Earlier this year, Greenwich Associates estimated that the annual pool of cash equity commissions paid by institutional investors to brokers on U.S. equity trades in 2016 to be $9.65 billion. This amount is down more than 30% from its 2009 peak.
“In theory, a Republican-led Washington should bring with it a certain level of deregulation,” said Kevin McPartland. “But Trump isn’t your typical GOP president-elect, so his exact focus and its impact on markets is still a big unknown. That said,...
Asian trade finance remains a buyers’ market, with companies able to secure rock-bottom pricing from a host of banks fighting to win their business. However, both banks and corporates are starting to adjust to the new normal of low rates and...
According to Greenwich Associates, 32% of the firms have no social media marketing strategy, and only 38% of asset managers use paid (or sponsored) advertising on social media.
According to a January survey by Greenwich Associates, 57 percent of institutional investors use multifactor ETFs in some way while 48 percent said they planned on increasing their holdings in the near future. The firm projects institutional ETF...
Citigroup’s broader U.S. interest-rate business, ranked second in the U.S. in a 2016 study by Greenwich Associates.
Wall Street trading desks need a new fitness routine. That's a polite way of saying they're bloated, and they need to get leaner as costs rise and revenues fall. It's the conclusion of a study of 3,000 investors by Kevin McPartland at Greenwich...
CBA and Wells Fargo, which is based in San Francisco, aren’t the only banks actively experimenting in this area. Globally, Greenwich Associates estimated that the annual budget for blockchain initiatives hit $1 billion this year.
Amid dozens of experiments by banks and other players, this is among the first commercial products to result from an outpouring of investment into blockchain, which some technology analysts have warned will fail to live up to the hype generated by...
"The more information regulators have about the market's functioning, participants and asset prices the better. Furthermore, we don't believe additional transparency to regulators will have any impact on liquidity," said Kevin McPartland, head of...
