While the bulge bracket continues to see the majority of trade flow, Greenwich Associates data shows a strong trend toward mid-tier brokers for both execution and research. Despite seeing a decline...
Cloud computing applications, like vendor-hosted execution management systems (EMS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), are common on Wall St., but most finance firms are underutilizing this resource...
As part of our annual equity investor study, Greenwich Associates asks how much volume investors are currently trading electronically and how much they expect to trade in the coming three years...
FX and fixed-income markets are both changing, but that is where the similarities end. Greenwich Associates research shows that buy-side demands and regulations impacting sell-side business models...
Greenwich Associates expects both usage rates and allocations to broaden as institutions embrace ETFs for an expanding number of applications and asset classes, and as ETF providers continue to...
Greenwich Associates has assembled this report to help corporate executives around the world compare the online platforms of corporate banks. The report contains a checklist of existing online...
The current slump in FX trading volumes has all the features of a cyclical decline. Thus far in 2014, hedge funds and central banks have slowed their FX trading, and the volatility seen in 2013 has...
Market structure change is a hot topic. While the textbook definition of market structure is widely known, what does it really mean in financial circles?
Today’s unprecedented pace of...
The financial crisis had a profound impact on both institutional investors and asset managers. In the wake of the crisis, institutional investors have sought to shore up their portfolios and...
Almost three quarters of global foreign exchange trading volumes (74%) were executed through electronic systems last year, up from 71% in 2012.
Continental Europe reported a decline in the...