Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD)

Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD) is a leading information provider to the leveraged finance community. More than forty of the most active leveraged loan underwriters and investors use LCD's tools to (1) understand market trends better, (2) structure and price new issues, (3) manage their portfolios and (4) enhance credit loss models.

LCD's mission is to create high-quality financial data and analytical products.

Markit WSO clients can export data required by LCD by using the PMD Export tool within the WSO Reporting application.


FT Interactive Data (IDC)

FT Interactive Data, one of the world's leading suppliers of financial data, offers a comprehensive, global data solution to meet the current and expanding needs of Wall Street Office users. Maintaining one of the world's largest global financial databases, FT Interactive Data provides coverage from established to emerging markets, from Agencies to Z-Bonds.

FT Interactive Data serves major financial institutions and corporations worldwide including major banks, brokerage firms, and investment management firms.

Markit WSO clients can import bond and equity information from IDC including pricing and referential data.


Markit

Markit Loans (formerly LoanX) is the only market-supported platform created specifically to increase liquidity and price transparency in the syndicated loan secondary market. Through the LOANMarker™ services, Markit delivers to its clients, daily quotes from over 30 dealers on over 4,000 loans. The Markit Loans system allows clients to view the entire market and track the value of proprietary portfolios through its easy to use, security-rich web site or through a direct link to the client‘s back office system. Markit Loans also integrates credit facility details, analytics, loan market news and more into its services.

Markit is the leading industry source for asset valuation data and services supporting independent price verification and risk management in global financial services and energy markets. Founded in 2001, the company is an independent enterprise with which the world's leading financial institutions and energy traders work strategically to create price transparency. Today, Markit enjoys the sponsorship of 13 financial institutions who manage assets in excess of $10 trillion, and data contribution relationships with over 45 dealing firms. Markit has designed, launched and acquired over 20 financial data services which are now used by over 300 institutions globally. Areas of product expertise and service include an independent valuation perspective on credit default swaps, syndicated loans, OTC derivatives and structured products (credit, equity, FX, rates, energy, power and metals), as well as dividend forecasting and index management.

Markit WSO clients can import Markit pricing automatically via a WSO native utility. Please contact your RM for information.


Black Mountain Systems

Black Mountain Systems delivers superior front office software to institutional investors in corporate syndicated loans and alternative investments traditionally underserved by fixed income systems. The firm's flagship product, the Loan Trade Desk, meets the needs of portfolio managers, traders, analysts, compliance officers, and middle office professionals.

The Loan Trade Desk offers trade order management with automated allocations and pre-trade compliance functionality, credit analysis functionality which enables data access and consolidation of analyst data residing in proprietary and non standard Excel spreadsheets, and advanced dashboarding functionality.