Category: Market News

Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit 2021, Invesco’s head of fixed income for EMEA and Ninety One’s global head of trading suggested these actions could safeguard desks in a post-pandemic and post-Brexit landscape. Source: The Trade Data optimisation and the electronification of voice trading capabilities were the areas dubbed by leading fixed income trading…

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Trade analytics provider Overbond has released a margin optimisation tool that uses AI technology for sell-side fixed income desks to increase their amount of request for quotes (RFQ) responses.   It captures margin optimisation data and trains the model to the risk tolerance and execution style of the trading desks, categorising RFQs processed in terms…

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The source: Traders Magazine While some traditional financial services companies have more slowly transitioned to the cloud, capital markets firms have embraced cloud computing across their entire value chains — front-, middle-, and back-office. We wanted to understand the dynamics behind this rapid adoption, the most common use cases, and the types of technology most…

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Source: The Desk Overbond has added a ‘rich-cheap’ model to its suite of AI fixed income analytics, designed to help buy-side desks generate systematic returns. Combining both static and dynamic analysis of multiple factors with AI,the firm says its ‘rich-cheap’ model provides a quantitative method for screening for misprized fixed income securities. It is a…

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A new report from analyst firm Aite-Novartica has found nearly a third of bond market participants and traders believe it is hard to justify the cost of data, given the additional value it provides. Source: The Desk In many cases, the inability to create clean data was to blame – a phenomenon that lives on…

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It was a bloodbath in the major equity market indices on Monday, with the worst single day losses seen this year. A growing narrative that growth in the US and other major economies may have already peaked, reinforced by Covid variant resurgence fears has knocked off roughly half a percentage point in 10-year Treasury yields…

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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde gave investors the green light to load up on some of the highest-yielding government bonds in the region over the coming months. By signaling that there would be no let-up in the ECB’s pandemic debt-buying program on Thursday, she helped put aside fears that the central bank is preparing…

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