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Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps to Meet Growing Demand
Fitch Solutions last month launched a new pricing service for asset-backed credit default swaps (ABCDSs). The new services is aimed at meeting what Fitch sees as growing demand for independent pricing that covers the ABS product spectrum. As such, the company is pitching the new service as complementary to its existing single-name credit-default swap and…
Disparate Markets and Complex Trading Call for Smarter Exceptions Management – Contributed by Coexis
Disparate markets and complex trading call for smarter exceptions management, argues Donal O’Brien, business development director of Coexis. If Societe Generale’s reference data systems had been a bit wiser to the activities of its users, could the actions of Jerome Kerviel and the French bank’s subsequent £3.7bn loss have been avoided? The need for increasingly…
Fitch Solutions Launches ABCDS Pricing
In order to meet the growing demand for an independent source of pricing data that covers the global ABS product spectrum, Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch ABCDS Pricing to complement its existing single name CDS and Loan CDS services. Fitch ABCDS Pricing includes coverage of over 7,500 ABCDS combining consensus pricing for liquid issues with benchmarking…
Benelux’s Petercam Goes Live with KEYdata from Sterci for Centralised Data Management
Switzerland-headquartered STP software vendor Sterci says Benelux-based private banking and asset management institution Petercam has been using its KEYdata solution for reference data management since January 2008. Sterci is known less as a reference data specialist than as a provider of trade process automation solutions – though it also boasts Euroclear Bank as a KEYdata…
GoldenSource Adds Raft of New Connections to Support Risk Management, Ease EDM Implementation
Enterprise data management system supplier GoldenSource has introduced a series of connections to sources of high risk/high value data in areas such as derivatives, risk, pricing, corporate actions and counterparty data, with the addition of the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Cusip Master File database, Markit RED, RIMES Fixed Income Benchmarks data platform, Bloomberg Extended BackOffice,…
Paladyne Systems Wins Symphony Reference Data Repository Deal
Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, has licensed its Paladyne product suite to Symphony Asset Management, an investment advisor to a number of institutional accounts. Symphony will implement Paladyne Security Master as its centralised repository for global security terms and conditions including all listed and OTC security types as well as…
Markit Teams with Six Dealers on Valuations Platform To Improve “Cumbersome” Aggregation, Distribution
The latest in a flurry of initiatives bidding to improve the valuations process in the wake of the sub-prime crisis and the credit crunch comes from UK market data vendor Markit Group which in a now-familiar modus operandi is working with six Wall Street banks to launch a global, multi-bank, cross-asset client valuations platform. The…
CME Credit Market Analysis Buy Gives Exchange Greater OTC Exposure, CMA New Sales Channel
The acquisition of credit derivatives data specialist Credit Market Analysis (CMA) by derivatives exchange CME Group is positioned as enabling CME to grow its activities in the OTC credit derivatives market, and as generating opportunities to combine the CMA data services with CME’s trade execution and clearing capabilities to create new offerings for the marketplace…
… And Adds Time Series to Valordata Feed
Telekurs Financial is introducing VDF Time Series as part of the Valordata Feed (VDF) data offering. Up until now, only daily valuation prices for various price types have been supplied through Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed. With the new VDF Time Series service, however, complete time series will now be included in VDF. With the time…
Life’s not fair…
Well it had to happen eventually: the whinging by some of the financial institutions making significant write-downs that it’s the accounting standards that are to blame, not any shortcoming on their part in allowing themselves to become dangerously over-exposed to instruments they didn’t properly understand. Accusations that “fair value” accounting standards are making the credit…