Tag: IHS Markit
InvestorAccess reaches milestone with 500th institutional investor on board
IHS Markit reports it has onboarded the 500th institutional investor to its buy-side InvestorAccess community, the firm’s digital primary market platform.
InvestorAccess first launched in...
Tradeweb processes first electronic iBoxx standardised total return swap trade
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has completed the first-ever fully electronic standardized total return swap trade based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx USD Liquid High...
Primary markets: The choices facing buy-side traders
Ted Douglas, Co-Head of Global Fixed Income, Capital Formation at IHS Markit spoke to The DESK about the dynamics of bond issuance for the...
‘HUB’ approach to buy-side middle and back office unites rivals
A new technology-led company, HUB, is being formed to build a cloud-based operating platform aimed at transforming asset managers’ operations technology.
The firm is being...
Fitch Group to acquire CreditSights
Rating and data provider Fitch Group is acquiring CreditSights, the provider of credit research to the global financial community.
The company is being acquired from...
Cboe IBHY Futures set volume and notional value records
Market operator and trading solutions provider, Cboe Global Markets, reports trading in Cboe iBoxx iShares $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index (IBHY) futures set...
Burton-Taylor: S&P and IHS Markit merger creates intriguing synergies in data
On 30 November 2020, S&P Global and IHS Markit announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock...
Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure
As new platforms promise to increase efficiency in bond issuance, buy-side firms are looking for leverage to drive change, and not only through technology.
The...
Knowing the lifetime cost of a derivatives trade
A partnership between Cassini Systems and IHS Markit is enabling investment firms to build a deeper understanding of their derivatives trading costs into pre-trade...
Katana expands instrument universe by 30,000 bonds
With a reported accuracy of 91%, Katana uses machine learning algorithms and the latest big data technologies to analyse live and up to ten...
