Press release - 12 February 2009
Markit,
a financial information services company, and RiskVal Financial
Solutions, a provider of fixed-income trading and risk management
systems, today announced the integration of Markit’s industry standard
pricing and reference data into RiskVal’s Credit-X trading platform.
The
Credit-X trading platform has integrated a broad array of Markit’s
products and services, including Markit RED [1] for CDS and LCDS;
Markit Quotes [2], Markit Intraday [3]; Markit Indices [4]; and
Markit’s CDS and LCDS spread services [5].
Markit is a
financial information services company that offers independent pricing,
valuations and trade processing services to help market participants
manage risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory
requirements. Markit's alliance with RiskVal has created a trading
platform that delivers improved risk analysis tools including real time
profit and loss management, more accurate data entry and superior
credit event management. Credit-X is available as a remotely managed
Software as ... more »
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Markit and Riskval Partner to Create Credit Derivative Platform
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Sean Sprackling
on Thu 12 Feb 2009 12:33 GMT
Central Counterparty Clearing – Panacea or False Dawn?
by
Sean Sprackling
on Thu 12 Feb 2009 12:28 GMT
The following article was written by my colleague Julian Manfredi and is also published in the Winter edition of ISC's newsletter To what extent is Central Counter Party a positive development for Investment Managers? The 1st century B.C. Roman lawyer, orator and senator Marcus Tullius Cicero famously coined the phrase “cui bono” meaning “to what good”[1] applying it as a maxim during several celebrated legal cases as he sought transparency and clarity of purpose and outcome. 2000 years later, as we face clarion calls for a move to the Central Counterparty Clearing model for OTC derivatives, it is time to apply the axiom afresh with respect to the investment management community The single focus of the ... more » |
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