Markit Group Limited, which provides the leading industry source of
independent pricing, reference data and valuations for the global financial and commodities markets, and front-and middle-office fixed income system provider, Charles River Development, have agreed to integrate Markit’s credit pricing and reference entity data into the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS).
The depth of integration will be such that Markit’s data will be
consistently mapped and readily accessible throughout Charles River IMS
for mutual customers. Investment managers will be able to access integrated credit derivative workflow within their order management system.
The XML data feed, available in Version 8 of Charles River IMS, will
initially include data such as Markit REDTM, iTraxx and Dow Jones CDX
constituent data, credit curves and reference entity information.
“BlueBay focuses on alternative and fixed income credit funds and we are
pleased with Charles River IMS’s current and planned support for the
trading, portfolio modelling and compliance monitoring of complex
security types such as credit derivatives,” said Simon Lumsdon, head of
IT, BlueBay Asset Management. “The use of the industry accepted RED
code, entity name, reference obligation and credit index data will allow
for standardised trading with our counterparties as well as improve our
post-trade workflow by enabling electronic matching through DTCC
Deriv/SERV.”