Craig Quiz 4
Securitized Indices
- Allow investors to gain exposure to and/or track the performance of the Agency RMBS, Non-agency RMBS, and CMBS Markets
Energy & Natural Resources
- Global content and research across the Oil, Gas, Power and Coal sectors including upstream data on 6+ million wells worldwide dating back as far as 1860. - over 1700 team members in 34 countries collecting data, building tools, analyzing industry/market trends and providing support in the energy space, IHS Markit has an unparalleled ability to meet the scope of our clients' needs
What is the main difference between the Iboxx index and a credit index?
- Iboxx deals with bonds, Credit Indices deal with CDS
OTC Derivatives Data
- Independent and flexible service providing access to premium quality , multi-sourced curve and volatility data for OTC interest rates, equity, and FX Derivatives
BD Corporate
- Investor Relations workflow solution built from the ground up - Know your investors and their holdings - Search our global, multi-asset class institutional contact, and ownership data to quickly get the information you need - Prospect for new investors and prepare for roadshows - Advanced investor screening & portfolio analytics provide a view of the investors you are targeting
iBoxx Indices
- Offers broad benchmarking and liquid tradable index solutions that track Bond markets globally - Fueled by multi-source pricing - Rules-based methodologies are publicly disclosed and designed to be replicable
Collateral Manager / Initial Margin
- Offers real-time reporting on all collateral positions - every aspect of the collateral management lifecycle is covered in a secure, hosted environment, with no hardware or software deployments - By outsourcing collateral management workflow to IHS Markit's secure cloud based system, counterparty, clearing broker and CCP margin activity is readily available. - Evolving global margin regulations require counterparties to post and receive collateral for cleared and bilateral OTC Derivatives. This requires firms to have robust collateral management processes in order to manage operational, legal and liquidity risk.
Chemical
- Over 200 leading industry authorities creating integrated views and analysis across more than 300 chemical markets and 2,000 processes for 95 industries
What do the acronyms OTC stand for? What is a derivative?
- Over the Counter - contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying financial asset
Totem
- Provides consensus market prices to major OTC derivative market-makers - Accurately verify derivative positions for your books and records with our valuations - Covers a broad range of asset classes and enables market-makers to independently check their book valuations
TMT
- Telecoms, Media (and advertising) and Technology sector service - World's largest electronics component database with more than 350 million parts. IHS Markit Technology has 300* TMT sector experts who produce: proprietary data sets, forecasts, supply chain analyses and topical reports. In addition, we have metrics about industry & product growth and pricing & volume trends.
Global Markets Intelligence
- These insights allow them to run more effective Investor Relations programs and adjust their strategy if there is a misperception in the market. - provide sector-based teams that serve as an extension of their Investor Relations programs and provide best practice advice, support on internal reporting to management and the Board, and serve as the first line of defense with regard to potential activists - Public companies leverage Global Markets Intelligence service to understand what drives trading in their stock, market sentiment, and real-time insight into their institutional ownership
GPMDS (General Partner Managed Data Service)- PCM
- collects information for GPs on their underlying portfolio companies (income statements, balance sheet, cash flows) so that information collection is secure, timely, and accurate - GP invests the funds capital
LPMDS (Limited Partners Managed Data Service) - PCM
- collects underlying information from General Partners so that LP's don't have to chase that information down themselves (partners' capital account statements, schedule of investments, capital calls and distributions) - LPs are the ones that commit capital - current ecosystem of information consists of over 2300 GPs and 7000 active funds.
Private Equity
- independent valuation and performance reporting solutions to investors in unlisted equity and private placement or hard to value debt
What is collateral and why is it important?
- refers to an asset that a lender accepts as security for a loan, Collateral acts as a form of protection for the lender. That is, if the borrower defaults on their loan payments, the lender can seize the collateral
Why is it important for dealers to be part of Totem?
- so they can get more transparency into the market and so that they can support risk management, product control functions, and get objective valuations
What do the acronyms RMBS and CMBS stand for?
Residential Mortgage Backed Securities, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities