IHS Markit has established connectivity with Lucera and Neptune Networks to deliver to mutual clients of the thinkFolio investment management platform, Lucera and Neptune, access to pre-trade data and liquidity signals.
The announcement comes in response to evolving fixed income market structure themes and associated navigation challenges, says IHS Markit.
Lucera's LumeALFA Analytics is a new lighter version of its LumeALFA service, which is a fixed income data aggregation and market surveillance tool.
The LumeALFA service provides a view of client-selected pre-trade liquidity data from major electronic venues and dealer inventory feeds, as well as connectivity to client-selected execution venues, including single dealer executions.
Lucera's connectivity to IHS Markit's thinkFolio will enable mutual clients of Lucera and IHS Markit to interact with and utilise pre-trade liquidity data and message parsing provided by IHS Markit to help them streamline trading decisions and facilitate best execution analyses.
According to IHS Markit, portfolio managers and traders using thinkFolio can now leverage LumeALFA Analytics to target, search for and sync specific liquidity profiles.
These liquidity profiles support portfolio construction, relative value analyses and rebalancing, and also provide watch lists that alert users to particular market activity.
ThinkFolio clients will also be able to access Neptune's aggregated, real-time axes and inventory directly in the context of other market data.
Brett Schechterman, global head of thinkFolio at IHS Markit, comments: "As we evolve the thinkFolio platform and deliver the next-generation version of the application, openness and flexibility are foundational principals to support seamless integration with third-party and IHS Markit content and services."
Schechterman adds: “Optimal desktop real-estate utility and direct access to actionable liquidity will remain paramount for our portfolio manager and trader personas. Our exciting collaboration with both Lucera and Neptune delivers high-quality pre-trade data and liquidity signals allowing our clients to drive alpha generation and workflow efficiency."
