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Despite former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler’s efforts to change how fixed income is traded, five years after the implementation of Dodd-Frank, little has changed.  Data from Greenwich Associates Quantifying Interest-Rate Swap Order Book...

according to a Greenwich Associates study sponsored by BlackRock, 95% of institutional investors now use equity ETFs and 65% use fixed-income ETFs.

Buy-side traders relying only on requests for quotes for interest-rate swaps pricing could be missing out on best execution by not taking order books into account, according to a new report from Greenwich Associates.

Three-quarters of institutional bond investors say that liquidity provided by bond dealers has declined in the past year, according to Greenwich Associates. The research with 51 money managers shows that 61% view the drop-off as a risk to their...

Greenwich Associates Kevin McPartland discusses the search of corporate bond liquidity on "Bloomberg Markets." 

“The growth in the short term is going to be in equities given that is where people are more comfortable with ETFs,” says Andrew McCollum, consultant at Greenwich Associates. “In the US, we are starting to see real growth in the fixed income side...

“It’s clear that many small businesses and midsized companies are not satisfied with the service they are getting from their banks,” says Dana Schwaeber, Greenwich Associates consultant.

Andrew McCollum, consultant at Greenwich Associates, says ETF usage usually starts with experimentation and expands as managers learn about their utility.  

“With fewer exchange operators in the world, the more pricing power each one would have,” says Kevin McPartland said. “I don’t think that would necessarily be the case; CME, ICE, Deutsche Bourse would all continue to operate in competition with each...

According to a recent study conducted by Greenwich Associates, nearly 70% of Canadian institutional investors now employ fixed income ETFs, significantly higher than in the United States or Europe.