Pricing & Valuation
RVS Incorporates OTC "Trade Evidence" into Rates Pricing
Benchmark rate pricing software vendor Rate Validation Services has launched a "trade-evidenced data service," dubbed Creator, which provides clients with consensus contributions, adjusted using actual executed trade data.
Interactive Data Gets Gartland for Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has hired industry veteran Bill Gartland as senior director of the vendor's new Continuous Evaluations service, which will provide continuously-updating prices for fixed income securities.
FXStreet Adds Real-Time Spreads to Broker Tables
Foreign exchange news, commentary and data provider FXStreet has added real-time spreads data to its Brokers Comparative Table service, which enables investors to compare the offerings of different brokers.
Vulpes Uses Markit to Consolidate Valuation, Risk Infrastructure
Vulpes Investment Management is using Markit's Portfolio Valuations service to reduce the number of vendors it relies on for valuations, risk and scenario analysis from five to two
Pricing special report
June 2014 -- sponsored by AIM Software and Thomson Reuters
Curo Taps Milestone for Old Mutual Multi-Managers' Enhanced Administration
Curo Fund Services, a South African administrator based just west of Cape Town in Bellville, has implemented Milestone's pControl to manage Old Mutual Multi-Managers and others clients' pricing and processing of complex investment structures.
TPI Unveils Aggregated SDR Feed
Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, has rolled out an aggregated feed of interest rate swap data from swap data repositories, in a move to increase pre- and post-trade transparency in accordance with the Dodd…
Brazil’s Anbima Preps Vendor Reference Price Feed
Brazilian self-regulatory authority Anbima, an industry association that governs member trading and investment firms, is preparing to create a datafeed of fixed income price data from Brazilian market participants that will target vendors and…
Markit Creates Real-time Trade Feed for Portfolio Valuations
A new real-time trade feed from MarkitSERV to Portfolio Valuations means trades executed immediately before snap times can now be reflected in the valuations produced by Markit
Markit Plugs Real-Time Data into Valuations Service
Markit has integrated real-time trade data from its MarkitServ electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter derivatives with its Portfolio Valuations valuation service that provides independent mark-to-market valuations and risk analytics for…
1010data Gets Euro ABS, MBS Deals Data
Big Data analytics provider 1010data has added pool and loan-level European asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities to its database, via a partnership with European DataWarehouse, the European central repository for loan-level ABS data.
Transparent Pricing for Accounting Disclosures, Due Diligence, Price Challenges -- Webcast
On June 4, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about delivering transparent pricing, during which four industry experts discussed due diligence requirements, the impact of accounting standards and the daily price challenge process
Markit Debuts 'Enhanced' iNAV Service
Markit has launched an intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange-traded products that combines securities pricing data from global exchanges with the vendor's proprietary fixed income evaluated prices, which it calculates for more than 2.3…
Empirasign Bows MyData Excel Integration Web Service
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of fixed income dealer offerings and trade color, has rolled out Empirasign MyData, which allows users to upload a list of bond tickers to Empirasign's website and have the vendor return updated prices for…
IDC Adds Asia Bonds to Evaluation Service
Interactive Data has expanded its New York Close International Fixed Income Evaluation Services to include coverage of sovereign and corporate bonds issued in the Asia‐Pacific region, after adding NY Close European, Middle‐Eastern, and African (EMEA)…
Broker OTCGH, Updata Ally for OTC Data
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has signed a deal with over-the-counter (OTC) energy and commodities broker consortium OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) to make real-time data, historical pricing curves and OTC options prices available on…
S&P Cap IQ Adds Numerix Pricing Models
S&P Capital IQ has incorporated pricing models from derivatives analytics, valuation and risk management software vendor Numerix into its Portfolio Risk solution, building on an existing multi-year agreement between Numerix and R2 Financial Technologies,…
Numerix, S&P Cap IQ Ink Pricing Partnership
S&P Capital IQ and Numerix have announced a multi-year partnership that will see the former's pricing models integrated within the latter's Portfolio Risk platform.
SmartTrade Technologies, FXSpotStream Ally for 4XBox
FXSpotStream, a consortium-owned multi-bank foreign exchange price aggregation service, has partnered with trading systems provider SmartTrade Technologies to launch 4XBox, a joint offering that combines SmartTrade's smart order routing, order and risk…
FXSpotStream and SmartTrade Team Up on Pricing Tool
FXSpotStream, a multibank foreign exchange (FX) price aggregation service, and smartTrade Technologies, a provider of liquidity management solutions, have together launched 4X|Box, a tool that enables access, via an aggregated stream, to FXSpotStream's…
Fincad Bows F3 Valuation, Analytics Platform
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad has rolled out its F3 platform for enterprise valuation and risk analytics, which provides views of risk, margin and collateral requirements across an enterprise,…
Citi Rolls out Pricing Tool on Bloomberg App Portal
Citigroup has made a new electronic block pricing tool available on Bloomberg's App Portal, to allow traders to request bespoke prices for block orders as part of their workflow on the Bloomberg Professional service.
SuperDerivatives Adds Icap G7 Data to DGX Store
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is adding real-time market data from interdealer broker Icap to the third-party app store on its DGX market data terminal, to provide customers with an overview of rates from…
Consultancy D-fine Deploys SuperDerivatives DGX Terminals
German quantitative and technical consulting firm D-fine is rolling out data, pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' DGX data and news terminal to its consultants, freeing them from inflexible fee schedules offered by other…