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Ex-Bloomberg Manager Haddock Joins Annaly Capital Management as Op Risk Exec
Ex-Bloomberg manager Joseph Haddock has departed the data vendor after 13 years to join Annaly Capital Management. Haddock, who was previously in charge of data services including corporate actions at the data giant, is now executive vice president of operational risk at the New York-based buy side firm. Haddock spent just over 13 years at…
MiFID II Proposals: Perspective from MarketAxess
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other fixed income securities, reiterates its views on the range of proposals outlined in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which is scheduled to be finalized in October. MarketAxess believes that:…
CMA’s Moody Talks up Recent Launch of its OTC Derivatives Valuations Solution CMA NAVigate 1.6
CME Group owned data business CMA has recently launched a new OTC derivatives workflow solution that is aimed at streamlining the mark to market process and granting access to all valuation inputs for reporting purposes. Reference Data Review speaks to Gareth Moody, vice president of sales for the Americas, who joined the vendor as a start up…
Virginie’s Blog – Things Keeping the Industry Awake at Night (About the LEI)
Standards are tricky beasts, they may be developed for one purpose and misused, and they are also often appropriated for purposes for which they were not initially intended. So choosing the right standard for something as important as legal entity identification (LEI) is obviously not a decision to be taken lightly and it is one…
Performance Benchmarking 2011: Valuations in North American Buy-Side Institutions
Bloomberg swept the board in A-Team Group’s Performance Benchmarking survey of North American valuations services for the buy side. The report – sponsored by SIX Telekurs and Standard & Poor’s and available for free download below – surveyed buy-side managers on key trends, budgets and experiences with vendor services.Bloomberg’s valuations services were ranked No. 1 in the…
S&P VRS Adds New Credit Risk Model to Credit Health Panel
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies today announced the availability of a new credit risk model that provides relative credit assessments for rated and unrated public companies, incorporating enhanced operational, solvency and liquidity measures. This new model achieves improved ranking accuracy and enhanced overall performance through methodology enhancements. The enhanced model is available for use within…
Virginie’s Blog – Index Data Under the Microscope
It seems that all aspects of the data underlying decision making within the financial services community are under the microscope at the moment and last week’s FISD issue brief highlighted that index and benchmark data is no exception. Panellists including representatives from the whole range of participants in the index and benchmark community noted that…
EDI and the Commodities Research Bureau Team up to Deliver the Best Quality Commodity Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI), a well established provider of Securities Corporate Actions and Reference Data, today announced a new commodity pricing service in collaboration with the Commodities Research Bureau (CRB), the world’s leading commodity and futures research, data and analysis firm since 1934. With this partnership, EDI is now able to offer its clients comprehensive…
Fitch Solutions Launches Global CDS Indices
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has today launched a new family of global CDS indices – including 15 regional sovereign indices, over 40 industry level corporate indices and a further 70 sub-sector corporate indices – which are designed to provide portfolio and risk managers with a comprehensive insight into the direction of…
Interactive Data Adds Ex-Omgeo and GoldenSource Exec McCormick to Ref Data Team
In line with its ongoing restructuring under the watchful eye of its private equity owners, Interactive Data has hired ex-Omgeo and GoldenSource exec Fritz McCormick to act as a senior product director for its Pricing and Reference Data segment. McCormick joins from Aite Group where he was a senior analyst with a focus on enterprise…