The Desk: The size of the muni market is estimated at $4.2 trillion, and is about 18% electronically traded, up from 6% in 2015, according to Bob Fink.
IFR: “[The] surge in client activity to reshuffle investments and reposition hedges ... was very profitable for banks and other FX market makers,” said Angad Chhatwal.
Bloomberg: A newer crop of market makers, including Citadel Securities and Jane Street Group, are chipping away at banks’ dominance of the business. A group of them generated $25.6 billion of revenue from trades in equities, credit, currencies and...
Flow: Corporate treasurers will have to embrace innovative technology to meet new challenges facing their departments and rising expectations from the C-suite. Dr. Tobias Miarka, Head of Corporate Banking, draws on Crisil Coalition Greenwich...
Markets Media: Crisil Coalition Greenwich said in a report: “We expect the product range on derivatives exchanges to continue to expand with a particular focus on options markets, including options on ETFs. Across products, traders will continue to...
Global Trading: According to a survey conducted by the Futures Industry Association and Crisil Coalition Greenwich, 30% of market participants believe that Brazil has the greatest growth potential for their firms over the next two years.
Traders: “Effectively, baskets containing even a single U.S. Treasury bond could pull all other transactions into clearing—something industry experts aren’t ready to contend with,” said Audrey Costabile, Senior Analyst for Crisil Coalition Greenwich...
Bloomberg: Critics argue offerings such as outsourced trading desks mean a money manager loses a first-hand understanding of market conditions. They could also lose direct trading relationships with other banks. “The buy-side’s doing more with less...
Bloomberg: Twelve leading banks together made $500 million in revenue from precious metals in 1Q25, the second highest figure in a decade of data compiled by Crisil Coalition Greenwich. That’s approximately twice the average earnings per quarter...
The Desk: Kevin McPartland, head of research for market structure and technology, Crisil Coalition Greenwich said the electronification of fixed income has delivered the capability for traders to execute in the most volatile of market environments,...
