and reduce rents in the financial sector — but it also generates formidable challenges for market participants and regulators.

In the latest episode of WellSaid, Portfolio Manager Matt Lipton and Global Industry Analyst Matt Ross join host Thomas Mucha to discuss their outlook for fintech in today's environment, exploring the recent pullback in the sector, disruptive fintech innovations, potential regulation, and much more.

Things are heating up, in different senses of the phrase. Just like a century ago, we are emerging from an international crisis with the potential of an economic boom. But unlike the Roaring Twenties, the growing optimism is being tempered by the threat of an even greater crisis: climate change. Now in its 11th edition,…

Catastrophe bonds – the reinsurance debt instruments linked to natural disasters and one of the most profitable hedge fund strategies of 2023 – are in high demand right now. This episode of Long Story Short investigates why.

Bitcoin will go through its quadrennial halving on April 19, which will tighten supply. Will prices rally like in past halvings?

Michael Metcalfe and Nitin Gaur reflect on lessons learned from the volatile crypto market.

How does indexing work for cryptocurrency and digital assets? S&P DJI’s Sharon Liebowitz discusses how indices are bringing transparency to digital assets, key components of index design, and potential use cases for index-based crypto strategies.

Prof. Cam Harvey joins Long Story Short for a special bonus episode to discuss his book ‘DeFi and the Future of Finance’ and the collapse of FTX.

Portfolio Manager Matt Lipton and Global Industry Analyst Matt Ross join host Thomas Mucha to discuss their outlook for fintech in today's environment, exploring the recent pullback in the sector, disruptive fintech innovations, potential regulation, and much more.

Crypto exchange FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried were some of the crypto industry’s brightest stars. But that changed this week when FTX faced a liquidity crisis and froze customer withdrawals. Now regulators and investors are raising questions about financial practices at FTX and a sister firm, Alameda Research.

State Street Digital’s Nitin Gaur and Jay Biancamano talk about the Ethereum merge and how it points to the future of governance in a defi environment, as well as how existing financial service institutions and ecosystems will operate in a digital and tokenized investment world.

Leading voices from the cryptocurrency industry, including Binance CEO 'CZ' and Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, and Financial Times reporters tell the story of how the cryptocurrency industry ballooned into a market worth more than $2 trillion with little regulatory oversight. How did regulators lose control and can they…

Cryptocurrencies have attracted widespread interest among private investors and even some hedge funds as a vehicle for speculation. But what’s their role in a portfolio – growth engine or diversifier? State Street explores the potential role of bitcoin in multi-asset portfolios based on their track record for diversifying…

Risk Management will continue to be a key factor in financial markets in 2024 as an age of uncertainty persists. Tim McCourt of CME Group and Kevin McPartland of Coalition Greenwich discuss the major market themes for 2024, including AI and Crypto.