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“The parts of the banks’ trading business that have become less profitable since the financial crisis is where the principal trading firms are stepping in,” said McPartland, head of research for market structure and technology at Greenwich...

“Market data has become a huge business for exchanges — as well as a huge cost for the end investor,” Mr. McPartland said. “The fewer the exchange owners, the fewer the sources of data from one company.”

Kevin McPartland, who heads research on market structure at financial consultancy Greenwich Associates, thinks as more electronic traders enter the market, liquidity will eventually be improved during high-stress periods.  “The automated nature...

Through the first half of 2016, about $40 billion flowed into bond ETFs, with approximately half of that total flowing into iShares products. In the third annual version of “Institutional Investors Embrace Bond ETFs,” according to recent study by...

Kevin McPartland, head of market structure at Greenwich Associates, examines the 6.1 percent drop of the British pound in Asian trading and the frequency of flash crashes.

Likely due to increased regulatory burdens, 71 percent of the institutional investors in the Greenwich Associates study said trading bonds is tougher today than it was three years ago. About three-quarters of respondents are altering their...

"It's easy to track a phone call that led to a trade, but not so easy for a call that didn't," said Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology research, at Greenwich Associates. McPartland said that having a way to track all the data...

Greenwich Associates sees bond ETFs as an important alternative for institutions looking to make trades and adjust their portfolios: More than two-thirds of institutional investors, from investment managers to insurance providers surveyed this...

Exchange-traded funds have permeated almost every corner of the financial markets, but insurance companies have primarily kept their distance.

Greenwich Associates research shows that in 2016 58% of US Treasury trading by institutional investors was handled by the top five dealers.