The fixed-income market is all about borrowing money to finance capital investments, allowing those that need it to borrow it from those that have it. From their early beginnings over 400 years ago,...
The difficult trading environment in bond markets is fueling the use of bond ETFs in institutional portfolios.
The institutional investors participating in the Greenwich Associates 2016 U.S. Bond...
By 2020, Millennials and Generation X will control $30 trillion of investable assets. Millennials’ different attitudes to wealth and expectations of customer experience are commanding major changes...
While Europe’s political class is still debating what actually occurred in the U.K.’s June referendum on exiting the European Union and what this result will mean for the future of Europe, business...
Blockchain, also referred to as distributed ledger technology (DLT), has captured the attention of financial services.
In the most comprehensive study to date, Greenwich Associates assesses the...
From the outside, degree of change can be hard to gauge: Do a few trucks in the neighbor’s driveway indicate that a modest renovation or a complete gut job is underway? Similarly, while on the...
The story of electronic trading growth in the corporate bond market continues. Over 80% of U.S.-based credit investors now transact investment-grade corporate bond trades electronically, a...
New regulatory schemes such as MiFID II, combined with what may be a secular shift to an environment where institutional equity trading volumes may not recover to levels seen even a few years ago,...
Agile approaches to project and process management are being adopted across an increasingly broad array of industries. In banking, the iterative approach that is the hallmark of agile enables faster...
After a lengthy and contentious process, the SEC recently approved IEX as a National Securities Exchange. Now they will seek to grow market share by leveraging the order book’s trade through...