SIX Financial Information Puts Defensibility at Core of Evaluated Pricing Service
SIX Financial Information has put defensibility at the heart of its next-generation Evaluated Pricing Service (EPS), which will replace existing pricing products covering complex securities pricing and fair value pricing. Migration to the new service started this week and is expected to be complete by the end of October with most existing customers simply switching...
Markit Combines CVA and Capital Solutions Ahead of Basel III
Markit has combined its credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and regulatory capital solutions on one platform with a view to helping banks reduce the costs and overheads of meeting Basel III capital requirements. The Markit Analytics CVA & Capital platform integrates the management of CVA and internal model capital, allowing users to meet Basel III regulatory...
S&P Capital IQ Details Plans for Evaluated Pricing Post CMA Acquisition
S&P Capital IQ’s acquisition of Credit Market Analysis (CMA) from CME Group last week is bearing fruit, with some CMA technologies already integrated and used in S&P Capital IQ offerings such as its evaluated pricing service. As other services and technologies are integrated, CMA as a whole is expected to slot in alongside earlier acquisitions...
Eikon Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ as Thomson Reuters Halts New-Client Sales of 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has halted sales of its 3000 Xtra premium desktop service to new clients, in a move seen as a vote of confidence in successor desktop product Eikon. As of July 31, Thomson Reuters’ sales teams will offer new clients Eikon as the sole choice of premium desktop, although existing 3000 Xtra clients will...
Stop Press: S&P Capital IQ Swoops on CMA for European Valuations Data
S&P Capital IQ has struck again, continuing its buying spree with the purchase of London-based Credit Market Analysis Ltd., the valuations data subsidiary of CME Group. The acquisition plugs a gap in S&P Capital IQ’s valuations coverage, which will now include CMA’s speciality areas of structured finance and over-the-counter derivatives pricing. S&P Capital IQ’s traditional...
Dion Integrates Numerix CrossAsset Analytics to Deliver Hosted OTC Pricing Service
Dion Global Solutions has partnered Numerix to move into OTC pricing, valuation and risk management with a hosted solution called dfferentia. The solution is the technology company’s first to be built from the ground up as a hosted solution and supports real-time pricing of foreign exchange and fixed income instruments with the promise of more...
Interactive Data Adds CDS to Valuation Service and Promises Speedy Delivery
Interactive Data has added credit default swaps (CDS) and two CDS indices to its independent OTC derivatives valuation service, increasing transparency around the evaluation of these asset classes and helping users to improve risk management and regulatory compliance through a better understanding of CDS valuations. The company is also working towards intra-day and ultimately near...
Interactive Data Readies for Fallout from European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Interactive Data is seeking to reassure users of its evaluated pricing and reference data services that they will not be affected by any fallout from the European sovereign debt crisis. The big data provider has outlined its plans for responding to a Greek exit from the euro and other scenarios in a letter to customers....
Interactive Data Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing to Decrease Risk
Interactive Data has upgraded its Vantage web application for evaluated pricing transparency to Version 2.0. The upgrade offers a significant expansion of instrument coverage, from 125,000 securities in Version 1.0 to 2.8 million in Version 2.0, and improved compliance and risk management through greater transparency of the firm’s evaluated pricing in the fixed income market.
Pricing Partners Meets Demand for Valuation of Proprietary Indexes
Pricing Partners is meeting growing interest in unstructured products with valuation services for proprietary indexes created by banks to support investment in risky and non-risky assets, while making trading rules transparent to investors. The company’s valuation services for proprietary indexes went live last month and it is already working with a handful of Tier 1...