Banks Issuing Covered Bonds To Reduce Their Funding Costs In Volatile Markets. Source: Bloomberg Canadian banks are issuing record levels of covered bonds, mortgage-backed debt pioneered in Prussia, helping them to lower funding costs in volatile markets. The country’s lenders have sold 5.75 billion euros ($6.5 billion) of covered bonds this year, up about 50…
AI predictive analytics will be omnipresent in capital markets fixed income applications within a short span of time. Early adopters emerge as news leaders and value realization from AI models goes mainstream. Source: Forbes 2018 was a year of reckoning for artificial intelligence (AI), proving that it’s here to stay and will soon be all…
New regulatory requirements to price and monitor liquidity for all bond positions are forcing buy-side users to look for automation as manual reconciliation approach is not feasible. Source: Overbond TORONTO and NEW YORK – January 15, 2019 – Overbond Ltd., the first end-to-end fixed income markets fintech platform for AI predictive analytics, has launched COBI…
Bank of Canada held rates steady but said more increases would be necessary even though oil prices and a weak housing market will harm the economy in the short term. Source: Thomson Reuters Governor Stephen Poloz said the challenges were temporary and he still believed the economy would at some stage be “operating at full…
Slowing economic data may force central banks to rethink policy tightening in 2019. Source: Bloomberg Manufacturing gauges across the world’s largest economies stumbled at the end of last year, starting 2019 with fresh challenges for global growth and central banks. The global manufacturing index from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and IHS Markit fell in December…
Mifid II could encourage the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services, but regulators need to be wary that any rules need to be incentive-based to avoid deterring investment in innovation. Source: IFLR One specific segment of financial services which could benefit most from AI is the fixed income space, which has historically been…
Counterparties are increasingly adopting quantitative investing techniques such as systematic alpha and algorithmic trading, merging of fundamental discretionary and quantitative investment styles, consumption of increasing amounts of alternative data, and adoption of new methods of analysis such as AI analytics like Overbond COBI-Issuance algorithm described in this white paper. Source: Overbond Fixed Income Artificial Intelligence…
As the market could be riskier early next year with supply lining up, CLO managers are willing to take the plunge now rather than waiting for the new year’s issuance window. Source: Bloomberg It’s been an expensive month to price new collateralized loan obligations in Europe. But the fear of what lies ahead is spurring…
Canada’s cumulative 5-year budget deficit to rise to $83.5 billion as the Liberal Government unveiled corporate tax breaks to businesses worth $10.5 billion, allowing businesses to write-off capital investments more quickly. This decision is bound to increase government borrowings and debt issuances. Source: Bloomberg Justin Trudeau is offering tax breaks to business instead of cutting…
Capital markets are poised to be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI). Most firms have focused on using technologies to reduce costs, but AI has the potential to create value across organizations in new transformative ways. Source: Accenture Ours is an industry that has shown a willingness and ability to capitalize on emerging ideas, using them to differentiate…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
