Can the Bond Market Save the Planet?

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…

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Overbond Digitizes Deal Execution for the World’s Primary Bond Issuance Market with the Launch of OverbondX

“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…

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Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

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…

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The Bear Market in Bonds Already Looks Shaky

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…

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Changing Corporate Market Liquidity in Canada

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…

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Banks prepare for radical transformation of the regulatory landscape

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…

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