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The Onboarding Conundrum
Client onboarding is often a cumbersome process, but market practitioners believe it could be streamlined if firms enable their customers to upload and maintain their own data. The catch, Nicholas Hamilton finds, is that strict controls could be needed…
Lacrosse Derives Benefit From Outside Pricing Services
The fund services company implemented Markit services and Bloomberg's BVAL, and now offers its clients more authoritative data as a result.
ISDA and Markit Begin Onboarding for Compliance Tool
ISDA Amend allows swap market participants to amend ISDA Master Agreements and bilaterally exchange information necessary to comply with rules applicable to over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions.
Enterprising Strategies
Data vendors are showing increasing interest in enterprise data management, but insist they will not bundle products. Nicholas Hamilton finds there are many potential benefits to be had
Markit Bows Dataset of Companies' Patent Value
New data will help traders, analysts and asset managers assess companies' value based on worth of their IP portfolio
Markit Adds Instruments, Currencies to OIS Pricing
Data vendor adds new functionalities to Portfolio Valuations service.
Markit Expands Options for Client OIS Discount Pricing
Vendor allows clients to choose pricing methodology and underlying currency for more accurate pricing
Markit Introduces CVA and Capital Solution
The platform will help firms achieve Basel III compliance by calculating credit valuation adjustment and capital charges.
IndexUniverse ETF Analytics Enters Beta
ETF analysis tool will help advisors pick suitable ETFs to meet client mandates
The Impact of Big Data on Your Data Management Webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts to discuss how big data affects the data management market in a webcast on 12 July
RVS Grows London Presence with Sykes Hire
Benchmark data provider hires ex-Markit Totem director Alistair Sykes
Vendor Relationships: What Lies Beneath
Consensus among buy-side firms is that there can sometimes be a world of difference between expectations and reality when dealing with a vendor. Steve Dew-Jones canvasses opinion on the most important considerations before awarding a technology or…
For Bank Loans, STP Initiative Promises New Frontier
Syndicated, or bank, loan trading stands to become more attractive for the buy side as Markit and agency banks collaborate on faster settlement and real-time views of inventory.
Markit To Broaden Cross-Asset-Class Coverage
The data vendor plans to include coverage of corporate bond, equities and terms and conditions data
Markit Rebrands Cadis
With its acquisition of Cadis complete, Markit has rebranded Cadis as Markit Enterprise Data Management.
AllianceBernstein Tames the Onboarding Beast
AllianceBernstein was struggling with its manually intensive onboarding process. It turned to Markit to answer the challenge. The result: Markit Document Exchange, which, as Anthony Malakian discovers, has proven to be something of a rarity in the…
FactSet Adds Markit Bank Loan Data
FactSet adds coverage of bank loans with data from Markit to its Fixed Income Portfolio Analysis service.