Source: MarketsMedia MarketsMedia recently highlighted Overbond’s Corporate Bond Intelligence (COBI) showing drastically widening spreads in multiple sectors. The widening indicates declining liquidity, creating challenges for traders and companies to raise capital through debt issuance. “Conditions in European corporate bonds paint a grim picture. Market conditions have declined noticeably, even in sectors such as utilities that…
Source: Reuters Recent Reuters article highlights Canadian corporate bond issuance perking up again, rebounding after a lull 10 months. Brian D’Costa, President of Algonquin Capital said “After more than a decade of return-free risk in fixed income, current yield levels are very attractive. We haven’t seen such yield levels in the last 15 years, and…
Source: TheTrade TheTrade explores insights from the Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit APAC in Singapore provided insights on how trading desks are evolving with automation. Martin Viseux, Head of Fixed Income Trading Asia, HSBC Global Asset Management said: “We’ve seen a big change in market structure with high volatility where the traditional banks have…
As uncertainty stalks markets and remote work proliferates, the ability to find liquidity and measuring trade performance is critical. Fixed income desks around the world, who apply the analytics of ‘Best Ex’ and Transaction Cost Analysis can refine their trade process to gain insight on costs, asset allocation, and assess counterparty execution performance. It’s a…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
