Barra has expanded the coverage of its Cosmos bond portfolio management system to include a wider range of securities and benchmarks. The new version – Cosmos 3.1 – has broader U.S. fixed-income coverage. Barra has also added a number of indices, including the iboxx euro and sterling credit indices and mortgages. In addition, Cosmo 3.1 features new market-implied credit ratings and an expanded credit spread model.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Sarva Srinivasan, Managing Director, NeoXam Americas. For decades, outsourcing across all industries has been synonymous with trimming the back office, streamlining headcount, and delegating so called non-core processes to third parties. But in the world of finance, the ground is well and truly shifting. As the asset management and servicing industries face mounting multi-asset...
The London sustainability breakfast is part of the global roundtable thought leadership event series hosted by RepRisk in key markets, including, New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hong Kong and Singapore in 2026.
This special report accompanies a webinar we held a webinar on the popular topic of Pricing and Valuations, discussing issues such as transparency of pricing and how to ensure data quality. You can register here to get immediate access to the Special Report.
