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Pay levels in the asset management industry are on the decline in 2016, marking the second consecutive year of reduced compensation for professionals at traditional money management firms and the third for hedge funds, said a new report by Greenwich...

A report from Greenwich Associates finds improved market quality in US interest-rate derivatives trading six years after the Dodd-Frank Act took effect.

About $500 billion of Treasuries trade each day, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Just under half of that takes place one-on-one between dealers and their clients, according to a report last year by the Federal...

Despite growth of trading technologies, the role and expertise of the sales trader in fixed-income and equity trading desks is still critical to serving clients, whether they prefer high-touch or low-touch trading services.

Research firm Greenwich Associates polled more than 130 executives working on blockchain in capital markets in June and found that transaction confidentiality was their top security concern, with 56% of respondents citing it as their primary worry.

No need to dump central clearing and electronic trading mandates...

“This is a smart, successful, entrepreneur who has built a successful Treasury businesses in the past,” said Kevin McPartland, head of market structure at Greenwich Associates. “You have to put some stock in the fact he would not take that decision...

“ New best execution requirements and pending regulatory mandates like MiFID II will force firms to demonstrate they can effectively store, analyze and report on their execution data,” said Richard Johnson, VP Market Structure and Technology at...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And when it comes to U.S equity market structure issues and fixes, the buy-side wants to see some answers. And so far – nothing of any substance.  That’s according to a recent report from...

Despite years of strenuous effort by regulators to clean up equity research by stopping fund managers paying for it out of their clients' pockets, research still accounts for half of all trading commissions paid to banks by larger fund managers.