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ABG Taps Markit for Transaction-Cost Analysis
Swedish brokerage selects pre- and post-trade TCA services.
March 2015: A Necessary Evil
SS&C Technologies' recent acquisition of Advent Software has the industry scratching its head.
Transaction-Cost Analysis' Fixed-Income Evolution
TCA is moving from equities into fixed-income towards becoming a real-time analysis tool.
Doscas Joins Markit
Data services company hires veteran of Citi and several major firms
FactSet Adds Markit Global ETF Data to Workstation in Buy-Side Push
FactSet Research Systems has integrated data on more than 5,000 global exchange-traded funds from data vendor Markit into its workstation, to provide clients—particularly buy-side firms—with fund-level and constituent-level data on ETFs to inform their…
Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
2014 Review: Infrastructure Deals Drive M&A, Funding Activity in 2014
This year saw its fair share of mergers, acquisitions and investments, with some deals driven by expansion plans, others by strategic opportunism, and others spurred by unforeseen circumstances.
2014 Review: Vendors, Venues Diversify Services to Meet Demand
Data vendors and exchanges sought to broaden their reach and diversify their offerings through new content and partnerships in 2014, while retiring legacy products and setting new market data policies.
2014 Review: Data Industry Sends a Message on Chat Platforms
Only a year ago, data vendor Markit had just unveiled its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network, directory and set of collaboration tools designed to allow firms to share information with each other across different communications…
2014 Review: Industry Finds Ways to Derive Value from the Crowd
New datasets created using crowd-sourcing continued to grow in 2014, with new players entering the market with propositions to solicit crowd-sourced investor predictions that could provide leading indicators of market movements to institutional traders.
Markit Tackles Derivatives Paperwork with Thunderhead
Markit has announced a partnership with Thunderhead.com, which will see the latter's One platform integrated with the former's Counterparty Manager for the purposes of electronically managing master confirmation agreements (MCAs).
Markit to Exit Messaging Play as Symphony Conducts Acquisition of Chat Assets
Acquisition will unite rival messaging initiatives to create a stronger competitor to Bloomberg's messaging service
Symphony's First Movement: Symphony Acquires Markit's Collaboration Services
Consortium hopes to release the fully-integrated platform in July 2015
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Nosheen Amir-Ebrahimi, Markit
Nosheen Amir-Ebrahimi, director of portfolio valuations at Markit, speaks with Timothy Murray at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Markit
When it comes to pricing exotic, illiquid, or hard-to-value instruments, few organizations manage it better than Markit, as illustrated by its win in the best pricing/valuation category in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. James Rundle spoke with…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuation Service—Markit
It might not be a complete sweep, but Markit’s success in the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ best pricing/valuation service category is about as close as one can get. For the fifth straight year and for the seventh time in eight years, Markit’s Pricing and…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit
How does one stay on top of their game? Markit EDM might be best suited to answer that question, although Rimes Technologies might also have some advice on that topic, given that both firms remain undefeated in their respective categories since the…
KYCEO: Markit Genpact Taps May for Head Role
Ex-Goldman executive to join as registrants top 600.
Markit Corporate Actions Expands
Service Adds Users, Securities
Tora Adds Markit TCA to Compass
Technology vendor Tora has announced that Markit transaction-cost analysis (TCA) tools will be integrated with its execution and order management system, Compass.
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Iress Adds Markit TCA
Systems provider Iress has announced the integration of Markit's transaction-cost analysis (TCA) offering within its order-system suite.
Markit, Hang Seng Indexes Roll Out Offshore RMB Bond Index
Markit and Hong Kong's index provider Hang Seng Indexes have launched a bond index series that track the performance of offshore renminbi-denominated sovereign and corporate debt, in response to increased demand from regional and international investors…