Demand For Green Bonds Exceeds Vanilla Equivalents

Demand for many issuer’s green bonds is higher than for its vanilla equivalents while the cost of funding is the same or lower according to a survey from the Climate Bonds Initiative. Nearly all respondents said their green bond attracted new investors. Source: MarketsMedia Demand for green bonds is higher than for their vanilla equivalents…

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How Augmented Analytics and AI Is Reshaping The Finance Industry

Investment in AI is rapidly growing as financial services organizations continue to see the value it offers. See how Overbond’s COBI analytics contributes in two areas that are seeing transformations: Investment analysis and algorithmic trading. Source: TechNative Artificial Intelligence and augmented analytics may, for some, be the driving force behind our current technological revolutions. Perhaps…

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Future of Trading: The best of people and machines

The future of trading and financial services will be a true merger of the best of both humans and machines, where investing and trading decisions leverage human intuition while data analysis and trade execution are automated and increasingly efficient. Source: Refinitiv The future of trading will be created by people and machines working together, not…

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Canada is at a critical juncture

Banking, online shopping and social media are the future, but how many of the companies dominating these fields are Canadian? Source: Financial Post In the midst of any crisis, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that one always has a choice — you can either move forward in a new direction or…

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The Fed Loves Main Street as Much as Wall Street This Time

The Fed has been lauded for doing more for the broader Main Street economy during this pandemic-induced crisis than back in ’08-’09 when seen as mostly as Wall Street’s savior. Source: Bloomberg Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues had a hard decision to make as the coronavirus epidemic worsened in February and March….

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AI in the financial services sector: grand opportunities and great challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been finding its way into the financial services industry offering immeasurable benefits. Source: The Fintech Times Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been finding its way into the financial services industry for some time, and there’s no denying that the technology offers immeasurable benefits. AI can increase the efficiency, optimize processes, reduce costs…

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Four ways that coronavirus has changed capital markets

COVID-19 crisis has taken a big step toward policy co-ordination along the lines of modern monetary theory. Source: Financial Times Some day this crisis will end. When, and at what human and economic costs, remain big unknowns. But when markets return to something like normality, investors are likely to find a fundamentally altered political and…

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Coronavirus Is The ‘Largest Insolvency Event’ In History

Former Wall Street money manager warns of the COVID-19 crisis as one of the biggest insolvency risks in history. Source: Forbes Bitcoin has largely failed to perform as a so-called safe-haven asset during the coronavirus crisis so far—though that could have begun to change. The bitcoin price fell sharply last month amid a broader market…

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When It Comes To Fixed Income, Time Is On Your Side.

With a higher-running yield, spreads now have to widen more and faster for price losses to overcome the large yield advantage that comes from holding credit. Source: Seeking Alpha As a professional bond manager glued to a screen watching prices every day, it’s hard to fathom that just a few weeks ago when March began…

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