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BNP Paribas ist der Marktführer im europäischen Trade-Finance-Geschäft. Das geht aus einer Umfrage des US-Beratungshauses Greenwich Associates unter rund 500 CFOs und Treasurern aus großen europäischen Unternehmen hervor.

Institutional investors, in particular, are making use of the instruments, with one-third of respondents to a 2016 Greenwich Associates study saying they planned to increase their use of bond ETFs in the coming year. A similar percentage, 31%, said...

A recent study by Greenwich Associates of buy-side head traders found the majority are unsatisfied with the standard algorithms provided by their brokers, as they look for a more personalised way to execute trades.

Kevin Kozlowski said new regulations affecting asset managers, such as Mifid II in Europe or incoming rules affecting investment advisers in the US, have added to the cost pressures for fund companies. Management teams have responded by curtailing...

Fixed income participants in the US are planning the adoption of new electronic trading platforms.  A study by Greenwich Associates found 51% of credit investors based in the US are hoping to add new venues, although few are looking to replace...

McPartland described the impact on regulation to CoinDesk: "I’m not sure it will be better or worse, just a little bit different. If there is a more hands-off approach taken by financial regulators, that should allow the industry to more freely...

Greenwich Associates Managing Director Jay Bennett says of the dominant institutional investors in Asia: These are the largest investment organizations that face a more urgent need to be compliant with MiFID II and are moving to adopt practices...

U.S. investors paid $2 billion in brokerage commissions for corporate access in 2016, or more than a third of all the money spent on stock research and related services, according to consulting firm Greenwich Associates.

"While electronic trading growth in corporate bonds tends to make the headlines, improving the human-aided liquidity-seeking process is an increasingly huge part of the story," said Kevin McPartland, at Greenwich Associates, which polled around 2,...

Liquidity intelligence, helping to enable bilateral negotiations for illiquid bonds, is likely to be more important than the growth of electronic trading in fixed income, according to consultancy Greenwich Associates.