Corporate bonds
Own goal: Mifid II reduces transparency in some EU markets
New rules replace voluntary arrangements in ETFs and Nordic bonds, fragmenting post-trade data
EU trading venues warn over looming end of LEI relief
Expelling issuers with no legal entity identifiers could hurt liquidity and investor strategies
UK bank funding costs spike in Q1 – BoE
Total term debt issuance is around 60% higher this year to date than at the same points in 2016 and 2017
Podcast: Richard Martin on EM debt, copulas, machine learning
Quant sceptical of machine learning algos and black boxes
Emerging market corporate bonds as first-to-default baskets
Modified Merton model offers insights on EM corporate debt
CCP stress tests need improvement, argues new research
Existing data could inform greater number of stress scenarios and create system-wide test
Rising rates hit Chubb's portfolio
US insurer posts $1 billion in realised and unrealised losses
US dealers agree to disclose corporate bond quotes
Market to get pre-trade transparency but big dealers remain on the sidelines
Debt, information asymmetry and bankers on board
This paper contributes to the financial networks literature by providing evidence that well-connected bankers on the boards of directors of nonfinancial firms reduce information asymmetry between credit markets and firms.
Rising yields prompt China banks to up loan-loss coverage
Domestic and foreign lenders reassessing loan books and tweaking hedging strategies
Only 1% of bonds caught in first wave of Mifid transparency
Trax estimates 5% of corporate bonds will be subject to full transparency after four-year phase-in
Buy-side firms doubt SEC initiative will fix bond markets
Despite increased electronic trading, liquidity worsening in some corporate bonds
Liquidity snarls progress on factor investing in credit
Asset managers are re-engineering strategies borrowed from equity to fit practicalities of trading bonds
E-trading boosts mid-tier banks in rates and credit
New technology helps Natixis and Mizuho compete with major dealers in swaps and bonds
FRTB threatens Canadian bond market, dealers say
Modelling the risk factors of Canadian corporate debt is “almost impossible”
New data and AI tipped to transform trading businesses
Isda AGM: New BNP Paribas system already creating counterparty trading probabilities for bonds
US lawmakers divided over Volcker rule’s impact on bond liquidity
Both sides cite Fed data to support their interpretations of prop trading ban
EC: regulators could adapt rules to protect bond liquidity
Official recognises regulatory hit to corporate bond and repo markets, but rejects Mifid delay
Don’t keep up with the Kardashians
Dealers may have gifted the buy side an information edge
Pricing in the dark: how dealers lost their information edge
Asset managers may have an information advantage over dealers in bond pricing
SEC’s White ‘deeply concerned’ about bond market illiquidity
Agency to publish report on regulation and market liquidity in May 2017
Brokers woo new clients, try not to upset old ones
Broker rankings 2016: Swaps market still bifurcated, but boundaries are blurring