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With geopolitical risk, inflation and fiscal pressures rising, a focus on liquidity, diversification and bottom-up insights may help uncover opportunities. Learn more here.

As fixed income returns evolve, security selection may play a larger role in uncovering opportunity and managing risk. Learn more here.

Integrating macro trends with real-time company insights may help identify inflection points and support more informed risk decisions. Learn more here.

The Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act Tuesday, with a 49-50 vote falling short of the 60 needed to proceed. The bill, which aimed to divide oversight between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, faced opposition over ethics concerns related to President Donald Trump. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted no to preserve the right to reconsider, leaving little chance for the bill to become law this year.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming fixed-income trading by addressing the challenge of fragmented information. AI, particularly generative AI, can process large volumes of unstructured data, while machine learning excels at structured prediction, such as bond valuation, writes Alex Evangeli.

Sense Street and S&P Global Market Intelligence have partnered to enhance automation in the primary bond market by turning unstructured chat communications into structured data. This data is input directly into S&P's IssueBook application, reducing manual processing and improving operational efficiency.

India's Demat 2.0 pilot for tokenized bonds has seen two more issuances following the inaugural issuance by REC. L&T raised 5 billion rupees from four investors, and IIFL raised 250 million rupees from a single investor, bringing the pilot's total to 10.25 billion rupees. The bonds are natively digital, issued as tokens on a distributed ledger technology network owned by the National Securities Depository and Central Depository Services. The pilot is in its first stage, with future stages planned to include retail investors and secondary market trading.

In 1924, MFS launched the US’ first open-end mutual fund. More than 100 years later, we are a full-service global investment manager serving financial advisors, intermediaries and institutional clients around the world. Our time-tested, active investing approach combines collective expertise, long-term discipline and thoughtful risk management to uncover what we believe are the best investment opportunities in the public markets.