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ORIGINATION
Origination: SocGen issues digital US bond
Societe Generale has issued its first digital bond in the US, using Broadridge’s issuance, trading and management tokenisation services.
The bonds were registered by SocGen’s digital asset subsidiary, Societe Generale-FORGE, and purchased by DRW. IntellectEU’s...
RATINGS & ANALYSIS
Ratings & Analysis: S&P Global taps Snowflake connectivity for private markets investors
Private markets investors are now able to input data from S&P Global’s iLEVEL portfolio monitoring platform directly into their Snowflake environments.
Investors will be able to analyse iLEVEL data alongside other datasets, including company financials,...
INVESTOR DEMAND
Investor Appetite: Credit buyers show stiff upper lip
Credit investors have proven resilient to political uncertainty while happy to take up the promised future view of AI application. As a result corporate issuers were able to access capital continuously via the public...
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