CB Insights

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Turbulent market conditions have rattled capital markets tech funding, which fell 84% YoY in Q3’22. . These technologies enable capital markets firms not only to adapt to market volatility, but also to pursue new growth opportunities. ESG reporting requirements. Trade analytics and execution.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

A combination of relatively hawkish July FOMC minutes and softer global economic reports gave risk markets a slightly negative tone last week. The more hawkish Fed view showed up in the currency markets as the U.S. The labor market continues to recover as initial jobless claims continue to decline. Last Week.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Equity markets decided to look at the glass as half full, last week—keying in on initial reports that the Omicron Covid variant might be very contagious but not as lethal as Delta—and got their rally on. The tech-heavy NASDAQ managed to defy the narrative that it trades with positive interest rate duration, heading up 3.6%

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AUGUST 9, 2021

The volatility in rate markets last week was one for the ages. The week was a tale of two markets. The first was the continuation of the punishing rally that has burned shorts and frustrated yield chasers.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the rates markets, more and more participants have begun to accept as fact that the inflationary pressures being experienced in all corners of the economy and most of the world aren’t going away anytime soon. It was a tale of two worlds last week.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Last week, 2s-30s flattened 20 basis points as the market began to price in inflationary pressures lasting for a period that is more than transitory. Another wild week as we continue to live in “interesting times”. The Treasury yield curve steepening theme suddenly reversed course.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Both risk and Treasury markets spent most of last week guessing what Fed Chairman Powell was going to say when he spoke at the annual Fed summit at Jackson Hole, WY, then reacting to the actual address on Friday. Chairman Powell provided what can be called a “dovish taper”.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Meanwhile, Friday’s huge non-farm payroll miss sent shivers through risk markets. The Commodity Research Bureau Raw Material Index ended the week less than one percent from its all-time high.

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JULY 6, 2021

Impervious to bad news, such as the spread of the “Delta Variant,” further Fed speak on tapering, warnings of impending doom from market sages, and continued signs of inflation, the stocks party on. Last Week: Equities continued to grind higher with the S&P 500 managing to set new all-time highs every day of the week.

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MAY 10, 2021

Last Week: In an action-packed week, the equity markets continued the big equity rotation trade where the high-flying “Big Tech” and “Fintech Disrupter” stocks lost more ground to value stocks, such as banks. A good example of the activity could be found in two Exchange Traded Funds.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Two, read and enjoy the 2021 GonzoBanker awards, our annual take on the best things we saw during the year. So which merger was the best in 2021? Doug Larson. THE BANKER AWARDS.

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MARCH 29, 2021

The Treasury market survived another supply deluge as the Treasury auctioned off approximately $180 billion in debt (two-year, five-year, and seven-year). Last Week: Last week saw the resumption of the rotation trade in equities as large-cap value stocks outperformed small-cap and growth stocks.

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Perficient

MARCH 30, 2023

The front office is screaming down to the Settlement Office, “Operations, we need more capital!” Any operations team that has dealt with a stock loan trading desk can contest the inherent friction between providing more available securities to the desk and reliance on settlement cycles and market constraints.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets.

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JUNE 17, 2021

The municipal bond market took a wild ride in the first half of the year to near-historic levels of richness versus Treasuries that is rarely seen, and the environment is ripe for the second half of the year to take it even further.

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MAY 3, 2021

Notable market participants such as Jeff Gundlach and David Einhorn disagree. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve FOMC meeting showed a Fed that has every intention to let the economy run hot, even as inflationary readings pick up. The Fed views the spikes we are seeing in commodities and other production inputs as “transitory.”

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JUNE 28, 2021

It appears that real money buying and fast money short-covering of Treasuries has abated as supply continues to flood the market. The Treasury conducted massive two-year, five-year, and seven-year auctions, which were received fairly well.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Global blockchain deals and dollars shattered records in 2021. In our State Of Blockchain 2021 Report, we dig into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways like: What drove the biggest year in blockchain funding yet — and what’s on the horizon. Which city is the crypto capital of the US. And much more.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The sell-off in rates has been orderly, so far, as we have not seen much forced duration selling yet from the mortgage market. The 10-year Treasury jumped 13 basis points, while the two-year remained firmly anchored.

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SWBC's LenderHub

JANUARY 19, 2021

While 2020 started out as a difficult year for Municipal Bonds, those investors that were nimble and not ruled by fear, ended up having a good—if not a great—year. The spike in Municipal Yields during the first quarter ended up being a significant buying opportunity for individual bonds and structured products.

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BankUnderground

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As another year draws to an end and the blog prepares for some downtime over the festive period, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2021. How does international capital flow? We hope you enjoyed the blog in 2021. In response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020 we launched a Special series: Covid-19 Briefings.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Last week was mostly about the Fed’s FOMC December meeting, until it was not! The week started with November PPI coming in red-hot. The narrative was set for a more hawkish Fed in 2022 as the realization set in that inflation was not transitory and stronger medicine was needed.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2022

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently released the economic and financial market scenarios that will be used in the upcoming stress tests for covered institutions. Equity market volatility, as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), declines in 2022 by about 6.5 to hover around 2.50

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tap, tap, tap,” went fingers onto the shoulders of traders with bad, short positions in long-dated U.S. Treasuries, and the bloody short squeeze continued. On Wednesday, the FOMC meeting concluded, and the message was mixed.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Another crazy week in a wild year. We spent the first three days of the week ratcheting up the odds of the potential of a faster Fed taper and earlier policy rate hikes, then we spent the day after the Thanksgiving holiday reversing those odds in near panic mode.

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MAY 17, 2021

Market economists were already expecting a significant increase of 3.6%, so the large miss to the upside was huge. Bond yields yo-yoed around, choosing to follow the equity market as opposed to leading, which is a bit rare considering inflation readings would normally have bond yields leading the way, as opposed to equities.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Last week was one for the ages in rates space. The week started where it left off the prior with inflation breakevens (BE) exploding with the 5-year BE hurtling toward 3%. Then, in the middle of the week, the Bank of Canada announced that it was ending its quantitative easing buying and signaled that they would begin tightening in early 2022.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

It was quite an ugly week for just about everything but oil and bitcoin. Stocks were down sharply, giving their worst monthly performance since March 2020. High-Yield corporate debt showed some signs of weakening as well. It feels like the world is waking up to the real possibilities of stagflation.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 8, 2022

There is a lively debate about whether and how capital regulations for banks and insurers should be adjusted in response to climate change. Incorporating climate-related risks into the capital regime will require a reliable methodology to measure these risks. Marco Bardoscia, Benjamin Guin and Misa Tanaka.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Treasury auctioned off three-year, 10-year, and 30-year notes for a grand total of $126 billion in new issuance. The highlight was the stupendous showing of the 10-year note on Wednesday. The new note stopped through pre-auction yield three basis points, while all the measures of auction performance were very solid. year-over-year increase.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We started last week in a panic over Chinese real estate conglomerate Evergrande’s impending doom and ended the week back in our happy place as Wednesday’s FOMC meeting pronouncement and press conference soothed nerves. In addition, the Chinese government took some steps to keep Evergrande from a “Lehman-Style Event”.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Last Week: Despite a rapidly worsening global wave of Covid, catastrophic natural disasters, and weaker than expected economic numbers—culminating with a huge downside miss for August employment creation—risk assets managed to pull out gains for the week.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

The highlight of the week was the July FOMC meeting and announcement. Importantly, there was some language change that acknowledged the continued progress made by the economy and that they are now actively looking at the data to decide when to begin tapering.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Acquisitions allow organizations to spread costs across a larger asset base, recognize synergies within business lines, reduce staff, and consolidate branches in overlapping markets. Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond. SBA Lending.

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JULY 26, 2021

Another week, another new all-time high for stocks. Equities plunged at the beginning of the week. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6% on Monday as risk assets reacted to the very real risk of the COVID-19 Delta variant causing havoc and snuffing out the recovery.

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Accenture

JANUARY 23, 2022

The market turmoil of 2020-2021, along with an unprecedented surge that has renewed a focus on retail investors, has pushed direct investing platforms into the spotlight. However, during the pandemic we witnessed the union of social (media, communities and group action) and capital (saving and trading) as….

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JUNE 7, 2021

While the major stock indices continued to grind higher and Treasury yields drifted in a very tight range, last week was still quite interesting. Retail investors, the new 800-pound gorilla, drove their new love interest, AMC, up 83% for the week. At one point on Tuesday, the stock was up over 140% from the prior week’s close.

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