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Low-touch electronic equities brokers entered the summer of 2026 with swagger.
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U.S. Treasury trading in June continued its long-term uptrend, with volume growing 15% year over year, despite an 8% decline from a particularly active May.
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The human edge in electronic markets

Greenwich Report
June 2026 By: Jesse Forster
Institutional trading desks now operate within a market environment driven by speed, scale and steadily advancing electronic tools.
Buy-side trading desks have spent the last decade learning how to do more with less. At least 15% of them now augment their desks with outsourced trading providers.
Investment-grade bonds continued their journey toward flow status in May, with the average daily notional volume (ADNV) up 18% and electronic trading volume up 17% year over year.
As we noted last year, while the importance and influence of the largest traditional banks in global markets cannot be overstated, the gravitational pull of the “bulge bracket” nonbank liquidity providers (NBLPs) continues to intensify.
The Coalition Investment Bank Index, which tracks the performance of the 12 largest investment banks globally, demonstrated robust performance in FY25, rising 14.5% year over year to $174.7 billion.
For the past two years, U.S. global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) have operated under a regulatory overhang. Fearing a punitive Basel III endgame that initially threatened a ~20% hike in capital requirements, the industry built significant...
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