US Department of Justice Scrutinises Markit’s CDS Activities
Regulatory scrutiny of the derivatives market is at an all time high following the financial crisis and the desire of the regulatory community to be seen to be taking the issues raised by the crisis in hand. Most recently up for investigation is data provider Markit Group, which is currently under investigation by the US...
FCAG Says Mark to Market Rules Not to Blame for Procyclical Nature of Market
The Financial Crisis Advisory Group (FCAG) has released its final report indicating that mark to market accounting standards did not fuel the procyclicality of the market. The group, which is the joint effort between the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), established to tackle accounting standards in the...
Pricing Partners’ Stochastic Volatility Model to be Discussed at Scientific Conference
Pricing Partners’ latest research about the acceleration by a factor 100, calculating the price of financial options with a stochastic volatility model, has caught the attention of the scientific committee, the 33rd edition of the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2009) Conference, and will be presented during the week of this conference in Berlin...
TFX to Publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index Price Data on Website
Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has announced that it will publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index price data on its website from 27 July 2009. TFX has previously contributed to the development of the Japanese credit markets by publishing credit default swap (CDS) reference rates on its website. By publishing data on the Markit iTraxx Japan Index,...
Provident Risk Management Selects Fincad’s Fair Value Insight for Valuations
Provident Risk Management is using Fincad’s Fair Value Insight as the foundation for its clients’ credit risk management and market valuations for interest rate derivatives and maximum potential credit exposure. Fair Value Insight is a secure web-based independent valuation solution built upon Fincad’s industry standard analytics and Icap’s market data. The solution enables corporate treasuries,...
Interactive Data Reports 4.6% Revenue Increase for Reference Data Biz in Q2 2009
Despite the difficult economic environment, Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data has experienced revenue growth of 4.6% in the second quarter of this year compared to last year’s figures. This is in contrast to a decrease for the vendor’s overall financial results for the second quarter ended 30 June 2009, US$185.0 million compared with...
Icap and Fincad Team up for Fair Value Insight Solution
Icap and Fincad have launched a new solution to address the growing need for increased transparency and independent valuations allowing better liquidity, counterparty and operational risk management. Fair Value Insight is a secure web-based derivatives valuation solution built on Fincad’s industry standard analytics and Icap’s market data. The solution enables corporate treasuries, banks, asset management...
Tradition Partners with NYSE Euronext’s Prime Source for End of Day Pricing
Tradition, an interdealer broker, has formed a partnership with Prime Source, whereby Tradition will provide end of day pricing of a range of financial products to Prime Source, a NYSE Euronext company. The Prime Source service allows users to access prices and evaluations from different sources, including markets, dealer contributions and valuation models designed to...
Large French Bank Opts for Pricing Partner’s Price-it Online
A large French bank has selected Pricing Partner’s online platform Price-it online to double value its interest rate, equity, credit and inflation derivative products. This bank, which wished to remain anonymous, decided to innovate in terms of transparency and proximity with its clients by offering access to an independent valuation on its OTC derivative products....
Prytania Investment Advisors Appoints CMA DataVision for CDS Pricing
Prytania Investment Advisors (PIA), a London-based asset manager and risk advisory firm, has appointed CMA to provide independent pricing, risk metrics and group curves via DataVision for single name credit default swaps (CDS) and indices. Mark Hale, chief investment officer at PIA, says: “We looked at a number of pricing vendors to support activities in...