Traders have slowly adopted execution management systems (EMS) in their workflow to enhance their execution capabilities as the market evolves, wrote Audrey Blater, senior analyst at Greenwich, in a report released on Tuesday. The fixed-income market adoption of EMS is at "a tipping point" where some traders, while reluctant to use technology, "acknowledged a change of habit is imminently necessary," said Blater. The tech makeover of a market that sees billions of dollars of trades in a year though is still gradual. The study found that only 39% of some 41 senior fixed-income traders in US asset management firms, hedge funds and insurance companies, identified using an EMS. Some 34% of the 41 traders in the study looked to chat to execute trades, versus 27% that turned to technology as their top choice.

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Persons: Audrey Blater, Matt Tracy, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Conor Humphries Organizations: Coalition, Traders, Thomson Locations: Coalition Greenwich, Greenwich