Overbond first to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive into real-time bond trading automation

TORONTO, ON and NEW YORK, NY — JANUARY 21, 2021 — Overbond continues to lead the way in the automation of global fixed income trading. The provider of AI quantitative analytics for institutional fixed income capital markets is now the first to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive settlement-layer data for fixed income trade automation purposes. “The lack…

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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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Smart Order Routing (SOR): The Next Frontier in Fixed Income Trading Automation

SOR has been enabling automation in equities asset class for two decades. It’s now poised to enhance the bond market Increases in fixed income electronic trading volumes have driven enhancements in trading desk operations over the previous five years, making the lives of traders easier in today’s natively digital world. Trading workflow enhancements, however, that…

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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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Can AI solve for bond market illiquidity?

Historically a fractured market for data dissemination, OTC bond market participants have been yearning for a consolidation, similar to that of the public equities markets. With the emergence of machine-learning technology, the hopes of a fully transparent market are now on the horizon. Overbond can solve this problem for clients through its unique data aggregation…

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COBI and Predictive Analytics in the Fixed Income Market

The Overbond platform’s COBI (Corporate Bond Intelligence) tool uses big data technology and machine learning to study data and construct algorithms that enable it to predict indicative debt capital market pricing levels, propensity to issue and match making for investors and issuers. COBI’s coverage includes 90% of active issuers in the Canadian fixed income marketplace (approximately…

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Brave New World of Price Discovery – Adopters Win, Adaptors Will Need to Catch Up

One of the most exciting and dynamic shifts in the financial world is the way that new financial technologies — ‘fintech’ — have penetrated various sectors within the market. The finance world is undergoing a dramatic shift experienced in other established industries (like publishing) that are built on information as opposed to concrete goods. Over…

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2017 Trends in the Bond Market

With a year of widespread volatility behind us, uncertainty will likely remain a key theme for 2017 Instability in the financial markets was a major theme for 2016. The second quarter saw record lows in bond yields after the shock of June’s referendum vote in the UK, however, markets have made a recovery in the…

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Learning in Finance

The world of finance is getting more complicated. More specifically, the fixed income market as the largest capital market in the world is expanding in its complexity and importance. There are over 40 different professional designations available to capital market professionals, from chartered financial analyst (CFA), certified public accountant (CPA) to certified fraud examiner (CFE)…

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