{"id":78446,"date":"2024-07-12T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/fixed-income-pricing-what-goes-into-pricing-a-bond\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T22:38:07","slug":"fixed-income-pricing-what-goes-into-pricing-a-bond","status":"publish","type":[3762],"link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/fixed-income-pricing-what-goes-into-pricing-a-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed income pricing: What goes into pricing a bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <style>section[data-anchor=row-6a08fe8aaf102]::before {\n\t\t\t\tbackground-color: #eeeeee;\n\t\t\t}<\/style>\n    <section class=\"bbg-row bg--custom-color  bg--eeeeee text--black bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a08fe8aaf102'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8 bbg-column--valign-bottom\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p>    <ul class=\"bbg-categories_list\">\n                    <li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/category\/data\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\n                    Data\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n                    <li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/category\/trading\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\n                    Trading\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 24px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div>    <h1 class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--title\">Fixed income pricing: What goes into pricing a bond?<\/h1>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-compact row-padding--bottom-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a08fe8ab4d1e'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 40px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div><div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><strong>Bloomberg Professional Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n    <p class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--date\">July 12, 2024<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-none row-padding--bottom-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a08fe8ab6cc6'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In today\u2019s volatile, complex and increasingly regulated financial markets, the need for accurate, transparent securities pricing is critical. Understanding what goes into the price of a fixed income security is critical for market participants to make trading and execution decisions with confidence. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Demystifying the BVAL Score<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bloomberg Evaluated Pricing Service (\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bloom.bg\/BVAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BVAL<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d), provides prices for over 2.8 million bonds across the liquidity spectrum, ranging from highly liquid securities to thinly traded and hard to price bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbg-interstitial\" aria-label=\"interstitial\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t.bbg-interstitial #card_1.bbg-card_hasCta{\n\t\t\tbackground:rgba(0,0,0,0);\n\t\t\tpadding: 104px;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t}\n\t\t.bbg-interstitial #card_1.bbg-card_hasCta .bbg-card__content, .bbg-interstitial #card_1.bbg-card_hasCta .bbg-card__content p{\n\t\t\tcolor:inherit;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 768px) {\n\t\t\t.bbg-interstitial #card_1.bbg-card_hasCta{\n\t\t\t\tpadding: 80px 32px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 480px) {\n\t\t\t.bbg-interstitial #card_1.bbg-card_hasCta{\n\t\t\t\tpadding: 80px 18px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_content_element bbg-card  bbg-card-dark bbg-card_hasCta has_interstitial\" id=\"card_1\" data-card_type=\"no_image\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"bbg-card__innerwrapper\">\n    <div class=\"bbg-card__content\">\n      \n      \n                      <h3 class=\"bbg-card__title\">Empower your work with Enterprise Data & Technology monthly insights<\/h3>\n      \n              <div class=\"bbg-card__wysiwyg bb-wysiwyg\"><p>Sign up for the newsletter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n          \n<div\n  id=\"cta_2866906597989880850\"\n  class=\"wpb_content_element bbg-cta icon icon-arrow\">\n  <style>\n    \n    \n    \n  <\/style>\n  <div\n    class=\"bbg-cta-link link-holder\"\n    data-links-type=\"cta-links\">\n    <p class=\"bbg-cta-p right\">\n      <a\n        class=\"bbg-cta-link link interstitial_cta\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/newsletter\/enterprise-data-and-tech\/\"\n        target=\"_blank\"\n        rel=\"\"\n        data-section-name=\"\"\n                role=\"button\"\n        aria-label=\"Learn more\"\n        >\n                <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To price these bonds, BVAL receives data from a variety of sources, to ensure that the price determined reflects the underlying market conditions. These sources include contracted data suppliers such as exchanges; publicly available trade reporting sources, such as MSRB, TRACE and MiFID data; market quotes from banks, broker-dealers and other Bloomberg Terminal subscribers; as well as data provided by BVAL subscribers (e.g., through the price challenge process). Any of these data sources may be incorporated into BVAL\u2019s models and used to generate a BVAL price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help clients and users better understand what goes into pricing a bond, especially if it\u2019s a thinly traded bond, each BVAL price comes with a score.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What does the BVAL Score measure?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BVAL Score is a proprietary and innovative measure on a scale of 1 (the lowest) to 10 (the highest) of the amount and consistency of the market inputs used to calculate each BVAL price. It measures the relative strength of the recency, quantity, and quality of market data used to calculate the BVAL price for a particular security at a particular snapshot. While the score does not assess the accuracy of a BVAL price, it does provide a window into the underlying data inputs used by BVAL in arriving at that price. In other words, the higher the BVAL score, the greater the quantity, the higher the quality and the more recent the data inputs are underlying the score.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"wpb_content_element bbg-single-image align-center\">\n    <figure class=\"bbg-single-image__figure\" style=\"max-width:1024px\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/41\/Chart-1.png\" class=\"bbg-single-image__image attachment-large\" alt=\"The BVAL Score Scale\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/41\/Chart-1.png 800w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/41\/Chart-1.png 552w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/41\/Chart-1.png 768w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/41\/Chart-1.png 1005w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n        \n            <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To put these scores in perspective, it\u2019s helpful to understand BVAL\u2019s two pricing models: Direct Observations and Observed Comparables. Direct Observations means BVAL first assesses available market data with respect to the target bond, which may consist of trades, executable levels or indicative quotes. For an executable level or indicative quote to be included in the Direct Observations algorithm, there must be at least two data points from at least two different dealers and those data points must be at sufficiently proximate levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When direct observations are not available or are insufficient, BVAL uses the Observed Comparables model. This means BVAL assesses data regarding bonds that, in BVAL\u2019s determination, are comparable to the target bond to derive a price on the target bond. The final BVAL price is determined by aggregating the weighted average of Direct Observations and Observed Comparables and is based on the relative strength of the output of each model\u2019s algorithm. However, when direct observations of a price are not available, the max BVAL Score is a 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BVAL Score is not a statement of accuracy, relative quality or an indicator of confidence in the BVAL Price.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>When is a low BVAL score helpful?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lower BVAL score means the BVAL price was generated by the Observed Comparables model and\/or by the Direct Observations model but with aged data. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this scenario, BVAL may still be high quality as it incorporates other market information such as issuer curves, sector curves and market spreads to determine price. Therefore, a lower BVAL score should be viewed as an indication of lower liquidity, not lower quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, a higher BVAL score reflects that the BVAL price was generated by the Direct Observations model, using recent direct observations on the target bond such as trades, and\/or with high corroboration across multiple executable or indicative data. This is equally valuable intel because it provides users with an understanding of the market data supporting a BVAL valuation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Clear, defensible pricing<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BVAL provides transparency into how each price valuation is produced, detailing and explaining the process with insight into the data inputs and methodologies used so clients can understand how pricing valuations are derived. To learn more about BVAL, view our website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bloom.bg\/BVAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px\"><em>The data included in these materials are for illustrative purposes only. The BLOOMBERG TERMINAL service and Bloomberg data products (the \u201cServices\u201d) are owned and distributed by Bloomberg Finance L.P. (\u201cBFLP\u201d) except (i) in Argentina, Australia and certain jurisdictions in the Pacific Islands, Bermuda, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, where Bloomberg L.P. and its subsidiaries (\u201cBLP\u201d) distribute these products, and (ii) in Singapore and the jurisdictions serviced by Bloomberg\u2019s Singapore office, where a subsidiary of BFLP distributes these products. 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No aspect of the BVAL valuation or other data is based on the consideration of a customer\u2019s individual circumstances and information available via BVAL should not be considered as information sufficient upon which to base an investment decision. You should determine on your own whether you agree with the BVAL valuation. BVAL may not be available in certain jurisdictions. BVAL is not recognized or licensed as an official pricing provider in any jurisdiction, and should not be relied upon to comply with any laws or regulations that prescribe the use of prices issued by authorized pricing providers. BVAL should not be construed as tax, accounting, legal or regulatory advice or opinions, or sufficient to satisfy any tax, accounting, legal or regulatory requirements. You are solely responsible for the selection and use of appropriate parameters, inputs, models, formulas and data for meeting your tax, accounting, legal or regulatory requirements. 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