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Investors globally spend more than $2 billion a year for corporate access, according to consulting firm Greenwich Associates.

Despite all the focus on MiFID, the plethora of news articles, and the cacophony of seminars, webinars and pop-up events, there are still a few things you might not know about MiFID.

The transaction will help ANZ, one of the top four corporate banks in the region as per Greenwich Associates, focus on its institutional banking ops, after having sold the retail and wealth business in five other Asian countries to DBS last year.

Consultants are extraordinarily selective and short list less than 10% of the managers tracked in their databases according to Greenwich Associates.

Andrew McCollum observes that investors are encouraged to see emerging-market countries broadly shifting from “resource-based, commodity-dependent economies to more diversified and dynamic economies.” This will be a dominant trend for the next...

Greenwich Associates estimates research commission spending will fall by nearly $200 million in the United States and by over 100 million euros ($107.12 million) in Europe over the 12 months following MiFID's implementation.

Around half of Treasuries, and nearly 60% of European government bonds, are now traded electronically, reckons Greenwich Associates.

The introduction of MiFID-related fees means asset managers in Europe and the U.S. will cut more than $300 million in spending on external research, consulting firm Greenwich Associates estimated in a recent study.

Asset managers in Europe and the U.S. may cut more than $300 million from research budgets in anticipation of regulations, suggested a Greenwich Associates survey of fund managers.

Vermögensverwalter in Europa und den USA könnten in Erwartung der neuen Regulierung mehr als 300 Mio. Dollar aus Analyse-Budgets streichen. Diesen Schluss legt auch eine Umfrage von Greenwich Associates unter Fondsmanagern nahe.