Deutsche Bank Sees Wall Street Trading Surge After Pfizer News

Deutsche Bank AG has seen a surge in trading across Wall Street since the U.S. election and news of a possible coronavirus vaccine, sustaining a rally that boosted third-quarter revenue across top investment banks. “The past couple of days since Pfizer’s groundbreaking announcement and what we all hope will be an inflection point in this pandemic, the street has…

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Default odds for consumer industries ease but remain elevated

The risk-of-default ratios for consumer industries have decreased from higher peaks earlier this year, but they are still trending above the levels they enjoyed before the coronavirus pandemic. Source: S&P Global Drug retailers, department stores, and the travel and leisure industries — considered the most vulnerable sectors by S&P Global Market Intelligence’s median one-year market…

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Case Study: Buy-Side Algo Credit Trading

Credit and Rates Trading Workflow Automation Vest Execution Pricing and Liquidity Risk Analytics Overview and Current Process Buy-side asset managers are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence applications to price fixed income securities algorithmically in live trading execution environment or for purposes of end of day reconciliation and portfolio construction. The current fixed income capital market data…

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Buy-side lags behind sell-side in adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence

Buy-side firms are falling behind the sell-side in the bid to scale up adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, according to an in-depth report from Refinitiv. Source: The TRADE Refinitiv polled 120 asset managers and found 28% had deployed ML and AI in multiple areas, describing it as core to their…

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JPMorgan Asset Says to Pick Corporate Debt Over Stocks in Near Term

Investors should focus more on corporate bonds than stocks in the near-term given the recent resurgence in the pandemic and political uncertainty in the U.S., according to JPMorgan Asset Management. Source: Bloomberg There’s “room for more consolidation in global equities,” Tai Hui, the $2.3 trillion asset manager’s chief Asia market strategist wrote in a note….

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Trading automation is needed in fixed income, but where will the data come from?

Currently, the only solution in the marketplace that shows what bonds have traded and at what prices across various trading venues that also includes the Over-The-Counter (OTC) trading volumes, is “client side data aggregation”. This involves aggregating data feeds from various providers internally. Up until a few years ago, it wasn’t possible to process, map…

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