Research

UBS’s head trader for commercial mortgage backed securities denied claims of trying to influence research reports published by the Swiss bank’s former senior strategist for CMBS products.

The only major Wall Street strategist with an official price forecast for bitcoin turned "cautious" as the digital currency soared above $7,000 to records.

Brokers in the US can breathe a sigh of relief today, as the country's securities regulator agreed with the European Commission a way for firms to work around hurdles posed by sweeping new EU markets reforms.

Credit Suisse is considering a market-beating price for basic fixed-income research after the introduction of new European regulations next year: zero.

JPMorgan Chase is proposing to charge as little as $10,000 a year for equity research, the lowest price to emerge so far, as the Wall Street giant seeks to grab market share when a European ban on free analysis for clients is imposed, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

Barclays' clients may have to pay as much as ($455,000) to get the top service package from its equities analysts once free research is banned in Europe, the first price for stocks coverage to emerge from a major bank.

Wall Street banks may not be able to sell their U.S. research to European asset managers because a regulatory conflict between the two regions looks unlikely to be resolved before a January deadline.

Asset-managers in Europe and the U.S. will probably cut more than $300 million from research budgets in anticipation of regulations aimed at rooting out conflicts of interest in the market for investment information.

UBS has brought in psychologists, data scientists, shipments specialists and pricing experts to overhaul how it generates investment ideas and recommendations for clients.