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Bloomberg:“This is where the real potential of blockchain comes in, where assets are digitized as opposed to a purely post-trade infrastructure solution,” said Richard Johnson.

Traders: Although overall technology spending by asset managers have been relatively flat for the past few years, spending on the risk management has grown, said Kevin McPartland.

PlanSponsor: A new ETF market analysis from Greenwich Associates shows institutions continue relying on ETFs as “a liquid, fast and relatively low-cost tool.

Forbes: This is why a recent study by Greenwich Associates got my attention...

ETF.com: It's that time of year again: The Greenwich Associates' 2017 U.S. Exchange-Traded Funds Study, conducted in collaboration with BlackRock, is hot off the presses.

Euromoney: David Stryker, says there has been an increase of one third in the proportion of the largest/most active corporates using algos – despite there being no further significant increase in their use among organizations trading less than $50...

PlanSponsor: “Portfolio managers and their trading desks primarily choose [investment] instruments based solely on personal experience rather than through an analytical process,” says Kevin McPartland.

Bloomberg: “The comfort zone isn’t always the right place to be,” wrote Kevin McPartlan.

FTSE: “In the past, banks could afford to postpone technology and analytics investments in favor of relationship managers and other staples—those days are over,” explains Duncan Banfield.

Bloomberg: “It was hard for foreign exchange dealers to make money in 2017,” wrote James Borger and Satnam Sohal. "That extended period of frustratingly slow market activity was just the breather banks needed to get their FX desks prepped and ready...