Markit Launches Daily CDS of ABS Spread Service…
Markit has launched a daily consensus spread service for CDS of ABS. CDS of ABS, also known as ABCDS, are credit default swaps referencing asset-backed securities. Markit’s CDS of ABS spread service receives daily feeds from market makers’ books of record. Spreads are cleaned and validated overnight before publication the following morning. Clients of the...
Interactive Data Leverages Pricing, Reference Data for MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corp is leveraging the assets of its Pricing and Reference Data unit, as well as those of its Real-Time Services group, to offer a range of services aimed at helping clients meet their obligations under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Interactive Data believes its real-time and reference data services units...
CMA Rolls Out Full Term Structures for CMA DataVision
CMA has enhanced CMA DataVision, its same-day consensus-based price verification data service for CDS, indices and tranches. Working with several clients and a team of industry experts, CMA says it has developed a multi-step modelling process to enable it to derive price points and generate a full-term structure with a high degree of accuracy. Using...
Telekurs Financial Unveils New Fair Value Service for Illiquid Bonds
Telekurs Financial has launched a new Fair Value Service for valuing illiquid bonds. The engine-driven evaluation service complements the evaluated pricing data Telekurs Financial takes in from partners such as Mergent, FRI, Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor’s, and has been developed by the vendor to meet a perceived growing demand for illiquid bond pricing....
S&P, ICAP Ally to Add Trade Data to Evaluated Prices
Standard & Poor’s has teamed with interdealer broker ICAP to offer ICAP’s pricing data on a range of instruments via MasterFeed, its consolidated securities reference data and end-of-day pricing feed service. This will enable the data vendor to provide its clients with both trade data and evaluated prices via a single feed, says JR Rieger,...
NAB Custodian Services Selects Markit Complex Derivatives Valuations…
NAB Custodian Services (NCS), a securities services provider in Australia, has appointed Markit provider of complex OTC derivatives valuations. Markit will provide NCS with an independent, post-trade calculation of the gross asset value of a portfolio of complex OTC derivative trades. Valuations will be provided on a daily basis for vanilla and exotic instruments, and...
Delta Lloyd Selects CMA For Price Verification
Delta Lloyd Asset Management, a Dutch fund manager, has selected CMA’s price verification data service, CMA DataVision. Arnold Gast, head of credit for Delta Lloyd Asset Management, says: “We selected CMA DataVision because it provides a timely, comprehensive, true market view. We also like CMA’s buy side aggregation model focus on gathering average pricing views...
… While Quantifi Extends Asset-Backed Securities Valuations
Quantifi Solutions has extended the functionality of its credit derivatives valuation software to include the ability to price correlation products on asset-backed securities (ABS) such as tranches on the ABX index (TABX). Quantifi’s new tools for valuing TABX and tranches on baskets of ABCDS build upon existing modelling tools for synthetic CDOs on corporate credits...
Interactive Data Increases Coverage of Euro ABS/MBS…
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has added new capabilities which will increase coverage of its evaluations for European asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to approximately 3000 tranches. Interactive Data’s new models for providing evaluations will enhance European coverage of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as a whole range of other...
Quintillion Chooses Markit for OTC Derivatives Valuations
Dublin-based fund administrator Quintillion, founded in 2006, has partnered with Markit for OTC derivatives valuation provision. Quintillion runs its fund administration business on front and middle office technology from Paladyne and the Advent Geneva accounting system. Tim Barker, executive vice president and head of valuations at Markit, says this relationship will broaden the vendor’s reach...