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…
Source: Bloomberg Corporate bond market participants should provide more granular data when they report trades to give dealers additional insight into their clients and investors a better understanding of where liquidity is, according to a report from research firm Greenwich Associates. New standards are necessary as electronification intensifies the need for greater transparency, according to…
CreditSights analysts combed through the Fed’s latest portfolio data for trends and found the central bank’s daily purchases dwindled to about $21 million on average through July 30, down from about $180 million of daily buying when the program kicked off in May. The question is where do corporate bond spreads go once the market…
Congratulations to Joel Sebold and Refinitiv Labs for unlocking further potential from data science with their equity market liquidity discovery project. By combining the computer power of machine learning with creative visualizations, data science will take its rightful place in analytics space for capital markets. For fixed income market participants, explore Overbond’s suite of analytics…
Great paper put out by colleagues at UCLA, UIUC and Philly Fed on the topic of corporate bond liquidity during the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the more interesting findings was that not only did liquidity conditions improve for bonds that were eligible for the Fed’s lending/purchase programs, but also for bonds that were ineligible. Hence,…
The subject of bond market liquidity risk has been consistently gaining the attention of many financial institutions, regulators, and policy makers. Worries of liquidity risk continue to increase due to many factors (but not limited to): multi-year decline in dealer inventories and higher capital requirements, sharp increase in aggregate outstanding debt instruments, and proliferation of…
In light of the market volatility in fixed income that began in March, AI trades decreased materially as a percentage of total volume. “The programmatic trading that exists in credit is not equipped to handle volatility related to liquidity.” – Sonali Theisen. The market was stressed and needed human oversight. Liquidity Profiling using Overbond’s COBI pricing…
Demand for many issuer’s green bonds is higher than for its vanilla equivalents while the cost of funding is the same or lower according to a survey from the Climate Bonds Initiative. Nearly all respondents said their green bond attracted new investors. Source: MarketsMedia Demand for green bonds is higher than for their vanilla equivalents…
As foreign investors seek opportunities in fixed income, Canada is an attractive prospect. Source: Wealth Professional One man’s loss is another’s gain, as they say. And as the current situation in the bond market shows, the maxim applies equally to entire countries and markets. According to an economic analysis by Warren Lovely, managing director and head of…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
