Leveraged loans
Rival platforms battle to control electronic trading of CLOs
Octaura has the backing of dealers, while Kopentech is leaning into its buy-side roots
This Week: LSEG/Quantile, Ice, Morningstar/Sentifi, SimCorp/FundApps, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
MarketAxess builds out flagship e-trading platform for loans functionality
The platform operator plans to extend its all-to-all corporate bond trading expertise to the loan market, which lags other fixed-income instruments in both tech adoption and the level of transparency.
Pragmatic Steps Highlight Syndicated Loans' Latest Tech Push, Part II
Learning from previous efforts, incremental steps are now realizing significant benefits for the space — which, sources on both the buy and sell side say, is just what the doctor ordered as new, less experienced investors ponder entry. Tim Bourgaize Murray continues with the second half of the story.
'Scratching and Clawing,' Syndicated Loans Tack Toward Progress: Part I
Learning from previous efforts, incremental steps are now realizing significant benefits for the space — which, sources on both the buy and sell side say, is just what the doctor ordered as new, less experienced investors ponder entry.
Off the Chain: The Blockchain Battle
Tim Bourgaize Murray surveys industry perspectives on Blockchain's potential, and finds a battle brewing.
Players on Loan: Data Governance, Settlement Automation Nearer as CLOs Reemerge
Leveraged loans are touted as an alternative to uneven bond yields, while collateralized loan obligations are scratching at pre-crisis levels. Yet despite years of collective pushes toward straight-through processing, loan products remain the “last…