GoldenSource for Fixed Income is designed to resolve the market problems and requirements of the fixed income market by establishing and maintaining a single, centralized repository of information about all fixed income reference, counterparty and position data.

As a result of market uncertainty and rapid and intense alteration of investment practices, many firms find that their siloed legacy systems cannot adequately handle complicated debt instruments. Often institutions are unable to manage instrument attributes and specific asset class business rules throughout multiple systems and for a wide array of client requirements. The Golden Source data management platform for fixed trading can offer distinct benefits:

Comprehensive Data Model:

• Built on GoldenSource’s widely adopted global financial data model,GoldenSource for Fixed Income is the single consolidated source of descriptive data for the firm’s universe of financial instruments, client information and position data. The universe consists of all fixed income instruments, underlying securities instruments, counterparty and client information.

Reduced Client Business Risks:

• The GoldenSource application offers complete security attribute identification linked to essential counterparty and client position data which can eradicate errors leading to actions from investors seeking loss recovery.
• The application helps Increase confidence in portfolio holdings, as to structure, provisions, counterparties and positions. To be able to manage data and activity overload (i.e. lots of input factors and lots of variants) and apply it to meet all jurisdiction-based regulatory requirements.
• Provides clarity to all flavors of specific asset based rules/restrictions, and all forms of client-specific requirements for risk and expected return.

Access to Industry “Best of Breed” Reference Data

• Connectors to the two primary fixed income data vendors, Bloomberg and Reuters, have been implemented and over a dozen clients.
• All associated fixed income asset class attributes have been mapped and normalized.
• Vast experience implementing additional fixed income vendors such as, FTID Muniview, Reuters EJV, Lehman and industry standard Benchmarks/Indexes.
• Integration to downstream risk systems such asl Algo, Fidessa, or proprietay risk engines.