In January 2018, the regulations Mifid 2 & Mifir were introduced, which affect the securities market and thus the corporate bond market. The purpose of the introduction of the rules was, among other things, to increase transparency in the market as it was considered lacking. Transparency affects liquidity in later turn, as lower transparency can result in reduced liquidity. The study aims to see if there has been any change in liquidity since the transparency rules were introduced. To study this, a combination of quantitative and qualitative data is used. The quantitative data consists of 141 observations and the qualitative data consists of three interviews, this to generate a deeper analysis. The results of the study suggest that liquidity is generally good in the market, however, the results also indicate a decrease in liquidity. The results of the study thus contribute to future research and discussions regarding the regulations and possible improvements to make the market more transparent and liquid. / I januari år 2018 infördes regelverken Mifid 2 & Mifir, vilka berör värdepappersmarknaden och därmed företagsobligationsmarknaden. Syftet med reglernas införande var bland annat att öka transparensen på marknaden då den ansågs bristande. Transparensen påverkar i sin tur likviditeten då en lägre transparens kan resultera i att likviditeten minskar. Studien syftar tillatt se om det förekommer någon förändring i likviditeten sedan transparensreglerna infördes. För att studera detta används en kombination av kvantitativ och kvalitativ data. Kvantitativadata består av 141 observationer och kvalitativa data består av tre intervjuer, detta för attgenerera en djupare analys. Studiens resultat antyder att likviditeten generellt sett är god påmarknaden, dock indikerar även resultaten på en minskad likviditet. Resultaten i studien bidrar således till framtida forskning och diskussioner gällande regelverken och eventuella förbättringar för att marknaden ska bli mer transparent och likvid.

The credit crunch that started the 9th of August 2007 is generally viewed as the most significant crisis to affect the financial markets and the global economy since the 1930s.The UK financial sector was heavily hit by the crisis which resulted in a dry up in lending and left a black hole in the British banks‟ finances. During the last quarter of 2010 the GDP shank unexpectedly with 0.5 percent from the third quarter which created concerns about going back into the recession. Contrarily, for Swedish economy 2010 was an impressing year with an unexpected GDP growth of 7, 3 percent in the last quarter.The purpose of this study is to analyse how the finance crisis has affected the leading banks‟ performance within the two countries and see whether the differences in values can explain the difference in GDP growth during the last quarter of 2010. The analyse is performed through a financial ratio analysis of the different banks.The final results of the research indicates to that the Swedish banks have been more profitable, have had a more secure and higher quality of lending and more capacity to lower cost related to income than the British banks. The more distinctive negative influence is mostly based on the larger amount of credit losses the British banks had to experience which contributed to their significant decrease in earnings per share which created scepticism on the credit market followed by a severe slowdown in consumption and in GDP growth. Since the credit losses never got to same levels in Sweden as in the UK the scepticism of the Swedish banking system did not affect the reduction in credit use and house prises to the same extent and GDP growth could recover back to normal levels sooner than in the UK.