Credit
Fitch Names Olert CRO
Fitch Group, the parent company of ratings agency Fitch Ratings, has appointed John Olert as group chief risk officer, a newly created role responsible for all types of risk that could impact the company's performance and reputation, reflecting "a more…
Credit Benchmark to Begin Publishing Consensus Credit Ratings by Year-End
London-based Credit Benchmark, a startup provider of aggregated, bank-generated credit ratings, is preparing to publish its first set of live data towards the end of this year, which will be the first of its monthly──and ultimately more frequent──rating…
Infront Expands Credit Content to Boost Cross-Asset Ambitions
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added corporate bond data and analytics to its Infront Plus market data terminal, in response to increased demand for these instruments following the 2008 financial crisis.
IDC Expands Real-Time Bond Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has expanded its continuous fixed income evaluated pricing service to provide users with real-time evaluated prices for US Treasury, agency and corporate bonds, TBA mortgage-backed securities, and mortgage-backed securities pass-through…
1010Data Incorporates TransUnion Credit Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has added monthly loan-level credit data from credit bureau TransUnion, mapped to pools of mortgage-backed securities and risk-share securities issued by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.'s (Freddie…
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
SuperDerivatives Bolsters SDX, DGX Data Coverage with Credit Options
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has added volatility surfaces for a range of credit indexes to its SDX multi-asset pricing platform for pricing structured products and its DGX market data terminal.
S&P Capital IQ Launches Company Credit Risk Data Service
McGraw Hill Financial-owned data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week launch a new tool for assessing the probability of default for all public and private companies, dubbed PD (Probability of Default) Model Fundamentals, to…
ModeFinance Readies Credit Risk Data Portal
Web portal will enable small and medium size firms to access basic credit risk reports of companies across Europe, and purchase more detailed data for a small fee
Vega-Chi Unleashes Credit ATS for Institutional Investors
Vega-Chi, which has operated a multilateral trading facility in Europe for several years, has launched a credit alternative trading system (ATS) that will allow firms in the US to match specific credit products without intermediation.
