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Disruption Drives the Convergence of Emerging Technologies and Innovation

May 20, 2020
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Today’s business leaders are dealing with unprecedented levels of disruption and uncertainty. The increased reliance on mission-critical technology tools and infrastructure focused on keeping businesses running has perhaps given executives a newfound appreciation for information technology (IT) and the people at the forefront of digital-driven change. Source: GARP Today’s business leaders are dealing with unprecedented…

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Fixed income data: How can technology help?

May 19, 2020
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The electronification of the fixed income market has brought along a host of significant data challenges. The necessary data must be acquired from myriad sources, including trading platforms, exchanges, market data aggregators, reference data providers, dealers and alternative data providers. Learn more Overbond’s enhanced data aggregation services for a strong multi-datasource solution. Source: Refinitiv |…

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The Federal Reserve Moves to Buy Corporate Debt

May 15, 2020
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The recent announcement by the Federal Reserve to purchase debt issued by investment grade U.S. companies will also include U.S.-listed ETFs. Explore Overbond’s indexing capabilities, which offers NAV on EOD and intraday basis and screens for most attractive ETFs in this environment.  Source: Forbes There is a total of $10 trillion of corporate debt in America from…

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Investors are buying credit ETFs faster than the bonds can rally

May 14, 2020
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The rapid swing of LQD, one of many credit ETFs, from discount to premium highlights the differences in liquidity between these ETFs and the bonds themselves. Maintain a firm grasp of this ETF liquidity mismatch with Overbond’s indexing capabilities, which offers NAV on EOD and intraday basis.  Source: BNN Bloomberg Some of the biggest credit ETFs…

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Investing in 2020: Exploring AI, Machine Learning, & Alt Data

May 13, 2020
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An overload of information and technology can be just as detrimental as having access to too little information and technology; therefore, less is more: the key to greater success is to act with precision. Explore Overbond’s rigorous data aggregation protocol to pull data from numerous sources and extract clean ML-driven insights.  Source: FINANCE MAGNATES Recent developments…

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Credit-rating agencies are back under the spotlight

May 12, 2020
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As of May 5th, S&P had downgraded or put on negative watch one-fifth of the corporate and sovereign issuers that it rates in response to the virus and a tumbling oil price. Overbond’s COBI models recalibrate with these changing fundamentals, along with a deep history of buyer sentiment and peer benchmarking to predict deteriorating financial…

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How fintech can save us from Covid-19

May 11, 2020
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Financial technology is not being employed to its best effect, while the coronavirus financial relief effort is struggling. Banks need to innovate and work with fintechs if they are to ensure that the most vulnerable do not get left behind. Source: EUROMONEY At the start of the pandemic, banks scrambled to increase remote capacity to…

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EU bond market a step closer to TRACE-like platform

May 8, 2020
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The EU bond market is moving closer to the establishment of a central database for the publishing of post-trade data, similar to that of the Trace platform in place for many years. Source: IFR News ICMA published a report recently on the establishment of an EU consolidated tape for bond markets, assessing the feasibility of…

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Post-Pandemic, Governments May Rethink Everything

May 7, 2020
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One expected consequence of the Covid-19 crisis from a human and economic cost perspective, is that people will almost certainly expect and insist on greater resilience in the event of another crisis Source: GARP | Global Association of Risk Professionals The human and economic costs of the Covid-19 crisis are already enormous, and the final…

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AI and ML move into financial services

May 6, 2020
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The global debt markets are complex, not least because of the multifaceted nature of securities: every product has its own maturity, redeemability and convertibility. This scale and level of complexity enables AI to unlock unique insights that can solve problems that were historically intractable. Source: ZD Net On a global scale, AI is expected to…

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