As a part of Greenwich’s Behind the Market Structure webinar series I had the pleasure of speaking with MarketAxess CEO and Chairman Rick McVey. We talked about the evolution of electronic trading in fixed income, whether or not his colleagues thought he was crazy for starting MarketAxess back in the late 90’s, and some of the […]
Category: Public Speaking
A Conversation With Virtu’s CEO, Doug Cifu
On February 7th I spoke with Virtu Financial’s CEO Doug Cifu. The conversation touched on Virtu’s history, recent acquisitions, equity and fixed income market structure and the impact of high-speed trading on markets in general and market volatility more specifically. We recorded the session and loaded it as a podcast on SoundCloud. Perfect for your […]
What Is Market Structure, The Video Version
I was asked to present something interesting to a room full of interns and recent college grads. It was a fun format and I really enjoyed giving this presentation. My ultimately goal: convince them that market structure is in fact fascinating, and being an analyst is a great way to make a living.
Not quite a TED talk but…discussing how investors interact with the Street
On October 3, 2016 I presented at Symphony’s Innovate conference at the Dream Hotel in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. The bottom line, relationships are still as important as ever, but the tools used to communicate are changing.
Talking US Treasury Market Structure with FIA
Its been way too long since I’ve posted. Funny how writing for a living makes it hard to write your own blog. Something like “the cobbler’s kids have no shoes”. Anyway, we had a great trip to Chicago earlier this month for the annual FIA Expo. We were told that over 6000 people attended, which […]
North American Fixed Income Update: E-Trading and Too Big To Fail
This week we will begin to release the results of our annually North American Fixed Income study, based on just shy of 1100 investors trading fixed income products, looking across 18 different product types. I will be presenting an overview of our initial findings on August 7 (Thursday) at 11a ET, and discuss where we will be digging […]
U.S. Equities Market Structure Update
My first nine months at Greenwich have been focused on fixed income and FX markets. With the release of Greenwich’s annual North American equities study for which we spoke with nearly 550 portfolio managers and traders, the time has come to talk equities. To that end, on June 4 we’ll be hosting a webinar to discuss […]
The US Invasion of European Fixed Income
Capital is expensive and getting more expensive. But the problem is proving a much harder one to manage in Europe, with European banks continuing to deleverage and already complying with the principles of Basel III while US banks have their capital houses (relatively) in order. The impact of this dichotomy is broad, but one impact […]
Greenwich Fixed Income Market Structure Event: Liquidity, SEFs and Technology to Manage the Change
Given all of the research we have going on here at Greenwich and all of the regulatory mess going on in the world, we thought it a good time to set up a webinar to review both. I’ll go through some of my recent research here at Greenwich – credit liquidity alternatives, trading technology spend, […]
SEFs are official, now its time for a new trading system
Here at Greenwich we just wrapped up a study looking at how buy side trading desks are spending their technology dollars. On September 26 I presented the findings on a webinar (which I did from a conference room in a hotel in Boston just before moderating a panel on swap futures, in case you care), and […]