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, […]
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 […]
Each year Greenwich conducts a North American Fixed Income study. This year we conducting 1027 interviews of buy side portfolio managers and traders about everything from corporate bonds to agency pass-throughs to interest rate swaps. As I’m new to Greenwich this is my first time really digging into the results, and (although I’m now a […]
A study was released today from two very smart guys at Harvard and MIT that shows prices improved and liquidity declined after TRACE was thrust upon the bond market about a decade ago. As you can see from my quote in the Bloomberg News story below, the results aren’t terribly shocking. The extra transparency brought […]
January was a good month for corporate bonds. Investors are desperate for yield and the issuers want to be sure to take advantage of historically low rates. Even though half the world is scared of banks, it seems even they can borrow money pretty cheaply these days. My favorite bond issue of January is SABMiller, […]
 Our 2012 Fixed Income Trading event is taking place on Tuesday January 24th. We have a great agenda for the afternoon that should shed some light on what the major players in the fixed income markets are thinking about liquidity, derivatives reform, the sovereign debt crisis and a whole host of other issues we’re […]
Jim Toffey, one of the co-founders of Tradeweb and general e-trading pioneer, is heading up a pretty fascinating new venture. Using ultra sophisticated analytics Benchmark has created a market data service that streams corporate bond and single name CDS prices every 10 seconds even when the instruments haven’t traded in hours (or days or weeks). […]
Trade directly with your broker or look to a system that consolidates multiple quotes? There are benefits to each approach, but as things get more electronic in the OTC markets (with or without new derivatives regulations) this question will be front and center for many. My comments: “It is important to have an individual brand and […]