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ETFs can also provide a tool to sidestep liquidity disruptions for individual debt securities. Brokers have purportedly used them to stockpile riskier bonds, and about 70 percent of investors in bond ETFs value them for their liquidity and ease of...

Many companies across the capital markets are actively building teams, assigning budgets, and working on proofs of concept, according to a report published Thursday by Greenwich Associates.

In Asia, banks that had targeted 300 to 400 clients have now cut down to below 100, hurting smaller investors, said Greenwich Associates.

In Europe, sales-trader execution of single stocks rose to about 51 percent -- the first increase this decade, according to Greenwich Associates.

Banks’ plans illustrate their concern that the electronic platforms and algorithms that dominate foreign-exchange trading may have serious limitations during high-volume periods.

Greenwich Associates did evidently help to popularize the term among those on Wall Street concerned about the effects of cost-cutting.

Product development is a strong theme at the large private equity firms today, in part because they are all striving to make their revenue flows more “regular and repetitive,” says Rodger Smith, at Greenwich Associates. Most of the efforts are...

While electronic trading has been used in other asset classes - it made up about 20% of trades in the of the US investment-grade bond market in 2015, according to a Greenwich Associates report cited by a SIFMA presentation - leveraged loan trades...

Algorithmic trading is taking hold in foreign exchange – in part due to fallout from the 2013 FX “fixing scandal.” Foreign exchange represents one of the world’s biggest, most liquid and most electronic marketplaces. But while algorithmic trading...

Some digital transformation proponents have long recognized that digital transformation is more than digitization. They start with that definition I quoted, but continue along these lines, which comes from Isaac Sacolick, global CIO and a...