Pricing & Valuation
Empirasign Adds IDC, TR Evaluated Prices
Adding the evaluated prices will provide front-office users of Empirasign's platform with a "second opinion" to compare to market prices, officials say.
Platts Debuts US Gulf LNG Price Assessment
Platts analysts say the product will bring transparency to an emerging spot market dominated by clauses that restrict trade.
BondWave Nabs Bond Trading Vet Miscimarra
Miscimarra has spent more than 40 years in fixed income trading and technology management and sales.
Thomson Reuters Expands OTC Markets Content
The addition of end-of-day prices and other data expands an existing distribution agreement under which Thomson Reuters already carries OTC Markets' real-time data.
Ipreo Launches iVAL Valuation Platform
The new platform combines data, valuation models and reporting tools
Numerix Buys R2 Code Copy from S&P to Fuel Response to Banks’ ‘Transformation’ Efforts
The deal is one step towards the vendor being better able to serve the "transformation" trend unfolding among its clients.
Valuations Could Rise to C-Level Oversight
US regulators' next move will be to require instituting chief valuation officer role
Thomson Reuters Launches New FX Benchmark
In addition to the 32 rates covered by the ECB reference rate for which this benchmark is an alternative, clients can access an intraday service covering 155 currencies.
Survey: Evaluations Accuracy Improves, But Mortgage Securities Still Challenge Vendors
No vendor demonstrates a clear lead in evaluated pricing overall, SS&C survey says.
OTCGH Preps Oil Options Data from New Broking Desk
The new London-based oil options broking desk will generate a range of trade and quote data for over-the-counter oil options.
Broadridge Hires Clarke for Funds Analytics Intelligence
Clarke will be responsible for increasing the granularity and coverage of Broadridge's data to support new business areas.
Rimes Adds Best Credit Data Muni, Corporate Prices to Managed Services
Rimes clients worldwide will be able to access Best Credit Data's municipal and corporate bond data via Rimes' managed services.
Markit Hires S&P's Dos Santos as Head of North America Biz Strategy
The pricing veteran will be responsible for Markit's fixed income pricing services business.
As Asia Launch Looms, Bloomberg Tradebook Sees Strongest ETF Growth in Fixed Income, Commodities
Kiran Pingali discusses Bloomberg Tradebook's Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETF) Request-for-Quote (RFQ) platform and talks about where the market is heading.
Options Research, Victory Networks Ally for Real-Time Options Analytics Calculator
The former ORATS is expanding its analytics into real time, using live and historical data from Victory Networks.
NewOak Deploys Quantifi Pricing, Analytics Tool
The Quantifi pricing tool will help NewOak improve hte services it provides to clients to make better decisions based on more accurate pricing.
Acquisitions Reshaping Municipal Bond Pricing Services
ICE, MarketAxess moves set up potential race to create muni bond exchange, analyst says
SIX Nets Shapiro for Sales
With more than 20 years in market data sales, Shapiro has worked at FactSet, Morningstar, Tenfore, Thomson Financial and ILX.
GlobalView Preps Excel-Like ‘CurveBuilder’
The platform offers an "Excel-like" interface for those used to pricing energy and commodities contracts using spreadsheets.
Thomson Reuters Releases Power Markets App on Eikon
The new tool will help power companies balance supply and consumption, and help traders plan day-ahead strategies.
FactSet Adds Interactive Data Services
Evaluated fixed-income pricing now available to provider's clients
FactSet Integrates IDC's Continuous Evaluated Pricing and Liquidity Indicators Services
Intercontinental Exchange data subsidiary Interactive Data is making its continuous evaluated fixed-income pricing (CEP) and liquidity indicators services available to customers of FactSet Research Systems, a provider of financial data and software to…
ValuEngine Bows Chinese-Language Reports
The analysis provider has begun providing its stock reports and newsletters in Chinese, in part via an agreement with online broker SogoTrade.
SIX Nets Crabb to Claw in New P&RD Sales
A former associate publisher of Incisive Media's Credit magazine, Crabb has spent a decade in sales of fixed income pricing, ratings and analysis solutions.