Press Releases

Shifting Roles of Managers and Consultants Threaten the Status Quo

October 19, 2017

With roughly 90% of institutional investors relying on consultants for guidance, maximizing the impact of these relationships represents a huge challenge to asset managers and a significant opportunity for those firms that execute seamlessly. 

Institutional Investors Unhappy with Tick Size Pilot

October 17, 2017

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should consider ending the failed Tick-Size Pilot in small-cap stocks early to free up time and resources for other experiments in equity market regulation, such as the proposed Access Fee Pilot Program, stock exchange “speed-bumps” and reforms or even the removal of the Order Protection Rule (OPR).

Large U.S. Companies Shopping For New Corporate Banks

October 12, 2017

The 2017 Greenwich Share Leaders in U.S. Large Corporate Banking and Cash Management have one thing in common: They all saw their market footprints shrink last year, several intentionally. 

Global Trade Finance: Ripe For Disruptive Change?

October 12, 2017

Once considered a staid business, trade finance could be emerging as a hub of innovation and disruptive change. 

Patent Rush Won't Impede Blockchain Innovation

October 10, 2017

A rush to protect intellectual capital related to the blockchain does not signal the start of a potentially innovation-stifling patent war, but rather is a sign that the technology is moving into the corporate mainstream.

Technology Spending Key to Fixed-Income Market Share Growth

October 3, 2017

The top six U.S. government bond dealers have an aggregate annual technology budget of $26 billion. That astounding figure illustrates the extent to which technology prowess has become the key determinant of success or failure for banks competing in capital markets. 

Improvements to Successful New Derivatives Market Structure Could Reduce Risk and Save Banks and Investors Billions

September 26, 2017

Banks and their customers could reduce risk, save billions of dollars and improve investment returns by optimizing their portfolios in the newly reformed interest rate derivatives market—all while reducing the risk in the system. 

Investors Seek Solutions to Liquidity Shortages in Off-The-Run Treasuries

September 20, 2017

 Institutional investors are open to a range of new solutions to counteract diminished liquidity in the market for off-the-run U.S. Treasuries.

Catching The Wave: The Spread of ESG in Institutional Investment Portfolios

September 19, 2017

More than a quarter of North American institutions use environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards in their investment portfolios, and approximately 60% of institutions that have not yet incorporated ESG into their portfolios say they are open to doing so in the future.

Surviving the Passive Tide

September 13, 2017

A new study from Greenwich Associates recommends that active managers should be experimenting with new products, alternative data sets and other innovative investment tools to make their offerings more attractive relative to low-cost passive strategies.