Financial technology (FinTech) refers to the use of new software and applications to improve and automate the financial services sector. This ranges from the technology deployed in back and middle…
Last week, I was interviewed by bond industry veteran JR Rieger of the Rieger Report to discuss the latest service provided by Bondview, the Municipal Bond Reference Data Service.
The U.S. municipal bond market is extremely large with over one million individual bonds from over 50 thousand issuers. While there are some big issuers, such as state or city…
Need to find the complete profile for 100, 1000 or even 1m municipal bonds? Historically it has been a difficult and expensive process to capture and store municipal bond data…
Summary 1) Investment firms are required to monitor their clients holdings on an on-going basis to ensure that the credits remain appropriate for their risk profile. 2) This can…
Key Takeaways: 1) Despite an overall improvement in the outlook for the municipal bond market, some sectors may remain vulnerable to default until the economy turns the corner. 2) BondView…
Last week, I was interviewed by bond industry veteran JR Rieger of the Rieger Report to discuss the Bondview 500 Liquid Municipal Bond Index, the first muni bond index based…
Key Takeaways: 1) During market turmoil sparked by COVID-19, the Bondview 500 Index provided superior cushioning and outperformed the Top Five Largest Municipal Bond Funds. 2) The BondView 500…
New Jersey’s American Dream Mall has been shut since March, and mutual funds that bought municipal bonds backing its construction have since taken hundreds of millions of dollars in paper…
BondView’s CEO Robert Kane, was quoted in “Ignites” regarding bond fund liquidity problems related to the COVID-19 economic impact. When the liquidity in fixed-income markets “dried up” in mid-March 2020, …