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Dear Sir or Madam,
Volatility in the global financial markets,
combined with new regulations and directives, have led financial
firms and their investors to focus even more firmly on the value
of their holdings, and on assessing risk and understanding liquidity.
We’ve seen a growing demand for independent evaluated pricing,
especially for the more thinly traded fixed income securities, and
for more frequent valuations as tools to help investors understand
their holdings. The use of multiple sources of valuations is already
common practice both in the US and the UK, with the rest of Europe
now moving to adopt this as best practice.
Interactive Data
has recently expanded the breadth and depth of coverage available
via PrimeTerminal, offering access to independent evaluated prices for 2.8 million
fixed income investment products worldwide, provided daily by Interactive Data
Pricing and Reference Data.
We have also enhanced the functionality
of PrimeTerminal by launching a companion mobile solution for BlackBerry
devices, helping professionals to keep in touch with the financial
markets when they are on the move.
Please find more information
on these topics and other news in the January 2010 issue of Compass.
Sincerely,
Carsten Dirks
Managing Director
Interactive
Data Managed Solutions AG
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January 2011
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PrimeTerminal now available for BlackBerry Mobile Devices |
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Evaluated Pricing Data for 2.8 Million Global Securities |
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New German Company Website to support local Client Base |
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First Roundtable for Customers in Munich |
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Upcoming Events |
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Products:
PrimeTerminal now available for BlackBerry
Mobile Devices |
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With PrimeTerminal Mobile, professional financial
advisors can keep in touch with the financial markets when they
are on the move. The BlackBerry® application enables users to
follow developments in the financial markets in real time and monitor
their own portfolios at any time and from anywhere.
PrimeTerminal
Mobile offers access to a broad range of real-time quotes, historical
and reference data, charts, business news and market overviews.
Portfolios and watchlists can easily be accessed to check the performance
of individual positions or an entire portfolio, and relevant news,
events and other information on a specific security can be quickly
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added value when making investment decisions.
PrimeTerminal Mobile replicates users’ personal portfolio settings
from their desktop application, while a sophisticated, user-friendly
interface allows for individual customisation of the data displayed.
Financial market professionals can benefit from the same
user-specific entitlement in terms of content, asset class coverage
and depth of history as for the PrimeTerminal desktop solution.
Customers can access much of the time-sensitive content and functionalities
defined within their desktop solution. This can help them to quickly
adjust their investment decisions in changing conditions even if
they are out of the office.
Please visit the
PrimeTerminal
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Content:
Evaluated Pricing Data for 2.8 Million Global Securities |
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The depth and breadth of global content available
to wealth managers and financial advisors via PrimeTerminal has
been significantly expanded. The customizable desktop now offers
access to a vast wealth of independent fixed income evaluated pricing,
securities pricing and reference data for more than 7 million instruments.
The enhanced coverage now offered via PrimeTerminal includes
seamless access to the breadth and depth of content available via
FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. As a leading
provider of independent evaluated pricing services, Interactive
Data delivers daily evaluations for approximately 2.8 million fixed
income and international equity issues. The coverage spans a broad
range of instruments and represents approximately 100 countries
and 30 different currencies. Over 5,000 financial institutions worldwide,
from central banks to large investment banks, subscribe to Interactive
Data’s evaluated prices to support pricing activities, research
and portfolio management.
Interactive Data was named “Best
Third-Party Valuation Provider” in the Credit Awards Americas 2010,
and “Best Evaluated Prices Services Provider” in the Inside Reference
Data Awards in both 2009 and 2010.
Please visit the
Evaluation Services section on our website for more information.
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Corporation:
New German Website to support local
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Interactive Data has launched a German language
website at www.interactivedata.de.
It is designed to provide local language support to German-speaking
clients.
The German content initially includes corporate
information and presents the company’s capabilities in the
Web-based
Solutions and Desktop Solutions area. Additional sections of the
website will gradually be translated to German to support the marketing
of a wider range of capabilities.
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Some highlights of the new German version of the website include
the Industry Insights section ("Marktthemen"), which features German
press releases, media coverage, industry event participation and
the customer magazine ‘compass’. The German website marks an important
first step towards the longer term goal of a multi-language website
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Events:
First Roundtable for Customers in Munich |
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Interactive Data’s German Sales team invited
their South-German customers to join a half-day Roundtable event
themed "New Requirements for Financial Service Providers" in Munich
on 23 November, 2010.
A selected group of clients and prospects
gathered at the Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Hotel and discussed
the changing conditions financial market professionals are currently
facing. Higher transparency requirements, paired with customers
demanding a better advisory service and tighter communication, make
it necessary for financial institutes to rethink existing paths
and evaluate how to best adjust themselves to this development.
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In his opening talk Peter Heister, Director of Sales Europe,
presented Interactive Data's range of products and demonstrated
how they could support a customers‘ value chain in the innovative
advisory of Front-, Mid- and Backoffice.
Michael
Diefenthäler, Manager Business Development, then
introduced the "Follow your Customer" approach, addressing web
portal, desktop, mobile device and social web with consistent
solutions and thus designed to help finance professionals
establish efficient multichannel strategies. Finally Arne Schwappach,
Head of Account Management, described current trends in wealth management
advisory using best practice examples.
The subsequent networking
lunch offered a good opportunity to further discuss the solutions
and products presented, explain details and wrap up the event.
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Upcoming Events |
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Frankfurt am Main:
Interactive Data will be exhibiting at the
eFinance Lab's Spring Conference themed "Financial System Stability
– Can IT Infrastructure Contribute to a Solution?"
The conference takes place on 22 February 2011 at the Campus
Westend of Goethe University.
Madrid:
Interactive Data will be a sponsor of the
FISD General meeting,
held at the Bolsa y Mercados Españoles (BME)
on 2-3 March, 2011. Bob Cumberbatch, European Business Lines
Director at Interactive Data, will be on a panel discussion on
"MiFIDs Impact on the Market Data Industry - Past, Present and
Future".
Together with UNEDISA, a leading Spanish
financial company and information company and publisher of
business journal Expansión Interactive Data will again host the
“Funds Awards” in March 2011. The awards recognize the most
successful international fund companies over the
past year.
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