Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Goldman and the Next New Thing on Wall Street




It's official. According to CNBC Goldman Sachs has inaugurated the second stage of Wall Street's development after Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule.  The first post-reform stage was the transformation of proprietary trading units into market-making trading units.

Before Volcker, Wall Street firms risked their own capital trading securities with counterparties. After Volcker, Wall Street firms risked their own capital trading securities in anticipation and reaction to customer order flow. The old way was to ask: "how can we make money by reacting to market events?" The new way is to ask: "how can we make money by reacting to customer reactions to market events?"

More?  Check out http://www.cnbc.com/id/100610882

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