When you ask ChatGPT, what the future of bond placement will be, you get an elaborate enough answer. The language model describes 5 dimensions alongside which the future of bond placement will develop: digitalization, blockchain technology, AI, ESG and regulatory changes. The model accurately reflects the marketing language of a plethora of publications that most of the inclined readership of CMD will be able to produce at a moments notice. This is neither to say that the language model is simplistic nor that our mere human efforts are lacking. It seems rather that, having to speculate about what the future holds in store, we are driven to recite conventional wisdom. And that is repeated by the language model. So, let‘s try to account for the conventional wisdom and try to draw a few lines beyond as we go along.