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Markit BOAT™ is a MiFID-compliant trade reporting platform. More than 22 leading investment houses report their OTC trades in equities on Markit BOAT™. Between them, these dealers handle a majority of the daily European OTC trading volume.
Markit BOAT™ gives sell-side and buy-side firms a clear and comprehensive view of the European OTC markets, bringing transparency and efficiency to these previously opaque markets.
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MiFID and fragmentation: a challenge to be embraced not feared, by Will Meldrum, Head of Markit BOAT
Press Releases
Markit, the leading provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing to the global financial markets, today announced that it has acquired BOAT, the MiFID-compliant trade reporting platform, from the consortium of nine investment banks that launched the initiative in September 2006.
BOAT Enhances Offering Prior to Launch
As part of a marketing initiative to demonstrate the value, accuracy and breadth of its data, BOAT will offer its real-time dataset free of charge to both potential and existing clients until 1 January 2008. In addition, following extensive consultation of potential clients, market data vendors, trade associations, consultants and user groups, BOAT will provide a delayed datafeed which will be made available free of charge as from 1 January 2008
Media Contacts
Teresa Chick
Managing Director, Corporate Communications
Markit
Tel: +44 20 7260 2094
Mobile: +44 7747 468486
Email: teresa.chick@markit.com
Caroline Lumley
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Markit
Tel: +44 20 7260 2047
Mobile: +44 7825 892303
Email: caroline.lumley@markit.com
