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Handelshuizen snoepen al meer dan tien jaar marktaandeel af van banken, zegt Richard Johnson van het Amerikaanse adviesbureau Greenwich Associates.

Les caisses de pension vont-elles compenser le désengagement des banques dans le financement de matières premières? C’est ce qu’anticipe le livre blanc du cabinet d’études américain Greenwich Associates.

A recent report from consultancy Greenwich Associates, The Technology to Succeed in Fixed-Income Trading, said an increasingly large portion of requests for quotes received by a dealer desk can be handled by an autoquoting system.

“Ever since Washington went Republican, the urgency has come off and even if this will come, it’s going to take a lot longer,” says Kevin McPartland. “The message from the White House is for less regulation not more, so new rules are only going to...

Alternative data “spans all kinds of different things, but those different things can become mainstream, and then they’re not alternative anymore,” Dan Connell said. “The more people use something, the more traditional it becomes.”

A recent Greenwich Associates survey found 21% of institutional asset managers and 10% of corporates do so in foreign exchange markets.

Banks are spending more. Greenwich Associates’ reported on fixed income trading released yesterday revealed that the nation’s top six government bond dealers are spending nearly $25bn on technology this year.

In their new report, “The Technology to Succeed in Fixed-Income Trading,” they write that global and regional bond dealers that made the biggest IT investments over the past decade have also achieved the highest levels of market share growth.

Before stepping into an interview for a front office tech job, you might want to know exactly what the trading systems do. In this respect, a new report from Greenwich Associates is helpful. 

While technology has revolutionized government bond trading, McPartland notes that “it will not completely replace the human touch.”