Refinitiv expands data distribution agreement with Yieldbroker
Refinitiv customers will have access to Yieldbroker Bank Bills pricing in Eikon on a rolling free trial basis.
Provider of financial markets data and infrastructure Refinitiv announces expansion of its data distribution agreement with Yieldbroker to provide Bank Bills pricing to customers.
The partnership enables Refinitiv to provide market participants with critical information relating to short-term funding, balance sheet management, along with hedging strategies and necessary instrument valuation and risk management.
Access to real-time data feeds is seen as crucial to the ability of institutions to function and react appropriately to market conditions. To help market participants in the current environment and with the impact of COVID-19, Refinitiv customers will have access to Yieldbroker Bank Bills pricing in Eikon on a rolling free trial basis. Financial professionals can access Yieldbroker data in their own applications as well as their Eikon desktops, and with backloaded historical data, can select deployment to various use cases in Front, Middle and Back Office functions.
Yieldbroker is the main trading platform for Australian Bank Bills and NCDs and is also the dominant Approved Trading Venue (ATV) through which transactions in underlying Prime Bank Paper are reported and used as a key input into the calculation of the BBSW daily fixing rate by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
“Having the underlying tick by tick pricing as well as historical data, provides unique insight into the Australian Bank Bills pricing and activity,” said Daryl Sisson, Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Refinitiv.
“The real-time pricing generated from Yieldbroker’s trading platform is the best representation of the live Australian Bank Bills and NCDs market rates as it includes executable bids and offers (yield and volume) of Prime Bank Bills paper submitted via Yieldbroker”, he added.
