Bloomberg: The corporate bond market has been steadily going electronic for years, but traders in one of the fastest-growing parts are bucking the trend.
Bloomberg: "The electronic-trading platforms have an extraordinarily powerful incentive to develop a solution for this, it’s a growing source of credit market liquidity at scale,” said Ken Monahan.
Investment News: A financial transaction tax wouldn’t just hit the markets; the impact would be widespread, and it would even hit individual investors’ 401(k) plans,” Shane Swanson said.
ETF Stream: Last November, a Greenwich Associates study projected US institutional investors were set to double their allocations to liquid alternative ETFs.
The Trade News: “Innovative solutions that further expand data access while limiting information leakage will prove a key piece of the market’s next evolutionary stage," said Kevin McPartland.
Finance Magnates: Greenwich Associates study shows that a wide range of market players plan to enhance focus on social considerations in ESG approach.
Institutional Asset Manager: ESG factors have grown more important since the onset of pandemic, with a new study conducted by Greenwich Associates showing the ‘social’ aspect coming into greater focus.
Financial News: Fund managers are paying more attention to social considerations, such as labour rights and diversity, than they were prior to the outbreak of coronavirus, according to Greenwich Associates.
Risk: Greenwich Associates found that electronic trading increased around 14% during the peak of the liquidity crisis in March and April.
Bloomberg: Buy-side firms’ most-cited reaction to market uncertainty was to move toward more phone-based trading, with 31% listing it as their response during the early days of the outbreak, according to Greenwich Associates.
