Central clearing and trade reporting are at the center of global financial reform. Following the implementation of swaps central clearing requirements in 2013 and swap trading requirements in 2014,...
Intense competition among banks for trade finance business in Asia provides companies with opportunities to obtain lower pricing for these important products and services.
Such opportunities...
The pace of change in both the financial markets and the development of the technology underpinning them has increased exponentially since the introduction of the first market data delivery systems...
European banks are feeling the impact of regulations, finding it difficult to compete in fixed income with capital-constrained balance sheets. As a result, better-capitalized U.S. banks — and...
Greenwich Associates conducted its first U.S. Fixed-Income ExchangeTraded Fund Study to better understand how institutional investors use ETFs in their fixed-income portfolios. The study findings...
Over the next year, 30% of buy-side institutions will actively explore replacing or supplementing the technology that services their trading desks.
Several factors are driving the desire to...
FX swaps and forwards received exemptions from trading and clearing requirements imposed on derivatives in other asset classes. However, they will still feel the impact of trade reporting...
Given the head-spinning amount of market structure changes made in 2013, one might think the pace of change will slow in 2014: Greenwich Associates does not see this to be the case. In no particular...
An analysis of current industry and user trends, including:
The expected elevated amount of vendor evaluations by buy-side institutions in the coming year.
Budget changes...
Investment management firms see international expansion as an important pathway to future growth. Due to the demands and complexities associated with any cross-border venture, however, asset managers...