Actually, I used Bordeaux to get your attention. I write this blog from rural Perigord – the village of Bourdeilles, to be exact – which sits close to some wine appellations that are regarded as Bordeaux, like St. Emilion and Pomerol.
Markit Group has introduced liquidity metrics and scores that indicate levels of liquidity for fixed income securities. Services will initially cover individual instruments, but the company is promising a comprehensive package that will give market participants a view of liquidity across all fixed income markets.
As predicted, Thomson Reuters Markets has relocated Eric Frank, president of its Investment & Advisory business line, to its Hong Kong office, from New York. The move appears to lend credence to the idea that some kind of management reshuffle is under way at Thomson Reuters Markets, as suggested in A-Team editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney’s blog last week [see here].
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Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and complex investment strategies, as well as rising transaction volumes. This has led many from the buy side and the sell side to consider outsourcing strategies for some of these functions, offshoring, in-house development or the acquisition of new vendor technology.
The market and reference data industry’s two largest publicly listed players – Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters – posted 2009 results last week whose resilience gave some cause for optimism. While neither set the world on fire, neither was expected to, given the ongoing weakness in the overall market, whose ‘recovery’ continues to be muted at best.
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