You can't really blame Deutsche Bank for getting out of the swaps clearing business .  It has been 7 years since Dodd-Frank was passed, and four years since clearing mandates took effect in the US, and clearing swaps for customers still falls...

The years since the financial crisis have brought with them amazing amounts of change, innovation, disruption and more recently optimism. At Greenwich Associates we're lucky enough to have a client list that includes some of the smartest and...

Over the last decade we've seen the talent pool for trading and space exploration become increasingly overlapped.  Science-based PhDs can now either send a man to Mars or help make markets in US Government Bonds.  But that's not actually...

The majority of startups fail.  A little googling told me that over 90% fail within three years.  Despite the fact that the cost of starting a company has decreased considerably via cloud computing and open source technology, taking into...

Market structure principles, not prescriptions, are needed for the U.S. Treasury market The U.S. Treasury market needs more oversight. Our research and my personal observations over the past several years have made that clear.  Oversight,...

From a fund type perspective, it should come as no surprise that hedge funds - nearly 90% of those in our study - use derivatives, above the roughly 60% of asset managers that do the same.  Their leveraged approach to investing coupled with...

Last week I attended the sold-out Empire Startups FinTech conference in NYC. From the moment I walked in I realized this was not your typical stop on the conference circuit. The venue was Webster Hall – a downtown nightclub venue repurposed for...

I can’t say I was ever really a fan of Joan Armatrading, but her 1983 hit “Drop the Pilot” comes to mind following the Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee’s (EMSAC) recommendation for an Access Fee Pilot Program. Maker-taker pricing refers...

Interviews earlier this year with nearly 60 global bond investors found that more than expected - 29% - either currently make prices in the corporate bond market or plan ton do so in the next 12 months.  In and of itself this finding...

In my first blog post on the evolving blockchain technology landscape I wrote about how, following the hype of 2015, this year would see technology companies and financial services firms explore different ways to use the blockchain technology in...