There has been lots of discussion this year on the challenges facing the London Stock Exchange and European equity markets compared to their thriving counterparts in the United States. Despite political initiatives to make the UK more attractive for equity listings, the recent case of Arm’s listing in New York suggests a struggle to compete with international rivals. This week, Raja delves into this issue. Much of this divergence can be explained by the influence of investor sentiment, partly thanks to FOMO. However, the LSEG's transformation into a data company may be a wise move in aligning with the global trend of information services becoming front and centre for all businesses.

Last week, we attended the Events Radar: 7th Annual Impact of Technology on Capital Markets conference hosted by Bond Radar in London, 7 years since when we were there at the very first conference held in 2016. This week on the blog, Raja reflects on not only Origin but our entire industry’s evolution in the past 7 years, as well as blockchain and DLT’s adoption in the debt capital market and recent developments in ‘digital bond’.

This week on the blog, John Judeh – Origin’s Lead Product Manager – shares his thoughts on how to create flexibility in a structured world, within the context of Origin’s Documentation product.

When most people hear the word 'Hackathon', it's not uncommon that images of dudes in black hoodies huddled up in front of a computer come to mind. When in reality, pop culture had done the word a great disservice. On this week's blog, Rob talks about what Hackathons really are, and how they had been an integral part of Origin's engineering DNA and even revolutionsied our product offering.

Origin’s recruitment and hiring process has been a huge contributor to our success. This week, Robert goes behind the scenes to explain what Origin looks for from junior talents, and how we foster their growth into business leaders.

This week on the blog, our Co-Founder and CTO Robert Taylor shares his thoughts on the client onboarding process for the Origin Documentation product.

This week, Rishi Sunak dropped a bombshell by announcing the cancellation of the northern section of the HS2 high speed rail project in the UK. For those in the UK, this looks like an internationally outlandish and foolish decision. But look across the pond, and the parallels with another high profile high speed rail project in California are eerily similar. This week, we look at the various economic and political implications these troubles may represent for their respective home countries, and how this all relates to one of our favourite cognitive biases: the sunk cost fallacy.

This week, Raja came across a talk by legendary investor Bill Gurley, who spoke about regulatory capture. Raja shares his thoughts on the subject and how today’s tech sector in particular, should be aware of the many dangers of misguided regulation.

Perenna has gotten regulatory approval and is set to start offering 30-year fixed rate mortgages in the UK, where frequent refinancing is much more prevalent. Raja shares his thoughts on what this might mean for the housing market, and how Origin can help transforming the market for the better.

Arm is targeting for an ambitious $48-52bn valuation in its upcoming IPO - possibly the biggest of the year. Despite questions regarding its valuation, fellow tech giants like Apple and Nvidia are lining up to back that price tag.

Our flight home on Monday was canceled due to the air traffic control malfunction in the UK. We made the best of it with an impromptu city break, and I can certainly think of worse places than The Tiger City to be stranded for a few days.

This week, I have been traveling in the Nordics, returning to one of my favourite parts of the world to meet clients and friends in Sweden and Norway.

For those of us who work in fixed-income, bonds never went anywhere. But for the general public, they are firmly back on the menu.

Since the BoE’s meaty 50bp rate rise in June – following a period of complacency earlier this year – inflation data has relented somewhat. The Monetary Policy Committee opted for a less aggressive 25bp rise at its August meeting, taking rates to 5.25%.

A fascinating story doing the rounds this week focused on an academic assault upon tech’s latest darling as it was reported that ChatGPT was getting “dumber”.

Interest rates have gone up considerably over the past 12 months, especially in the UK. And the headlines are shouting about the impact on borrowers, particularly mortgage holders. Yet, on the other side of the balance sheet, savers don’t seem to be getting a commensurate uplift on their savings rates.

The speech delivered this week by British Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to City executives at Mansion House in London got a lot of people thinking about pension reform.

This week we attended the Global Capital Bond Awards dinner, where for the third year in a row, we won two awards, Best Technology Platform for the SSA Primary Bond Market & Best Technology Platform for the FIG Primary Bond Market!

London’s Tech Week is always an opportunity to assess the strengths of the capital’s tech push.

This week on the blog, Rainer Wagner – who flies the flag for Origin from Frankfurt – gives his take on the state of the EU’s Capital Markets Union project.