Kinyu Keizai Shimbun interviews Mr. Han Ryoo, Co-founder & Head of Product at Overbond Ltd. during FIT 2017 in Tokyo Source: Kinyu Keizai Shimbun Overbond, based in Toronto, Canada plans to begin operations in Japan in early next year. Han Ryoo, Co-founder and Head of Product, visited Japan in late October to build up its…
Injection of Capital Positions Overbond to Transform Investment Banking and Bond Issuance Market. TORONTO — June 16, 2016 — Overbond Ltd., the first fintech platform for digital bond issuance, has closed a $7.5-million seed financing round with Morrison Financial Services Limited. The deal marks a significant step forward for the company as the first fintech…
Overbond co-founders Han Ryoo and Vuk Magdelinic in Toronto Source: The Globe and Mail Financial technology is changing how people borrow, save and invest, and is now infiltrating one of the stodgiest areas of financial services: the fixed-income market. Overbond is a relatively new Toronto-based fintech with a cloud-based pricing communication platform that automates tasks for…
A powerful new fintech platform paves the way towards the future of digital bond origination. Toronto, Ont., Canada — April 25, 2016 — For the past fifty years, the process of corporations raising money in the bond market hasn’t changed much. Bankers and corporations call each other and send individual files, one at a time,…
Changing market structure resulting in historically low fixed income market liquidity presents challenges but also opportunities for fixed income investors Source: Bloomberg Michael Lillard, who oversees more than $600 billion as head of fixed income at Prudential Financial Inc.’s asset manager, said investors have to adjust to a market in which it’s become more difficult to…
Promising signs in the bond market, as yields are heading higher around the world, a move typically linked to rising expectations of economic growth and inflation. Source: The Wall Street Journal As the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting committee prepares to meet on Tuesday, one signal suggests that investors believe the economy, and financial markets, may be finding…
Riskiest corporate bonds in Canada may need better access to investors Source: Globe and Mail The Canadian market for the riskiest corporate bonds is disappearing. Sales of high-yield bonds issued in the Canadian currency have slowed to just one $250-million offering this year, compared with seven issues totaling $1.45-billion through the same period in 2014, according to…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
