Corporate bonds
Generali pivots from corporate bonds
Company debt makes up 31.6% of life insurance investment portfolio; 28.1% of property and casualty portfolio
Ties between EU insurers and banks vary by country
Estonian, Cypriot and Swedish insurers most exposed to banking sector
DTCC in talks to clear MarketAxess bond trades
Market-first move could cut platform’s costs and counterparty risks
Ice creates daily credit risk monitoring tool
Company muscles into Bloomberg’s fixed income data territory with bond analytics service
Credit data: UK banks hold firm as Brexit looms
The credit status of UK banks remains unchanged, but other industries have seen significant deterioration
Debt-issuance spree helps Lloyds hurdle MREL target
Total funds and eligible liabilities rose to £66.8 billion at the end of last year, up 23% from 2017
China warning spurs banks over bail-in debt plans
Competing for attention in global TLAC markets could drive up costs for Chinese lenders
US G-Sibs cut $36bn of HQLA
Wells Fargo clears out $27 billion of HQLA in first nine months of 2017 alone
Bank bail-in rules put European insurers at risk
The major buyers of bank debt could suffer a domino effect if the bonds are bailed in
Goldman, BAML back Trace reporting changes
Banks are pushing for 48-hour delay in reporting large corporate bond trades
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