European insurance companies are adopting ETFs for a wide range of functions across their investment operations.
Approximately one-quarter of large, continental-European insurance companies now...
European pension funds are adopting ETFs into their investment portfolios for both strategic purposes, like obtaining core investment exposures, and tactical tasks.
Leading the move into ETF...
Looking forward from the start of 2015, Greenwich Associates expects the pace of market structure changes to accelerate. Not only will the regulatory train keep on rolling, but some glimmers of...
Despite a multi-year bull market in European equities, the associated commission pool has experienced a sustained decline after hitting its peak in 2008.
Sell-side brokers already struggling to...
Electronic trading of derivatives has grown considerably through the past decade, but investor interest has been lackluster at best.
Despite having the U.S. equity options market having 12 fully...
Trade finance activity is on the rise among companies around the world, driven by the expansion of European and U.S. firms into international markets and the continued surge in trading...
Institutional investors around the world report spending more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in...
Treasury departments at large U.S. companies rank IT security as their top priority for 2015 - ahead of such critical issues as cost management and regulatory/compliance challenges.
These...
Asia remains the hub of global trade, and as such, a key driver of trade finance activity.
Approximately two-thirds of large companies around the world use trade finance services related to...