Ratings
December 2016: Do You Manage or Solve Data?
Inside Data Management's combination of market data and reference data topics will reflect a growing convergence between different aspects of data management.
Tackling Transparency: ESMA Eyes Ratings Opacity
ESMA plans to more closely supervise rating agencies' pricing policies, in response to what user firms say is a lack of transparency.
Morningstar Revamps Ratings for Fund Comparisons
The move will allow investors to more easily compare ETFs and open-end funds, Morningstar officials say.
ESMA Fines Fitch for Ratings Rules Breaches
Over an 18-month period, ESMA found nine instances where Fitch analysts shared information with Fitch's parent company, in breach of ESMA rules.
SIX Nets Crabb to Claw in New P&RD Sales
A former associate publisher of Incisive Media's Credit magazine, Crabb has spent a decade in sales of fixed income pricing, ratings and analysis solutions.
Morningstar Names Senior Research Execs
Reorganizations of the vendor's manager research teams by region and asset class have resulted in a series of new roles and appointments.
Fitch Debuts ‘Connect' Integrated Credit Ratings, Research, Fundamentals Platform
The new platform provides ratings, research, economic data and analytics, plus exclusive financial fundamental data.
StockViews Targets Quality Recommendations to Combat Contributor Overload
The vendor is cutting through the Big Data of "analyst" contributions to deliver only the highest-quality recommendations.
ESMA Gives Ratings Nod to Poland's INC Ratings
INC's registration brings the total number of ESMA-approved rating agencies to 25.
Fitch Rating Fee Increases Anger Users
Some firms face fee increases of 100 percent as a result of the vendor's new license plans.
S&P CapIQ Adds Fitch Content, Completing ‘Big Three' Ratings Lineup
The vendor has added Fitch ratings to its existing lineup of S&P and Moody's ratings.
FactSet Begins Carrying Trendrating Momentum Reports
The Trendrating reports will be available to buy-side cleints of FactSet's Research Connect service.
FTSE Russell Preps New ESG Indexes, Ratings Data Platform
The vendor will roll out a platform that allows users to access more granular underlying data.
SEC Appoints Ramarathnam to Credit Ratings Watchdog
Ramarathnam, a 10-year SEC staffer, will take up her new role later this month.
CreditSights Integrates BondScore, Ratings Models into Risk Products Platform
The combination of both models will allow users to access information on one website.
CreditSights Integrates BondScore, Ratings on Single Web Platform
The move will allow investment professionals to access CreditSights' risk estimates and ratings via a single platform.
MSCI Debuts ESG Ratings Tool
The new tool combines a raft of new and expanded datasets for analysis of companies' environmental, social and governance risk.
S&P Eyes Cross-Platform Ratings Data Push
Vendor plans new distribution mechanisms for existing datasets.
Ex-SEC CIO Bayer Resurfaces at S&P's Ratings Services
Bayer stepped down from the SEC in October
S&P Pays $1.375Bn to Settle Ratings ‘Fraud' Case
Under settlement, vendor admits giving high ratings to risky RMBS issues.
Fitch Fetches S&P's Whitmore to Run EMEA Biz
Vendor anticipates new hire will help open new growth opportunities.
S&P Cap IQ Adds Moody's Ratings to XpressFeed
Moody's is first set of ratings from other agencies that S&P plans to add in the future.
Moody's Acquires Pricing, Analytics Vendor Lewtan Tech
Moody's Corporation, the parent company of credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics, has acquired Waltham, Mass. -based structured finance analytical tools and market data provider Lewtan Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
Post-Launch and Funding, Vetr Eyes Institutional Clients for Crowd-Sourced Ratings
Crowd-sourced stock ratings provider Vetr has completed the second stage of a $1 million investment round, and is now focusing on attracting more users and contributors to its portal, to make its content more appealing to institutional traders and hedge…