Amid continued disruptions from the COVID-19 crisis and concerns about mounting inflation, U.S. asset owners leaned more heavily on the advice of their investment consultants last year.
Although regulators started the move to cleared derivatives, recent growth in derivatives clearing has been driven not by mandates, but by the maturing market structure.
Coalition Greenwich, the leading global provider of data, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, is pleased to announce the hiring of Todd Glickson as Head of Investment Management, North America.
Nearly a quarter of buy-side firms are investing in digital securities / security tokens and about another 40% of other institutions are conducting research to assess opportunities and risks in the nascent sector.
The creation of a spot Bitcoin ETF will help overcome hesitations among traditional financial advisors about recommending cryptocurrencies and could potentially bring countless retail advisory clients and billions of dollars in assets into crypto.
The typical U.S. buy-side firm has been using the same order management system for a decade. Despite this consistency, the OMS business is in a state of transformation, as functions, platforms and providers converge, and the entire business shifts to the cloud.
The impact of trends such as Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) and the retirement of LIBOR are increasingly evident in global markets as investors replace uncleared derivatives with cleared swaps, futures and options.