The financial services industry is spending about $1.7 billion per year on blockchain, as banks and other firms move beyond the proof-of-concept stage and start rolling out commercial distributed ledger technology products.
Proposed changes to swaps regulations could fuel a boom in innovation and electronic trading, and increase the average daily notional volume traded on swap-execution facilities (SEFs) by as much as 20%, according to a new report from Greenwich Associates.
Greenwich Associates today announces the hiring of Ken Monahan as Senior Analyst in the Firm’s Market Structure and Technology group, where will he cover FX, listed derivatives, fixed income, and a variety of additional research topics.
ETFs are playing an expanding role in Latin American institutions portfolios, as investors boost allocations and apply ETFs to new asset classes and functions.
Total U.S. equity commission payments from institutional investors to brokers have fallen for eight consecutive years and are now down 45% from their peak.
Commercial banks’ inability to keep pace with the digital capabilities of consumer platforms like Amazon, Uber and other slick retail banking websites is frustrating U.S. executives, who continue to struggle with cumbersome and often manual documentation and compliance requirements.
Facing a set of fast-changing global market conditions, European institutional investors are utilizing the versatility of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to adjust their portfolios, and integrating ETFs more deeply into both tactical and strategic investment processes and strategies.
Canadian institutions that use ETFs allocate an average 18.8% of total assets to exchange-traded funds (ETFs)— the highest average allocation found in any institutional market in the world.