Corporate bond investors are well taken care of. Markets are more transparent, electronic and generally more accessible than they’ve ever been. The path to this point certainly wasn’t smooth. In the early 2000s, TRACE reporting, MarketAxess and...

Repo and U.S. Treasury clearing will increase in 2026. The SEC finally put forth, voted on and passed a final rule laying out their long-expected approach to mandatory clearing for this systemically important market after years of industry...

In the ever-evolving landscape of capital markets, the relentless march of tokenization is reshaping the industry. Traditional financial institutions, often perceived as slow to adopt innovations, are now making decisive moves into production beyond...

The role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision-making has generated both positive and negative publicity. Fixed-income portfolio managers have indicated that ESG is a factor in their investment decision-making...

With our connectivity to the buy-side, Coalition Greenwich conducted a “flash study” on investor sentiment in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. We asked equities, fixed-income and foreign exchange (FX) institutional investors about the...

Following recommendations from the SEC's Fixed Income Market Structure Committee (FIMSAC), FINRA is proposing a pilot program to test the impact of changing the reporting requirements for large corporate bond trades. Pilot programs can be good...

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...

This was my first time chatting with Betty Liu at Bloomberg TV, which I really enjoyed. We discussed why the Fed shouldn't hyper focus on short term market volatility, how bond market liquidity has changed but a crisis isn't likely, and last but not...

The anniversary of the Treasury "flash crash" and next week's market structure meeting at the NY Fed has brought with it a renewed focus on the functioning of the US Treasury trading. In an effort to provider further clarity into how this...

Our conversations with dealers over the past few months have left us wondering if volume weighted market share is the right metric for gauging success in fixed income dealing.  In past years market share always brought with it bragging rights,...