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The Desk: “Trading venues increasingly stand out based on their ability to provide price improvement, which today comes from access to unique liquidity. Unique liquidity can sometimes come from unique liquidity providers—perhaps an emerging...

eFinancialCareers: A new report from Greenwich Associates says buy-side firms (asset managers of all kinds) historically had three kinds of core technology system...

FinExtra: According to Greenwich Associates, one-third of US small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) are considering switching their financial provider due to their bank’s COVID-19 servicing failures.

Waters Technology: “Electronic trading in the CLO and loan market is still nascent, but given the current search for yield, the surge in electronic trading in fixed-income markets broadly, and technology already starting to take hold in these...

Traders: “Buy-side firms, particularly hedge funds, are increasingly moving to a converged solution for portfolio management purposes, alongside a well-orchestrated OMS and basic execution management system (EMS) functionality,” says David...

WSJ: Last year, prime services generated $15.2 billion in revenue for the largest global investment banks, according to industry data provider Coalition Greenwich.

P&I: Pensions and Investments spoke with President and Founder of Breckinridge  about the findings from the study with Greenwich Associates that found investment-grade fixed income to be the top asset class for ESG use.

Euromoney: This might not sound like a ringing endorsement of outsourcing until you consider that only 20% of equity traders surveyed for the firm’s Market Structure Trading and Technology Study a year earlier, in 2019, expressed a similar view...

The Trade: The average daily volume for fixed income electronic trading reached a new record of $10.6 billion in January earlier this year, according to Greenwich Associates.

WSJ: Coalition Greenwich, which tracks the dozen largest investment banks globally, reported an uptick in revenue-per-head of more than 40% from the prior year in fixed-income trading and about 20% across equities trading and deal making....