Ratings
Investors Turn to Raw Data Over Ratings in ESG Alpha Hunt
Quants are using data on product returns and employee welfare to pick winners.
ESG Disclosures Will be a Data Sourcing Headache for the Buy Side
The draft technical standards for the EU's updated disclosures regulation will impact most market participants, analysts say.
Four Asset Managers Explain How They Incorporate ESG Data
Execs From UBS AM, Lazard AM, DWS, and East Capital look at incorporating ESG data into their investment practices for more holistic views of risk and opportunity.
Bloomberg: Regulation Driving Demand for ESG Activities Data
Ratings providers must update their products, as a raft of new regulation drives transparency in the sustainable investing sector.
IHS Markit Considers Adding Corporate Bonds to iBoxx ChinaBond Indices
A lack of liquidity and the ability to accurately measure credit risk will be the biggest hurdles to overcome.
Tackling China’s Onshore Bond Market
An on-the-ground look at China's growing bond market and the challenges that remain for foreign investors.
Credit Benchmark Taps Ex-Goldman Sachs CRO to Lead Advisory Board
The Goldman Sachs risk veteran will assemble an advisory board of experts who understand risk and data to guide the vendor's strategy.
Fitch Names Filanowski President of Solutions Arm
Filanowski has spent almost 25 years in management and product management roles at all the major data vendors.
TP Icap and Credit Benchmark Partner for Credit Proxy Solution
Collaboration will combine market pricing with Credit Benchmark ratings, while Credit Benchmark will receive Tullet Prebon market data for risk research.
Credit Benchmark Adds Ex-Goldman Vice Chair to Board
The appointment follows a funding round that also involved Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Communitas Capital, in addition to individual investors like Sherwood.
Credit Benchmark Grows Bank Contributors, Eyes Non-Bank Credit Data
The vendor plans to collect and create consensus rating datasets from other types of companies besides banks.
Credit Benchmark Taps Pastoressa for Product, Technology
Like many of his Credit Benchmark colleagues, Pastoressa spent much of his career at Thomson Financial and Thomson Reuters.
Taking Research to the Next Level
IMD/IRD Awards 2018 Winners' Circle
March 2018: Regulatory Watchdogs Show Their Teeth
After some questioned ESMA's resolve, the regulator is stepping up its enforcement efforts. Max reviews how ESMA wants market participants to know that its bite can be worse than its bark.
Esma Wades In: Regulator Targets Rating Agency Fees
Data consumers have long-bemoaned the fees charged by rating agencies, citing prices and a lack of transparency around how fees are set as key concerns. With no response from the agencies to user groups, Esma is now weighing in on the subject. Pauline…
Esma Warns Credit Rating Agencies Over Fees
Report says credit rating agencies are not providing enough clarity on the fees they charge.
Citi Pays $11.5M in Finra Fines and Compensation for Ratings Failings
Finra says Citi's inaccurate ratings led to numerous porblems for portfolio manager clients and retail investors.
Credit Benchmark’s Smith Taps Former Thomson Colleague Haney to Replace Him as CEO
Haney previously worked alongside Credit Benchmark co-founder Donal Smith at Thomson Financial.
ESG: Turning Green into Green
ESG is booming, but there's room for further development—Waters speaks to executives from banks, hedge funds, asset managers and vendors to explain how this sector is growing and how AI can speed up its development.
Morningstar Takes Stake in Fund Rating Partner Sustainalytics
The ownership stake will support the continued joint development of sustainable investment products and related tools.
Bats Europe Expands Index Business
Bats Europe launches 18 benchmarks spanning European regional, single country and sector indexes.
ESMA Fines Moody’s €1.24M for Credit Ratings Breaches
ESMA says that between June 2011 and December 2013 Moody’s failed to explain decisions for 19 ratings.
SS&C Adds Fitch Ratings to Managed Service Platform
With the addition of Fitch, SS&C now offers ratings data from the 'Big Three' ratings providers.
Overbond Adds DBRS Ratings, Research to Bond Issuance Platform
Bond issuers and investors will now beable to access DBRS ratings and research within the Overbond platform.