Velocity of Houses and Bonds
How similar are the bond and housing markets? Roughly $2 trillion of housing stock moves each year, compared to almost $86 trillion in US Corporate bonds. What does this mean for commissions?
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Chinese Bond Big Bang
Asset backed securities has grown to $14 billion in issuance per month in China. With foreign investors on their way, will Chinese issuers adopt Western bond market best practices?
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Best Practice Seatbelts
At the excellent IMN/SFIG Vegas conference last week there was frequent discussion of a potential coming downturn. Are the best days of credit risk behind us? Would a back-up in rates stress borrowers to the point of default? And for structured credit, what protections are in place to protect investors from a replay of 2008 bad behavior?
Read moreWe have over $2 trillion of deals loaded on the platform already. And the industry has noticed.
