Greenwich Associates: 54% expect increased spend on consolidated data feeds
The onset of the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting the importance of market data infrastructure for both buy-side and sell-side firms, with pricing data feeds in many ...
Greenwich: RFQ cuts convertible bond spreads in half
New research by analyst firm Greenwich Associates has found that the request for quote (RFQ) protocol is cutting the spreads made by the most aggressive convertible bond ...
Pre-trade data: The next generation
The first generation of pre-trade analytics are consolidating; the second generation of price and liquidity providers such as Bondcliq and Katana will need to learn from ...
Power to the people
New trading protocols can create paths to best execution or confound it through complexity. Chris Hall reports. “Every nation gets the government it deserves” was ...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed income desks see highest buy-side tech spend
Technology spend on buy-side trading desks rose 4% in 2019 from the previous year, to reach US$2.2 million on average, with fixed-income trading desks leading spend with ...
State of the market: Analysis of the platform landscape
Consolidation of the market continues, yet there are clear areas of growth in 2020. In the corporate and government bond trading space for dealer-to-client trading, the ...
Greenwich: Data analytics now more valued than market structure knowledge
Three out of four capital markets professionals say data analysis will be the most valued skill on trading desks over the next five years, and 85% plan to increase their ...
The burgeoning portfolio trading business
Electronic portfolio trading offers an efficient execution channel for baskets of bonds, but Lynn Strongin Dodds finds there are several barriers to growth. Portfolio ...
Traders respond positively to MarketAxess/LiquidityEdge deal
Buy-side traders have responded positively to the announcement that electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has agreed to buy LiquidityEdge, the US Treasuries ...
FINRA reporting change could support low-touch trading at size
A proposed pilot project for raising the size at which US bond trades must be reported, and delaying reporting for even larger trades, could lead to greater automation ...
Greenwich Associates: Growing dealer-client instability
By Pia Hecher.
US Treasury market change catalysed by proprietary trading firms
Proprietary trading firms are driving change faster than the interdealer brokers, writes David Wigan. Direct streaming of pricing data is changing the historical ...
Build your own EMS
Frustration with commercial front office technology is leading major buy-side firms to build execution capabilities. Buy-side spend on order management and execution ...
Larger dealers to benefit from bond electronification
By Vineet Naik.
