While only 12% to 15% of municipal bond trading volume is performed electronically, various market participants say the time to embrace new technologies is now.

The new relationship allows RIAs to access BondLink's hosted investor relations pages without having to leave InspereX's BondNav platform.

Through BondLink’s new ESG solution, the system provides investors with updates on an ongoing basis — not just at the time of sale — about the projects selected, their progress and any potential impacts.

Recognizing what ESG strategy or product is best suited for a given situation is a crucial first step for the market to establish long-needed standards and guide usage into the effective outcomes participants wish to see.

The platform allows advisors to tailor portfolios that have characteristics including state-specific credits, ESG considerations, duration targets and other criteria.

FactSet will become the CUSIP system's second operator on behalf of the American Bankers Association.

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Over the past year, Lumesis has expanded the capabilities of its DIVER suite of muni-focused business and regulatory solutions.

Intercontinental Exchange has acquired climate-change technology data providers risQ and Level 11 to further its alternative data capabilities.

ICE expanded its ESG reference data coverage to now include two million fixed-income instruments.

The firm added Lynn Martin, president of Fixed Income & Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., and Joe Geraci, partner at Old Orchard Capital and former Citi executive.

Municipal bonds are just contracts between issuers and investors, why not make them smart contracts?

Trades on alternative trading system platforms are smaller and more likely to involve securities with complex features, according to a new MSRB report.

The ICE risQ social impact scores will let municipal bond investors compare which communities will be socially impacted the most by their investments.

The pilot program aims to expand its all-to-all Open Trading marketplace by allowing investor clients to select a diversity dealer to intermediate in secondary trading.

Dozens of digital tools are billed as democratizing finance. But a number of entrepreneurs still see massive gaps.

BondLink and ICE said the deal will provide issuers with direct access to real-time market data as they come to market and throughout the lifecycle of a bond.

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Alpha Ledger Technologies, which had already done so in its home state of Washington, helped its first Oregon issuer record a municipal loan on a blockchain platform.

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