Approximately 60% of Indian middle-market companies expect the implementation of the national Goods and Services Tax (GST) to have a positive impact on their businesses.
Although most analysis of MiFID II’s regulations has focused on the unbundling of research, implementation of the new directive will also have a major impact on trading.
The rapid advance of India’s private banks will continue and possibly even accelerate as these providers impress middle-market companies with high-quality platforms and service, and public sector competitors wrestle with the consequences of non-performing loans.
In a move that might seem surprising in an era of data breaches and hacking scandals, many of the companies working to bring the blockchain to global financial markets have decided to release the code to their technology as open-source software.
Often frustrated by the fragmentation of U.S. equity markets, the buy side has always valued dark pools, where they can source unique liquidity or execute larger block trades. This Greenwich Associates research paper provides an in-depth analysis of buy-side dark pool usage and expected changes in behavior in the coming years.
With less than a year to go before the implementation of MiFID II, institutional investors and brokers are racing to create ways to determine the true value of sell-side research.
Despite continued liquidity shortages in many global fixed-income markets, corporate bond execution venues and offerings that were a mere idea a few years ago are finally consolidating and starting to bear fruit—making it easier for investors to execute certain trades.
Despite the trend towards electronic trading, voice communications between traders and their clients still sit at the heart of global financial markets.