Waters Technology: At the height of the pandemic as the markets were rapidly fluctuating, US trading firms were having to both manage a remote workforce, as well as manage new types of compliance risks...
Bloomberg: “The dislocation over the next few months can be unsettling for both the glocal banks and their cash-management customers,” says Gaurav Arora.
Bloomberg: Corporations are among the most important customers of FX trading desks...
MarketsMedia: Greenwich Associates said in a report that the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a major shift in US equity trading volumes away from exchanges.
Bloomberg: The central bank’s intent to keep them low for the foreseeable future could mean the more-than $4 trillion U.S. ETF market sees a spate of launches like the fund planned by Janus Henderson, according to Ken Monahan.
The Trade:Trade surveillance technology spending has increased significantly due to compliance weaknesses identified during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Greenwich Associates.
Reuters: “I believe that credit portfolio trading will have profound effects on market structure,” Ken Monahan said.
Bloomberg: DWS and Greenwich Associates surveyed insurance-company clients with portfolios from $1 billion to more than $20 billion.
The Trade: A report from Greenwich Associates stated that anecdotally, some investors have found portfolio trading a useful way to adjust their portfolios during the crisis, because they can mix bonds that are easier to trade with ones...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: "There's a human nature element of it," said Kevin McPartland in an interview. "[Companies] have to start somewhere, so why not start with the [teams] where natural human interaction is most valuable?"
