Credit trading is changing - does your firm have the data, analytics and technology required to take advantage of this new environment?

This survey was conducted during a webinar on “The Evolution of Credit Trading: Technology, Analytics, and Data,” hosted by Quantifi, featuring Celent and 7 Chord Inc. More than 100 individuals from the financial services industry registered for the webinar and were invited to participate.

Relative value credit analytics has been the subject of investor attention over the last 12 months, due to the surge of issuance seen in the bond market and the volatility within the credit sector during COVID-19. Both created opportunities for realisation of value, and whilst the markets calmed down from the turbulence 12 months prior, the party is not over.

In 2018, Michael Azlen, a senior investment professional, began to research climate change and environmental investment, focussing on carbon pricing and Emissions Trading Systems (ETS). He is now the Founder and CEO of Carbon Cap Management, which aims to raise awareness about climate change and provide solutions directly related to the capping and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.

Quantifi recently took part in Intel's Coffee Chat series to discuss their partnership and collaboration with Intel. This Q&A was taken from the video series where Intel Vice President, Pete Baker, discusses risk analysis, analytics and artificial intelligence on Intel architecture in the financial services sector with Sebastian Hahn, AI Lead, Quantifi.

Given the strategic importance of XVA, banks require enhanced capabilities and modern infrastructures to calculate the required credit, funding, and capital adjustments. As banks look to reduce, mitigate, and optimize XVA and other capital charges, they are making investment in XVA capabilities in an attempt to solve the computational challenge of simulating a full universe of risk factors.

Commodity Technology Advisory's CTRMCenter recently received a briefing and a demonstration on the firm’s activities and solutions in the commodities markets.

This blog explores the effects of the pandemic on the credit derivatives market and more specifically, how recent bankruptcies affected North American high yield (NA HY) CDS index trading, including CDX.NA.HY indices and the options on them.

This process has revealed a number of challenges for financial markets participants, with many having to rethink their operations and technology infrastructure and adopting new technologies to help with the transition.