Over 60% of trading in the U.S. Treasury market is done via electronic trading venues. Many market observers believe this means that the relationships between dealers and bond investors are eroding and that the marketplace has become devoid of human...

Last month retail investors jumped at the opportunity to own a piece of the hottest new tech stock, sending shares of Dropbox 35% higher from its IPO price. This kind of one-day price move is rarely seen in the stock market these days but has...

There are several ways active asset managers put alt data to work in an effort to gain an edge in the market. Learn more as Kevin McPartland, Head of Market Structure and Technology Research at Greenwich Associates, joins Jill Malandrino at the...

For most people, cryptocurrency is synonymous with Bitcoin. Bitcoin was the original and is the largest and most successful. Today however there are almost 1,000 other cryptocurrencies and tokens in circulation, according to CoinMarketCap. For the...

While market sizes are often measured in the trillions of dollars, the number of firms that are responsible for the majority of transactions is measured in the hundreds if not the teens.  Examples of this are numerous.  According to...

The years since the financial crisis have brought with them amazing amounts of change, innovation, disruption and more recently optimism. At Greenwich Associates we're lucky enough to have a client list that includes some of the smartest and...

Over the last decade we've seen the talent pool for trading and space exploration become increasingly overlapped.  Science-based PhDs can now either send a man to Mars or help make markets in US Government Bonds.  But that's not actually...

The majority of startups fail.  A little googling told me that over 90% fail within three years.  Despite the fact that the cost of starting a company has decreased considerably via cloud computing and open source technology, taking into...

From a fund type perspective, it should come as no surprise that hedge funds - nearly 90% of those in our study - use derivatives, above the roughly 60% of asset managers that do the same.  Their leveraged approach to investing coupled with...

Last week I attended the sold-out Empire Startups FinTech conference in NYC. From the moment I walked in I realized this was not your typical stop on the conference circuit. The venue was Webster Hall – a downtown nightclub venue repurposed for...