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Markit Eyes Federated Chat Integration Capabilities
Markit is building out the integration services component of its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network for financial professionals to communicate and share information across any messaging platform.
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.
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
Opening Cross: Make the Right Entrance and You Won’t Need a Graceful Exit
The ability to make a graceful exit is a talent I don’t have: ask anyone who’s participated in a fire drill with me. Nor, it seems, does the annual SIFMA technology exhibition, which straggles doggedly on this week, despite a much smaller exhibitor list…
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…
S&P Cap IQ Joins Markit Collaboration Services Network
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has become the latest vendor to join Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
Opening Cross: Data Can Fix Problems, Not Just Fixings
With the Libor-rigging scandal still fresh in our memories, pay gaps widening, and the current furor raging over the merits and fairness of high-frequency trading, it’s no surprise that the capital markets have something of a perception problem among the…
Markit to Increase Focus on Tax Services with CTI Acquisition
Markit's Michelle Trogni says the acquisition of the tax compliance software and services vendor will help her company to make tax "one of the cornerstones of the types of managed services that we offer"
Markit Nabs Compliance-Solutions Provider CTI
Markit announced that it is acquiring software provider Compliance Technologies International (CTI) in order to strengthen its compliance and risk suite of products.
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…
IRD Awards Include Big Wins For Fenergo, Interactive Data
Fenergo and Interactive Data score big in the Inside Reference Data Awards, as Thomson Reuters recaptures one prize, and Markit is honored for humanitarian work
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
Markit, Genpact Unveil KYC Services
The joint services include a standardized approach for client onboarding and KYC data management that are intended to help users reduce complexity and cost
Markit to Seek Listing on Nasdaq
Information and systems vendor Markit will pursue a listing for its planned initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq, the exchange group has confirmed.
Markit Launches Loan Covenant Interface
The Markit Loan Covenant Library is intended to support better analysis of loan covenant data, and is expected to grow to cover 6,000 covenants by the third quarter of the year.
Kilburn's Corner: The Devil's in the Detail
Every three months at Inside Market Data, we report on the quarterly financial results of the world's stock exchanges. This time round, I had the not-so-enviable task of wading through the marketing spiel in the announcements to dig out the only piece of…
Asset Class Data Raises Identifier Demand
Greater interest in asset classification data is fueling more demand for identification codes to manage it, exposing strains due to silos and multiple identifier choices, a data services provider's reference data executive says
Markit IPO Expected to Create Greater Competition, Innovation
Industry observers say the data services provider's decision to file for an initial public offering will increase competition and may lead to further acquisitions by the company
Update: Markit IPO to Raise ‘War Chest' for Competitive Boost
UK-based data vendor Markit filed plans for a US initial public offering with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, May 5, in a move that industry observers say will allow the vendor to raise funds to compete more aggressively…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year — Markit
The technology provider of the year is traditionally the final category of both the Sell-Side Technology Awards and the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and is the second of only two awards announced at the dinner, decided by the Waters journalists. All of…
Markit Files for US IPO
Markit has filed plans for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, intended to raise $750 million.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) — Markit
At first blush, it might seem strange that a vendor as ubiquitous as Markit would come away with the award for best newcomer in the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards. And yet this year, the vendor has done just that with its new integrated resource…