Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that its Markit CDX North America Investment Grade and Markit CDX Emerging Markets indices will roll into their next series on September 20 2011. Final membership lists are available here.
The Markit CDX NA HY will roll on September 27 2011. A final membership list will be posted here on September 27 2011.
Index levels and rules are available here.
Fitness and proprietary requirements for employees of financial institutions are not an option, but a regulatory obligation that calls on employers to regularly assess employees’ honesty, integrity and reputation, competence and capability, and financial soundness. In the UK, these requirements are a core element of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). They are also...
Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The highly specialised realm of high frequency trading without doubt is a great driver for a range of high performance technologies that are becoming essential tools for Wall Street. More so than the now somewhat pedestrian algorithmic trading and analytics/pricing applications that are usually cited as the reason that HPC is hitting the financial markets,...