U.K.-based Mark-It Partners, a provider of credit pricing information, plans to acquire LoanX, a U.S. supplier of syndicated loan data. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mark-It says it plans to integrate LoanX’s data offerings with its own to create a multi-asset offering, including market valuations on corporate bonds, credit default swaps and syndicated bank loans.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
Blackstone’s launch of a business unit dedicated to the creation of products that give US pension funds access to private markets has raised the data challenge for many established investment managers. Blackstone is seeking to win pension trustees over to an investment space they had traditionally been wary of or have been restricted from entering...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
FRTB is one of the most sweeping and transformative pieces of regulation to hit the financial markets in the last two decades. With the deadline confirmed as January 2022, this Special Report provides a detailed insight into exactly what the data requirements are for FRTB in its latest (and final) incarnation, and explores what needs to be done in order to meet these needs on a cost-effective and company-wide basis.
