Tag: equities

Talking Equity Market Structure with Benzinga

Every month or so I have the pleasure of talking with the folks at the Benzinga #Premarket morning show.  The listener base is predominantly retail which isn’t really my focus, however I love that they give air-time to market structure issues as they are as important to retail/professional traders as they are to the big institutions. […]

15 for 15: Top Market Structure Trends to Watch in 2015

Market structure happenings have been fast and furious since 2009, and 2014 did not disappoint.  Mandatory SEF trading finally began, fixed income electronic trading continued its steady incline, the current shape of the US equity market was once again brought to the forefront and the cost of capital continued its assault on the banking industry. […]

Stock Market Keeps Its Faith in Humanity (WSJ)

The Wall Street Journal has a great featured piece today on the importance of the sales trader, which is something we at Greenwich have been out talking about quite a bit over the last few months.  The WSJ story features our latest equity research (although the direct quote was unfortunately cut by the editors – sorry […]

US equity brokers made more money than last year – finally

We’ve just released the results of our benchmark US equities study, based on almost 600 interviews with US equity investors.  While Greenwich has been conducting this study for literally decades, this is my first market structure analysis of the data since joining the firm last summer.  The report includes the expected critical data points – total […]

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 […]

Making Proprietary Trading Public: My Interview with Bloomberg TV

First KCG and now Virtu.  In 2008 no one would have guessed that in 2014 automated trading firms would be publicly traded companies – but here we are.  Investors have a new way of getting in on the profits behind liquidity provision, and the market as a whole has new insight into how these firms […]

Visualizing the Stock Market with StockTouch

As a research analyst I don’t do much in the way of product reviews. Sure we compare and contrast business models, but in most cases we stop short of saying which product is better. This is because we’re not actually users of those institutionally focused products. Well in this case it’s different. I recently began […]

Flash Crash spotlights financial IT risks (Institution of Engineering and Technology)

The Flash Crash may very well be talked about more these days than the credit crisis.  Not only is it an area of interest for regulators and traders but technologists as well.  IET takes a look at the issue from a technology perspective in this article. ‘It seems to be more of a market structure […]

Buy Side OMS and EMS: Integration, Expansion and Consolidation (TABB Group)

This is my latest research report looking at the buy side’s usage of trading technology.  See the press release below, the executive summary at tabbgroup.com and coverage of the study from Securities Industry News and Advanced Trading. NEW YORK & LONDON – (Business Wire) According to new research from TABB Group, the integration of order […]