A recent Greenwich Associates study entitled "The Big Sales Trading Upgrade" found that 70 percent of certified trading desks are either to remain flat or decrease head count this year. The report's authors found an even split, with 35 percent...
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Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology research at Greenwich Associates, believes that discussion of migration from OTC to exchange fails to take account of some of the nuances of the FX market and that the future lies in venues...
The equities focus is part of a desperate hunt for growth across Wall Street. After five-plus years of weak results, banks are lifting every rock to find revenue underneath. First-quarter results underscored that trend. "It's still tough out...
The market for U.S. Treasurys is changing. Constrained balance sheets are pushing banks to hold fewer bonds and instead act as facilitators of big trades, according to Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology at Greenwich Associates...
“Inclusion of a well-capitalized, well-rated firm onto the primary dealer list can only be a positive for the Treasury market,” Kevin McPartland, head of research for market structure and technology at financial-services consulting firm Greenwich...
Constrained balance sheets are pushing banks to hold less bonds and instead act as facilitators of big trades, according to Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology at Greenwich Associates. In that environment, making money in rates...
If investors are right that it’s getting harder to trade bonds, it’s not for lack of places for buyers and sellers to meet. The bond market now has 99 electronic platforms to facilitate fixed-income trading from London to New York and Singapore...
While global banks retained their top positions as Greenwich Leaders in Asian Large Corporate Banking, the stability of this list masks a structural shift taking place across the industry. The large global banks that have long dominated Asian...
Despite former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler’s efforts to change how fixed income is traded, five years after the implementation of Dodd-Frank, little has changed. Data from Greenwich Associates Quantifying Interest-Rate Swap Order Book...
