Overbond Featured in IOSCO Global Report on Fintech

IOSCO featured Overbond in the Global Report on Fintech as an emerging innovator in bond issuance   About this Report The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) tasked the Committee on Emerging Risks (CER) to collaborate with other IOSCO Committees and lead a study on the evolution of Financial Technologies, including its…

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Citigroup Taps Facebook, IBM And FinTech’s Top Talent To Build Better Government Services

The Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) has a single goal: to encourage technology innovators from around the world to create cutting-edge solutions to promote integrity, accountability and transparency in the public sector and beyond Source: PYMNTS.com While much has been said and written about the power of technology and its power to build a better…

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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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