Rare Earths 2026 Outlook
Bloomberg Intelligence’s Rare Earths 2026 Outlook warns that geopolitical friction, heightened defense budgets, and export controls are fragmenting the rare‑earth market. China’s dominance is being challenged as governments seek alternative sources for magnet‑critical materials like neodymium‑praseodymium (NdPr). While new projects and policy incentives aim to diversify supply, near‑term shortages and regional price gaps are expected to persist. The report outlines how these dynamics will shape pricing power and long‑term access strategies through 2030.
A Correlation-Based Framework for Market Regime Detection Using Bloomberg MAC3
Bloomberg’s MAC3 risk model now uses cross‑asset correlation matrices to identify market regimes, revealing structural shifts that traditional volatility or spread metrics miss. The analysis shows that the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic shock, while both risk‑off events,...
Bloomberg Unveils ASKB Roadmap for Clients to Augment Their Investment Process with Agentic AI
Bloomberg announced a 2026 roadmap for its ASKB conversational AI, now in beta, to embed agentic AI across the Terminal’s investment workflow. The plan adds enterprise‑grade integrations with Portfolio & Risk Analytics, Research Management Solutions, alternative‑data feeds and expert‑network content,...
Bridging Global Markets: Unlocking Opportunities in Korea’s Evolving Treasury Landscape
South Korea is shedding its historic "Korea discount" by overhauling the Treasury Bond market and aligning capital‑market standards with global indices. Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun Cheol announced reforms such as 24‑hour FX trading, omnibus account integration, and extended settlement hours,...
Asset Allocation for Alternatives: Digital Assets
Digital assets are moving from niche holdings into mainstream institutional portfolios, driven by better market infrastructure and the rise of index‑based products. The report outlines how crypto exposure, often paired with gold and the US dollar, can improve risk‑adjusted returns...
Sophisticated Trading Strategies Through Automation and Real-Time Feeds
Financial institutions are accelerating a shift to cloud‑native, API‑driven architectures to support real‑time intelligence and automation. BBVA partnered with Bloomberg and AWS to rebuild its volatility‑marking system in the cloud, while Singapore‑based dtcpay leverages automated stablecoin‑fiat swaps across Asia. Executives...
The Iran Conflict: Out-of-Sample Evidence for Global Energy Diversification
The Iran‑driven closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sharply disrupted global oil and LNG flows, exposing the limits of region‑centric benchmarks. Murban crude surged to about $50 a barrel, creating a historic $48 spread versus WTI, while European gas...
From Patience to Precision: How Family Offices Are Adapting to a More Complex Investment Environment
Family offices, long valued for patient capital, are confronting a more complex investment landscape marked by geopolitical uncertainty, longer private‑market exits and rapid market dislocations. A Bloomberg Family Office Summit poll shows they are becoming more selective, with 63% favoring...
Automation Vs. Instinct: Striking the Right Balance in Modern Treasury
Modern treasury now blends human instinct with digital intelligence, using automation to free treasurers from routine tasks while preserving strategic decision‑making. Most treasury systems can forecast cash flows but stumble at execution, prompting a shift toward connected, policy‑driven workflows that...
Understanding the Market Slippage Trap
Corporate treasurers often rely on rolling FX forwards, assuming each renewal fully neutralises exposure, but each roll creates market slippage that erodes margins. Bloomberg’s Global Head of Buyside Treasury, Chintan Shah, warns this hidden cost can turn a prudent hedge...
ASIC’s Evolving Oversight of Australia’s Private Markets
Australia’s private markets are shifting from niche alternatives to a core pillar of capital formation, with private credit expanding 500% to over AUD 200 billion (≈USD 132 billion) and superannuation funds now managing AUD 4.3 trillion (≈USD 2.8 trillion), of which more than 20% is allocated to unlisted...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Trading and Markets
The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) released a consultation paper proposing a standalone market‑abuse framework for IFSC securities, replacing reliance on SEBI rules and introducing hybrid principle‑ and rule‑based standards. In Europe, ESMA approved supplementary deferral timelines for sovereign...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Risk, Capital and Financial Stability
Recent financial stress has spurred a wave of regulatory initiatives worldwide. In the United States, the Treasury signaled a possible reset of bank liquidity rules, including a review of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio and discount‑window caps. China’s CSRC introduced a...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Green Finance
Bloomberg’s March Global Regulatory Brief highlights a wave of green‑finance rulemaking across four jurisdictions. Australia’s Treasury is consulting on a sustainable‑product labeling regime with a submission deadline of 13 March, while the EU has published its final sustainability omnibus law, tightening...
APAC Buy-Side Firms Embrace AI, Automation To Optimize Business Processes
A new Bloomberg‑WatersTechnology survey of 50 APAC buy‑side firms shows AI and automation have moved from pilot projects to production‑grade deployment. Seventy‑two percent of respondents use AI moderately, primarily for research and market analysis, while 84 percent have integrated APIs...