A new Greenwich Associates report looks at the potential impact of MiFID II regulation cash equity trading.
“Many people believe [last look] gives a false sense of security as to what the market price actually is,” says Kevin McPartland at Greenwich Associates.
“In a more unbundled world, it will become difficult for one to subsidise the other,” says John Colon, Greenwich Associates. “Conceivably, the cost of execution may go up to the extent the real cost of liquidity has been hidden in the bundled model...
Standard Chartered ranked second after HSBC Holdings Plc in terms of its market share in arranging trade finance for large Asian companies, according to a survey by the Stamford, Connecticut-based research firm Greenwich Associates published on Sept...
HSBC continues to lead the way in the Asian fixed income trading by holding an 11.8% market share according to a report by Greenwich Associates.
The share of investment-grade notes that trade electronically has doubled in two years and now makes up 20 percent of total market volume, according to Greenwich Associates. About 75 percent of U.S. bond investors have traded some company bonds...
“While trading large blocks of corporate bonds is still no walk in the park, any easing of this burden should be seen as a step in the right direction,” said Kevin McPartland, head of market structure and technology research at Greenwich Associates...
"The rest of the world is starting to see a decline in their fixed-income staff numbers -- layoffs, layoffs, layoffs," said Peter Kane, Greenwich Associates consultant in Toronto, who works with Canada’s bank-owned bond dealers. "Canada’s one of the...
“This shows ICBC’s ambitions to grow their franchise as a global player," said Singapore-based Gaurav Arora, head of corporate and institutional banking for India at Greenwich Associates. "This also suggests a fundamental shift in strategy to serve...
Managers confront effects of regulations and evolving prime broker relationships.
