CMA Enters Credit Pricing Arena With Buy Side Observed Data…
Participants in the credit markets have access to a new pricing data source from CMA, provider of the CMA DataVision service now available via Bloomberg Professional. CMA, founded in 2001 by credit specialists and with offices in London and New York, says its credit default swap (CDS) pricing service is differentiated from competing offerings by...
… While Markit Moves into Loan CDS Pricing as Volumes Escalate
Markit Group has launched a pricing service for loan credit default swaps (LCDSs), to meet demand from dealers and institutional investors wishing to take synthetic exposure to secured loan issuers. Volumes in the LCDS market have surged, the vendor says, with notional outstandings estimated to have grown more than 300 per cent to $40 billon...
Credit Dimensions Revealed as Reuters’ Counterparty Data Partner
Reuters confirms it is working with Credit Dimensions to bring to market its counterparty data service, now scheduled to launch in the Q1/Q2 timeframe next year. Kevin Bradshaw, global head of Enterprise Information at Reuters, says the vendor is in advanced discussions with several major bulge bracket firms both in Europe and the US which...
Trace Ties Up With Telekurs, Reuters For ISO 15022 CA Data
Trace Financial and Telekurs Financial have worked together to offer enhanced delivery mechanisms for the Telekurs Financial Valordata Feed (VDF). As a result of this effort, VDF corporate actions information can be mapped directly to a customer’s business system through the Trace Financial Transformer application, using a data dictionary approach, the partners say. Telekurs Financial’s...
DSTi/Markit Alliance Enhances Risk and Performance ASP
DST International and Markit Group have agreed to provide Markit’s CDS, bond and index pricing data via DSTi’s Risk Management and Performance Measurement ASP service to mutual customers.
New Cusip Now Service Delivers Free 15 Minute Updates
The Standard & Poor’s Cusip Service Bureau has unveiled Cusip Now, an issue alert service available free to all licensed Cusip customers from December. Cusip Now uses push technology to deliver new Cusip issues and reference data to market participants every 15 minutes. The service delivers Cusip data via FTP downloads to client databases and...
Siperian, CounterpartyLink Partner on Legal Entity Data Management
California based Siperian has forged an alliance with CounterpartyLink under which CounterpartyLink’s global legal entity data can be fed directly into Siperian’s counterparty master data management solution Siperian Hub. According to the partners, this alliance will support financial institutions’ efforts to comply with anti-money laundering, know your customer and Basel II regulations as well as...
AXA IM Initiates Counterparty Phase of Reference Data Project
Having selected Capco as business service provider and CounterpartyLink as data provider, AXA Investment Managers has kicked off the third party client data phase of its ongoing reference data project. Analysis is under way at the firm into the approach to take in the next phase of the project, focusing on securities data. But despite...
A New Age of Automation For Proxy Voting on Horizon?
The similarity of the proxy voting process to the corporate actions process has in some ways negatively impacted efforts to automate proxy voting, but a recently initiated pilot of new Swift proxy voting messages could herald in greater efficiencies to the process. This was the message from Chad Spitler, principal/associate director, corporate governance and proxy...
Panmure Gordon Tests New CA Data Feeds via Mondas System
Following a rapid 12 week implementation, institutional stockbroker Panmure Gordon & Co is live on the Radica CAPS corporate actions processing system from Mondas. The system is currently taking corporate actions data feeds from Panmure’s international custodian BNP Paribas and vendor Exchange Data International (EDI). The firm is also testing feeds from Telekurs Financial and...