Standard & Poor’s Expands Valuations Via Exclusive Arrangement with CSV
Hot on the heels of its new evaluated pricing service for the European structured finance marketplace, Standard & Poor’s has struck an exclusive alliance with New York-based Complex Security Valuations Inc. (CSV) to provide valuations for complex, illiquid and hard-to-value securities. The deal will expand both companies’ offerings in the space, and establish a combined...
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations...
Thomson Financial’s Datafeed Now Available via ValueLink
Thomson Financial has signed an agreement with ValueLink to provide its Datafeed solutions as a primary source via ValueLink’s validated data service in Europe. As a result, ValueLink’s clients will now be able to commingle Thomson’s financial content with their own proprietary content and that of other third-party sources of data, which are integrated in...
FT Interactive Data Adds Markit’s Swaps, CMS BondEdge’s Analytics
The strategic relationship between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data unit and credit data specialist Markit has borne its first fruits. As expected (Reference Data Review, January 2006), FT Interactive Data has released a valuations service for credit default swaps that draws on Markit’s access to around 50 CDS dealers in the marketplace. The launch...
Telekurs Financial Launches Pricing Service for French Market
Telekurs (France) SAS has launched a new pricing service, French Fiscal Prices – in French, Impôt de Solidarité sur le Fortune (ISF) – aimed at helping banks produce an accurate valuation of their customers’ holdings prior to declaration to the tax authorities. The ISF pricing service consists of a file of data for more than...
ValueLink and Reuters Extend Relationship
ValueLink Information Services and Reuters have extended their relationship by increasing the amount of Reuters data carried by ValueLink as well as increasing Reuters’ status to a key provider. ValueLink provides financial data collection, consolidation and cleansing, and offers tailored solutions, which can be delivered in the format the customer desires. Reuters first forged its...
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and...
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and...
Markit Launches Valuations Service for Inflation Derivatives
Mark-to-market pricing and asset valuations group Markit has launched a valuations service for inflation derivatives covering UK, US, French and European zero coupon swaps. The service, part of Markit’s Totem Service aimed at sell-side risk managers and product controllers, provides independent verification of mark-to-market prices for UK RPI (Retail Price Index), U.S. CPI (Consumer Price...
Markit RED Available to Murex Clients
Mutual customers of Murex and Markit Group Limited (Markit) can now access Markit credit pricing and reference entity data (RED) through Murex’s credit derivatives trading and risk management platform. The strategic relationship between the two companies will give joint customers online access to benchmark credit default swap (CDS) and bond pricing as well as reference...