The dearth of client trading activity in Japanese government bonds has triggered a push by the country’s largest domestic fixed-income dealers into non-yen products, particularly non-yen government bonds.
The opening of China’s stock markets to offshore investors has increased the importance of China and Hong Kong to both brokers and investors in Asian equities.
After several years in which the Japan’s biggest domestic equity brokers added to their already impressive levels of market share, the country’s brokerage industry settled into a state of at least temporary equilibrium in 2015.
The country’s biggest banks have established themselves as the strongest brands among U.S. middle market companies—a segment that is growing in the form of increased demand for credit and other banking services.
Pay levels in asset management in 2015 are projected to be slightly lower, according to a new report, Say Goodbye to Buy-Side Boom Times, from Greenwich Associates and Johnson Associates.
The competitive positioning of Europe’s leading fixed-income dealers is increasingly defined by regulations and banks’ strategic responses to new rules that have altered the economics of the business.
Greenwich Associates today announced the 2015 Greenwich Share and Quality Leaders in Flow Equity Derivatives and Convertibles in Europe and North America.