On May 28, 2024, U.S. equity trades will settle next day. While this might evoke a sense of déjà vu, it is different this time. Really. In 1995, U.S. securities settlement shortened from T+5 to T+3. Soon after, advocacy groups and management...

What started as panic selling from the Fed’s extreme tightening in Q1 2022 turned into excited buying by retail investors in Q4, with tax-loss harvesting and tax-free (and low-risk) yields nearing 5% offering what many saw as the chance of a...

After years of mediocre growth, FX execution algorithm adoption is looking up. Most buy-side segments have witnessed a healthy rise in the use of algos since 2020, especially on the real money side. Both fund managers and hedge funds have seen an...

A recently published Coalition Greenwich research study found that trading in credit-focused ETFs has grown notably relative to the underlying corporate bond market (what we’re calling the ETF-to-cash ratio). In notional terms, the volume traded in...

Most buy-side and sell-side firms are seeking to implement modern technology (e.g., cloud computing, AI, APIs) across the trade lifecycle for many reasons, from cost reduction to increasing their competitive position. As with much of today’s tech,...

For the past few years, a large percentage of the digital asset community has gravitated to vertically integrated platforms to trade, settle, custody, and lend/borrow digital assets. Vertically integrated business models have been a convenient way...

We recently gathered input from 16 corporate-bond liquidity providers, examining their views on liquidity, where they see opportunities for innovation and the market’s next step forward. Their key areas of planned investment—direct connectivity to...

Coalition Greenwich recently partnered with Google Cloud to conduct research examining how cloud and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are powering market data distribution and consumption in institutional capital markets....

Please join us as we discuss some of the operational and technology challenges the collateral management industry is facing today and how Fintech (including software and cloud) can generate operational efficiency and where distributed ledger...

The equity market, it seems, is again obsessed with dark pools.  Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) have recently seen investment and purchases at an astounding level.  In just the last few months we have seen the purchase of...