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Broadridge and InGovern Announce Alliance for Sales and Distribution of Proxy Research and Vote Recommendations for Listed Companies in India
Broadridge Financial Solutions, and InGovern Research Services today jointly announced an alliance for the sale and distribution of InGovern’s proxy research and vote recommendations for listed Indian companies through Broadridge’s ProxyEdge voting platform. This will immediately allow institutional investors, who are current users of the ProxyEdge platform, access to insights on governance of listed companies...
News – Machine Readable – is in the News
The low-latency delivery of machine readable news – to drive trading algorithms before the market moves – is a continuing story in itself. So here’s a quick roundup of recent headlines, including news from Selerity, Deutsche Borse, RavenPack and Thomson Reuters … * Selerity has installed an aggregation point of presence at Equinix’s Frankfurt data...
Virginie’s Blog – Are Valuations Vendors Making the Grade?
Back in July, I touched upon some of the findings of our valuations benchmarking efforts in the North American markets, noting that many buy side firms in these markets want vendor performance to improve to meet their current and future needs. Well, the full report is finally available to download (see here) and it seems...
CMA Launches CDS Pricing that Factor in Quanto Risk
CMA, the leading provider for intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has announced the launch of a new product that takes into account the CDS ‘Quanto’ spread of key Euro-zone Sovereigns. Given European sovereign CDS are typically traded in USD and not the domestic currency (Euros), in order to accurately mark-to-market, holders of Sovereign...
MSCI Launches New Barra Equity Models
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced today the launch of the first in a family of new Barra Equity Models – Barra US Equity Model (USE4). Barra USE4 includes the latest advances in risk methodology, providing institutional investors with...
MSCI Hires Peter Zangari as Head of Equity Portfolio Management Analytics Business
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today the appointment of Peter Zangari as Managing Director and Head of the firm’s Equity Portfolio Management Analytics business. In this role, Mr Zangari will be responsible for driving growth and product innovation across a broad range of equity portfolio management products, including Barra...
Q&A: TMX Datalinx’s Eric Sinclair on Global Expansion
In the wake of a called off merger with the London Stock Exchange, the acquisition this summer of Atrium Networks by Canada’s TMX Group gives it a global distribution network for its data services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com found out more from Eric Sinclair, president of TMX Datalinx and group head of information services. Q: Can you explain...
Virginie’s Blog – Things Keeping the Industry Awake at Night (About the LEI)
Standards are tricky beasts, they may be developed for one purpose and misused, and they are also often appropriated for purposes for which they were not initially intended. So choosing the right standard for something as important as legal entity identification (LEI) is obviously not a decision to be taken lightly and it is one...
ISDA and S&P Indices to Co-brand S&P Credit Default Swap Indices
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and S&P Indices announced today that they will co-brand S&P’s existing Credit Default Swap (CDS) Indices as S&P/ISDA CDS Indices. The S&P/ISDA CDS Indices seek to reflect the credit default swap market for U.S. corporate credits and increase transparency for market participants. “We are very pleased to...
CMA’s Moody Talks up Recent Launch of its OTC Derivatives Valuations Solution CMA NAVigate 1.6
CME Group owned data business CMA has recently launched a new OTC derivatives workflow solution that is aimed at streamlining the mark to market process and granting access to all valuation inputs for reporting purposes. Reference Data Review speaks to Gareth Moody, vice president of sales for the Americas, who joined the vendor as a start up...