The collective sale fever last year could kick some life back into the lacklustre Singdollar bond market, say experts.
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How APIs are changing finance
Asia's debt market: a story of progress
Back in 1994, when I first moved to Hong Kong, the debt capital markets in Asia excluding Japan were almost non-existent. The only way domestic issuers could raise financing was from the loan market, either domestically or offshore, or in the G3 currencies (US dollar, euro or Japanese yen) for the best of them. The few “bonds” were actually loan-style fixed-rated notes, syndicated primarily to banks.
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Here’s where Credit Suisse sees the risk of a bear market for bonds
- A major trigger of last week's market sell-off was the steady but unrelenting climb in U.S. Treasury yields.
- Credit Suisse's Global Head of Technical Analysis believes the surpassing of 3.05 percent on the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield could signal a bond bear market.
- Many experts hold that no specific level necessarily means a bear market, and that judgement is subjective.
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Internet giants battle to lure banks into cloud
As commercial banking and trading move towards a more high-touch and personalised service while also staying in line with regulations – so financial firms will need greater insights from data. Artificial intelligence can help detect fraud in petabytes of data, while the internet of things – a network of physical devices – helps them track customer behaviour.
