“ Robert Totman, Managing Director, Head of Partnerships, NetRoadshow, said, “Connecting OMAS and NetRoadshow allows existing registered users of both platforms to access deal materials and communications via a single OMAS login. This is a significant step towards building an inter operable eco-system in primary debt capital markets.” ”

“Under the partnership, Marketnode and Covalent Capital will build an end-to-end digital infrastructure in the fixed-income space.”

“Lee Beng Hong, Senior Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC), SGX, said, “We are pleased to hit the ground running with Marketnode by partnering Covalent in this effort.”

“We examined the “capital market process to look at how we can further improve our services and have a major upgrade of level of service, efficiency,” added SGX’s head of fixed income, currencies and commodities Beng Hong Lee.”

“The partnership will connect Covalent’s OMAS platform, which is a data, book building and allocations tool, with SGX’s listing, post-trade and asset servicing capabilities. SGX said this provide the Asian bond market with a “unique, one-stop listing, issuance and lifecycle management platform”.”

“Marketnode and Covalent will, through their partnership, work together to streamline the listing, straight-through processing and settlement of bonds and activities in bond lifecycle management.”

“The demo Euromoney saw was impressive, comprehensive and smooth.”

“From issuing, trading and investing, to market infrastructure, fintech is set to revolutionize fixed income markets with collaboration among various players in the region.”

“It covers the full life-cycle of any new issuance – from roadshow through to allocations – although it is flexible enough to allow banks to choose which parts of the system to adopt.”

“It has nonetheless the potential to change the way bond deals in Asia are marketed and distributed.”