10/31/2024 7:38:57 PM BondBloxx raises $27m in growth funding By Louden Richason California based bond ETF provider raised $27m in growth funding led by Macquarie Asset Management.
12/6/2023 3:27:18 PM Tokenization of RWAs gets push in Europe as AXA, Generali buys SocGen's green bonds on Ethereum By FinTech Collective SocGen said tokenized bonds provide greater transparency and traceability, as well as speedier transactions and settlements.
10/27/2023 1:47:45 PM US companies shy away from debt markets as Treasury rout drives up costs By Kate Wang Turmoil in government bond markets has forced US companies to delay borrowing plans, making this the slowest October for debt issuance in...
8/4/2023 3:59:00 PM How bonds ate the entire financial system By Louden Richason The bond market is now facing one of its biggest tests in generations. Even if the market adapts, as it has in the past, its ballooning...
6/23/2023 5:33:36 PM MakerDAO snaps up more US Treasury bonds By FinTech Collective MakerDAO, the DeFi protocol whose team is responsible for the creation of the DAI stablecoin, recently announced the completion of its...
12/4/2020 2:43:19 PM Boom in fintech bond sale platforms risks fragmenting market By Sarah Wolter The concerns follow a flurry of new technologies from New York to Hong Kong trying to drag the process of placing bonds into the 21st...
8/12/2020 2:43:21 PM SMBX raises $2.5m in Seed funding By Sarah Wolter San Francisco based marketplace connecting successful small businesses with everyday investors through small business bonds raised $2.5m...
5/21/2020 4:02:02 PM UK sells negative-yielding government bonds for first time By Faisal Kawar ‘Symbolic moment’ coincides with debate on whether Bank of England should move to negative rates.
2/14/2020 8:03:37 PM Catastrophes and correlations By Faisal Kawar The problem with a global pandemic bond for financial investors is that it's correlated, as the market goes down so do the value of the...
2/13/2020 10:53:56 PM Coronavirus strikes World Bank’s 2017 catastrophe bonds By Faisal Kawar The World Bank launched a $320m catastrophe bond issue in 2017 to back its Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility. Originally scheduled to...
11/7/2019 12:00:00 AM Michael Spencer invests in London startup Digital Debt Capital Markets By Faisal Kawar London based leading the "electronification" of bond markets has raised £2.5m in seed capital from a group of investors including...
8/8/2019 2:17:50 PM Inflated bond prices are lurking By FinTech Collective The Wall Street Journal reports that regulation aimed at improving rating quality has instead likely hurt it - competition has led...
5/18/2018 2:53:48 AM A Canadian startup applies machine-learning to corporate bond issuance By Gareth Jones Overbond’s algorithms estimate the timing and pricing of new bonds. Bankers, perhaps unsurprisingly, proclaim themselves sceptical that...
3/31/2017 3:45:07 PM Neighborly Partners with Burlington, VT By FinTech Collective San Francisco based bond startup Neighborly has partnered with Burlington, VT's local government for Burlington's 10-year, $27 million...
1/15/2016 2:32:02 AM A short history of the Bowie Bond By Gareth Jones The FT provides a brief history of the Bowie Bond. It seems the artist had a prescient view of the creative destruction the internet was...
10/1/2015 1:01:13 AM Kenya launches bond sale via mobile phone By Gareth Jones We really can learn a lot from emerging markets. Kenya launched the world’s first Treasury bond offered exclusively via a mobile phone in...