Press Releases

No More Easy Growth: Electronic Trading Platforms Fight for Business in U.S. Equities

February 1, 2018

Amid a maturing market for electronic trades and what appears to be a secular slowdown in investor trading activity, e-trading platforms will have to fight to capture market share from rivals and rely on innovation as a source of future growth.

As AI Technology Matures, Executives are Increasingly Open to Robo-Advisers and expect 24-hour Credit Decisions

January 30, 2018

Owners and executives of small and mid-sized companies are taking their experiences and expectations as online consumers to their bank relationships.

In Fixed-Income, Banks Prepare for Long-Awaited Catalyst

January 25, 2018

Banks around the world are upgrading—or at the very least, maintaining—the talent and technology of their fixed-income platforms to take full advantage when volatility and client trading activity and revenues return.

EFM Platforms for Customer Experience (CX): Tools, Not Strategies

January 23, 2018

Although EFM platforms designed to save money and “digitally transform” their customer experience (CX) programs have failed to live up to the promise, companies should not give up or lose hope. There is a way to cure the EFM hangover. 

Solvency II Rules Trigger Flood of Insurance Company Investments in Real Estate and Infrastructure Debt

January 16, 2018

One-third of continental European insurance companies expect to increase investment portfolio allocations to real estate and infrastructure in the next three years.

After A Resurgent 2017, Asian Equity Brokers Brace For MiFID II Shake-Up

January 16, 2018

A surge in equity market valuations and a rebound in trading activity provided a major boost to Asia’s brokers in 2017. However, this is tempered by worry about the looming impact of MiFID II, which could make 2018 a messy year. 

MiFID II Has Already Shrunk European Equity Research Industry by $300 Million

January 9, 2018

New MiFID II rules on payments for investment research that went into effect January 3 have already shrunk the market for European equity research by an annual $300 million, and the ultimate impact of the regulations likely won’t be evident before the end 2018

The Digital Year is Upon Us

January 3, 2018

2017 was politically strange,  economically strong and eerily calm—but in the new year, according to the Greenwich Associates list of Top Market Structure Trends to Watch in 2018, technology dominates.

Looking Under the Hood of the Modern U.S. Treasury Market

December 12, 2017

U.S. Treasury market participants and regulators alike are surprisingly in the dark about some of the market’s inner workings—especially when it comes to the rapid changes brought on by the advance of electronic trading. 

U.S. Equity Investors Question Value of Electronic Market Makers

December 7, 2017

Liquidity from electronic market makers has become an integral part of the U.S. equity market, but the firms that deliver it remain largely unknown to many institutional investors whose trades often involve these little-understood firms. This opacity has created a level of fear among investors about the quality and reliability of electronic market makers.