Category: Greenwich Associates Research

US Treasury Market Structure Is Definitely Changing

Greenwich Associates just published my recent work examining changes to how US Treasurys are traded.  After years of little change, some real disruption now seems in the cards; direct streams are growing as a method for trading while the dealer-to-dealer and dealer-to-client markets overlap now more than ever.  Bloomberg News did a great job covering the […]

A good user experience still matters to bond investors

Below is the press release from my most recent Greenwich Report on the corporate bond market.  As the title implies, the buy side is starting to get used to the way things are – they like all-to-all, but they also want a good user experience from the platform providers. Liquidity isn’t Improving but Credit Investors […]

High Frequency Needs High Touch

Originally posted on the Greenwich Blog There is a tremendous amount of irony in the path high-frequency trading – excuse me, principal trading firms have taken from their heyday in the late 2000’s.  We alluded to this a few months ago in our Top Market Structure Trends to Watch in 2017: When I first started meeting […]

Bonds, AI, alternative data and the radio

The more things are changing, the more interesting it is to do research.  And thankfully change doesn’t seem to stop coming.  The last decade has seen the market structure geeks move their focus from swaps, to high frequency trading, to corporate bonds, to US Treasury bonds, to blockchain, to machine learning and, most recently, back […]

Global FX Investors Increasingly Seek Non-bank Liquidity

Below is the press release for my most recent paper examining changes in the global FX market.  The bottom line: big banks will continue to play a huge role, but non-bank liquidity providers will up there game increasingly interacting directly with institutional investors.  Bloomberg News also highlighted our finding that hedge fund use of execution […]