With $90 billion of green bond issuance last year, it is expected that other sovereign countries, after France, will follow suit Source: Bloomberg After Paris hosted the 2015 Climate Change Accord, it’s fitting that France is pioneering one way in which it might be paid for: green bonds. The country is making its debut appearance in…
“All to all” information flows underpin newly launched Overbond deal execution capability; OverbondX enables corporate and government bond issuers, dealers, and investors to now facilitate all aspects of deal execution from within the Overbond platform TORONTO and NEW YORK — January 25, 2017 — Overbond Ltd., the company behind the first end-to-end platform for bond…
Source: The Financial Revolutionist When the big data boom grabbed headlines in the early 2000’s, it was because the high-tech industry allocated R&D efforts to develop new data-driven applications for their businesses. Out of these developments came the rise of predictive analytics. It should be noted that predictive analytics represents a different methodology from the more…
Although bond bears believe that the future holds lower bond prices, experts believe they are bound to be disappointed once again. Source: Bloomberg The New Yorker magazine once ran a cartoon depicting two politicians sitting in an office in the shadow of the Capitol, with a man behind the desk saying, “Those who ignore history are…
Trump’s “big border tax,” if adopted, could hurt trade and millions of workers within Canada Source: Ted Carmichael Global Macro With this tweet on January 5, President-elect Donald Trump got the attention of not only of Toyota and Mexico, but also a few astute Canadians. The realization began to dawn on them that Trump’s promise to…
Along with a decline in liquidity, issuers of securities also noted the greater degree of difficulty they had in gauging the market and pricing new issues of benchmark bonds. They also noted the trend of investors demanding larger, more liquid benchmark bonds. Source: Wizard-At-Odds The BIS released their quarterly review at the beginning of December. In…
The Green bond market – a market used to raise funds for environmental projects – is on track to achieve growth in 2017, as volumes doubled this past year. The green bond market seems to be unphased by the scrutiny of climate change by US Present-elect, Donald Trump, over the past months. Source: The Globe and…
The future of banking might move towards third-party technologies that would leverage a bank’s large client base, capital position, trust and brand name. This may be the basis for developing new third-party business models or allowing for clients to easily conduct business with one another. Source: The Banker Regulatory pressure Regulatory pressures following the global financial…