Markit
Financial Information Services
Data Overview
Markit’s pricing, reference data products and services use contributions from global institutions. Our independent information for a growing set of asset classes is used throughout the industry for mark-to-market, research, reference, risk control and forecasting activities.
 
Markit BOAT
Markit BOAT is the largest OTC trade reporting venue for the European cash equity market. On a daily basis, Markit BOAT distributes in real-time over €20 billion in trade reported volumes from multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), dark pools and European brokers. Markit BOAT data represents over 25% of the entire European cash equity market and is available over a number of leading market data vendors.
Markit CDS Pricing
Used by firms for mark-to-market, Markit CDS pricing data provides CDS composite and contributor level data on approximately 2,800 individual entities. Applying a data cleansing process, Markit aggregates marks from sell-side contributors to generate its composite price.
Markit Commodities Data
Markit is a leading provider of data for mark-to-market purposes in the commodities space. We cover the energy, metals and agricultural markets with products ranging from vanilla swaps and options to a variety of exotic products.
Markit Equities
Markit Equities combines independent dividend forecasts with a global equity index management service. Our independent benchmark forecasting service covers discrete dividend amounts and ex-dates on over 7,000 stocks worldwide whilst our index management service collates equity index and ETF compositions and delivers them via a single, uniformly formatted feed that is validated and delivered each day before markets open.
Markit Evaluated Bonds
Markit Evaluated Bonds provides the fixed income market with independent pricing data on corporate and sovereign bonds across the investment grade and high yield universe. Markit’s next generation Evaluated Bond prices are derived from multi contributor price sources ("fuel") captured in real time by a dynamic valuation tool to calculate and reflect live market levels. The output includes full transparency metrics and liquidity scores.
Markit Loan Pricing
The Markit Loan Pricing platform provides mark-to-market pricing on over 6,500 loan facilities on a daily basis. This service is supported by more than 60 global sell-side desks that are active in loan sales and trading, promoting market liquidity and pricing transparency.
Markit MSA
A fully validated and independent market share analysis tool for the EMEA cash equity and ETF markets.
 Markit PMI™
Markit PMIs are key benchmark indicators that help economic analysts, business decision-makers, forecasters and policy makers better understand business conditions in the private sector economy. In particular central banks in many countries use the data to help make interest rate decisions and analysts in the financial markets use PMI data to forecast official data such as GDP.
Markit Quotes
Markit Quotes is a real-time quote parsing service that extracts indicative and live over-the-counter (OTC) and cash pricing from email messages. The service provides portfolio managers, traders and risk managers with increased transparency and insight over the course of the day.
Markit RED
Credit derivatives reference data that is utilised by major financial institution to manage CDS risk and efficiently process trades. Markit RED reduces legal risk and increases operational efficiency by verifying reference entity and reference obligation information for both the CDS and LCDS markets.
Markit Sameday
Markit Sameday is a premium, independent mark-to-market data service, providing updated spread curves for single name credit default swaps four times per day.
Markit Securities Finance
The Markit Securities Finance offering delivers securities lending data, tracking short selling and institutional fund flow across the global markets. We provide you with the data you require to manage your securities lending programmes, optimise your trading performance and enhance your investment decision making.
Markit Structured Finance
Markit Structured Finance has a leading presence in the US and European Securitisation Industry and offers a unique and comprehensive suite of services that support transparency and the trading of structured products. With robust solutions to the many complex regulatory challenges facing market participants today, Markit has created a single source for timely and accurate data, analytics, pricing and valuations.
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