The market for U.S. Treasurys is changing. Constrained balance sheets are pushing banks to hold fewer bonds and instead act as facilitators of big trades, according to Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology at Greenwich Associates...
“Inclusion of a well-capitalized, well-rated firm onto the primary dealer list can only be a positive for the Treasury market,” Kevin McPartland, head of research for market structure and technology at financial-services consulting firm Greenwich...
Constrained balance sheets are pushing banks to hold less bonds and instead act as facilitators of big trades, according to Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology at Greenwich Associates. In that environment, making money in rates...
If investors are right that it’s getting harder to trade bonds, it’s not for lack of places for buyers and sellers to meet. The bond market now has 99 electronic platforms to facilitate fixed-income trading from London to New York and Singapore...
While global banks retained their top positions as Greenwich Leaders in Asian Large Corporate Banking, the stability of this list masks a structural shift taking place across the industry. The large global banks that have long dominated Asian...
Despite former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler’s efforts to change how fixed income is traded, five years after the implementation of Dodd-Frank, little has changed. Data from Greenwich Associates Quantifying Interest-Rate Swap Order Book...
according to a Greenwich Associates study sponsored by BlackRock, 95% of institutional investors now use equity ETFs and 65% use fixed-income ETFs.
Buy-side traders relying only on requests for quotes for interest-rate swaps pricing could be missing out on best execution by not taking order books into account, according to a new report from Greenwich Associates.
Three-quarters of institutional bond investors say that liquidity provided by bond dealers has declined in the past year, according to Greenwich Associates. The research with 51 money managers shows that 61% view the drop-off as a risk to their...
Greenwich Associates Kevin McPartland discusses the search of corporate bond liquidity on "Bloomberg Markets."
