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OliveTree Taps Markit for SecLending Data
London-based analytics provider OliveTree Financial Group has integrated securities lending data from data provider Markit into its OTAS (OliveTree Trading Analysis System) analytics platform, which captures data on different asset classes and factors to…
Markit Targets APAC Growth as Top Execs Move to Singapore
Kevin Gould and Brad Hunt have been sent to Singapore to help the data vendor capitalize on opportunities that are being created across the Asia-Pacific region as a result of regulatory change
Burton-Taylor: Mixed EMEA Data Spend Growth as Bloomberg Closes Gap on Thomson Reuters
Total spend on market data in EMEA reached $9.84 billion (€7.48 billion) in 2012, approximately 38.6 percent of global spend, with the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia accounting for two-thirds of demand, according to a new report on EMEA…
Markit’s Gould and Hunt Relocate to Asia-Pac
Markit president and co-founder Kevin Gould has relocated to Singapore to spearhead Markit's expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, the vendor announced today.
Markit Adds FT News to Hub
Markit has added news and analysis from UK daily finance publication the Financial Times to its Markit Hub market data platform, which aggregates research, strategy and news content from leading global banks, independent data providers and news agencies.
Piece by Piece, Bank Loans See Upgraded Settlement Automation
Making inroads into automated settlement for bank—or syndicated—loans trading has proven difficult for technology providers, with bespoke contractual terms and complex documentation often at issue. Still, there are gains to be made.
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Corporate Actions Solution — Markit Corporate Actions
It took a year for Markit’s strategic acquisition of Cadis to pay off in terms of yielding success in the Waters Rankings. But the London-based vendor’s corporate actions recognition was far more immediate, coming just over a month after its purchase of…
DTCC To Integrate Services From Full Ownership Of Omgeo
Post-trade processing services provider DTCC says buying out Thomson Reuters' half ownership stake in Omgeo will promote DTCC's expansion, through Omgeo's 6,500 clients and 80 technology partners in 52 countries
Markit Readies Front-Office Upgrade for OTC Charges
Markit has announced new calculations in its front-office analytics suite, designed to help customers cope with a range of complex regulatory calculations from a single application.
Markit Evaluates Corporate Actions Service Acquisition
The data services provider will be asking users of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service, just acquired from DTCC, what new data sets and coverage should be added
S&P Capital IQ Launches Data Cross-Reference
The Business Entity Cross Reference Service, already live in production, covers more than two million entities, and is available through the S&P Capital IQ Xpressfeed platform
Putting a Value on Collateral
With the European Market Infrastructure Regulation set to impose margining requirements on parties to over-the-counter derivatives trades, firms are examining their own policies for valuing their collateral, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Quartet FS Partnership Helps Markit Aggregate Analytics in Real time
An in-memory analytical database has been integrated into the Markit Analytics platform to enable the front office to aggregate its calculations on a real-time basis
