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A division of the Fitch Group, Fitch Solutions brings to market a wide range of fixed-income data, analytical tools and related services. The division is also the distribution channel for Fitch Ratings content.
Fitch Solutions' product offerings include research services, risk and performance analytics, surveillance tools, structured finance solutions, and pricing and valuation services. The division's service offering includes Fitch Training, a specialist training firm for financial professionals.
The Fitch Group also includes Fitch Ratings, a global rating agency committed to providing independent, timely and objective credit opinions, and Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions. The Fitch Group is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France.
For more information about this exciting division, simply contact:
Conor Coughlan
Global Product Marketing
E-mail: conor.coughlan@fitchsolutions.com
Or visit www.fitchsolutions.com
SmartCo provides SmartCo DataHub, a leading global enterprise data management solution, empowering users to collect, model, normalize, cleanse, consolidate, enhance, analyze and distribute their whole data universe, to optimize data quality, cost, administration, risk and governance, and to meet regulatory expectations, accelerate the delivery of new products, and better operate and serve their clients.
SmartCo DataHub covers all the data area (financial instruments, market data, corporate actions, indexes, third parties, funds, positions, transactions, performance and risk data, etc.), is built on a model-driven and highly flexible and powerful software platform, providing best-in-class end-to-end data management, enabling users to rapidly implement and extend their own custom applications.
Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data's offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,400 employees in offices worldwide.
A leader in its field, SIX Telekurs specializes in procuring, creating, processing and distributing international financial information.
Financial market specialists at SIX Telekurs gather information from all the world's major trading venues - directly and in real-time. SIX Telekurs' award winning database of reference data, corporate actions and pricing for 7.6 million financial instruments is structured and encoded, and is unique in terms of its depth of information and data coverage. With offices in 23 countries, SIX Telekurs combines the advantages of global presence and local know-how.
SIX Telekurs is a SIX Group company. On a global scale, SIX Group offers first-rate services in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement, as well as financial market information and payment transactions.
Asset Control offers a combination of proven technology and expert knowledge to ensure that financial organizations have the accurate, accessible and actionable data that is necessary to drive their business.
Its solutions transform raw data from various sources into a usable form and distribute it to the right people at the right time. Asset Control ensures that decision-making in mission-critical operations is based on a consistent set of transparent information that is traceable and auditable.
Asset Control's scalable systems and flexible approach allow financial institutions to respond efficiently and easily to customer demands, new regulations and changing market landscapes to increase revenues and create competitive advantage.
WM Datenservice has been an information service provider to the financial industry for over 60 years, and has played a decisive role in the optimization of business processes (STP). WM Datenservice plays an active role in developmental processes on both the national and European levels through competent servicing and constant evolution, research, and innovation. WM Datenservice works at several associations i.e. ANNA, ISO, DIN, ISSA, FISD in order to form international standards. Beyond that, WM Datenservice is responsible for allocating German securities identification numbers (WKNs) and International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) to German securities. WM Datenservice is a Herausgebergemeinschaft WERTPAPIER-MITTEILUNGEN Keppler, Lehmann GmbH & Co. KG company.
For further information, visit www.wmdaten.com.
The Cadis EDM platform puts quality, audited data at the centre of your organisation. Our solutions build gold copy masters across all data types, deliver tangible data governance, risk management and compliance frameworks & rationalise legacy architectures. The Cadis EDM platform is the central hub for all transactions, securities, prices, rates, counterparty & issuer data. We empower those who understand the data to manage the data, no matter the complexity, volume or scope of the project. Cadis has a 100% successful implementation record that is measured in weeks not months, typically 7-10 times quicker than our competitors. Our clients are global & include banks, regulators, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies and pension funds.
Fitch Solutions is committed to delivering value beyond the rating by providing a range of fixed-income products and professional development services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary content, the firm also distributes the ratings, research, financial data and analytical tools of Fitch Ratings through a variety of platforms.
With innovation and experience behind every product and service we bring to market, our flexible offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the credit markets. Drawing upon a wealth of expertise, skills, and market insight, we provide financial professionals worldwide with the intelligence they need to make more informed risk management and investment decisions.
Fitch Solutions as well as Fitch Ratings and Algorithmics are part of the Fitch Group. The Fitch Group is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France. For additional information, please visit www.fitchsolutions.com; www.fitchratings.com; and www.fimalac.com.
For more information about this exciting division, simply contact:
Conor Coughlan
Global Product Marketing
E-mail: conor.coughlan@fitchsolutions.com
Telephone: +44 20 3530 1000
Or visit www.fitchsolutions.com
PolarLake works with Global Financial Institutions and Asset Managers to implement Pricing and Reference Data Distribution and Integration solutions.
We help our clients to control the collection, access and distribution of Pricing and Reference Data to internal consumers across their organizations. They work with us to:
• Control and ensure transparency on their end to end Data Supply Chain
• Achieve faster Time to Market than is possible with generic approaches
• Manage the Complexity of Pricing and Reference Data Distribution and Integration.
PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant.
PolarLake’s clients include 6 of the top 10 Investment Banks, 2 of the top 5 Prime Brokers and 2 of the top 10 Asset Managers in the world.
SmartCo provides Smart Financial Data Hub, a leading global data management solution covering all the data area, including market data, corporate actions, indexes and benchmarks, third parties, funds and mandates, financial analysis, etc., as well as operational data for positions and transactions. Its innovative and scalable technology accelerate design and deployment of durable, upgradeable solutions, and allows financial institutions to model and centralise data, to distribute or give access to the whole data universe, to optimize data quality, data administration workflow and data governance, and to urbanise their information system. With its cutting-edge solution and technology, SmartCo has been selected and recognized by large financial institutions as a strategic solution to reduce their risks, optimize their processes, meet regulatory expectations, accelerate the delivery of new products, and better serve their clients.
Sybase, an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. The top 100 global banks and securities firms rely on Sybase technology. And, over 100 companies currently use the Sybase real-time analytics solutions, while processing hundreds of thousands of financial trades-in real time-from Wall Street to Tokyo, and from Hong Kong to London.
