Origination: How data centres issue securitised products for funding
Bank of America, using data from JLL has analysed the funding of data centres using asset backed securities (ABS) and commercial mortgage backed securities...
Investor Demand: Geopolitical risk an evolving threat, but not discouraging risk taking
Geopolitical risk is top of mind for institutional investors, with close to 50% saying that there are too many in play for them to...
PLSA: Absorbed research costs must not impede transparency for investors
By Flora McFarlane.
The majority of large asset managers are opting to absorb research costs rather than pass them onto clients, but investors must investigate...
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Fitch Group to acquire CreditSights
Rating and data provider Fitch Group is acquiring CreditSights, the provider of credit research to the global financial community.
The company is being acquired from...
The cost of transparency and the value of information
Transparency can smell like information leakage by any other name, to butcher a Shakespeare quotation. Giving up information needs to happen at the latest...
LMA calls for simplified template for securitisations
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has outlined its position on securitisation disclosure templates, calling for a simplified template for private securitisations in the short-term,...
FILS USA 2022: Finding trader 2.0
Getting the next generation of traders to have the right skills and capabilities, without losing the existing market knowledge, requires traders to be multi-faceted,...
Emerging market bonds issuance and returns grow
This week we examine the very directional movements of emerging markets (EM) assets under management (AUM), due to investment flows and growing issuance. With...
Credit Index Futures: Increasing price transparency, liquidity and capital efficiency to credit markets
Davide Masi, fixed income and currencies product manager, and Vassily Pascalis, senior vice president, fixed income sales at Eurex, discuss developing the asset class...
Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
Are interdealer markets dead?
So-called ‘interdealer’ markets have long been used by large buy-side firms. This well-known secret creates inequality for those investment firms barred from participating, and...
September ADV: E-trading platforms see volumes soar
Fixed income platforms saw their average daily volume (ADV) in September reach record highs with MarketAxess witnessing a 52% increase compared to September last...
