CUSTOMERS
"With the data from BQuotes' BestData, we will be able to evaluate our customers' fixed income portfolios with greater rigor, particularly those portfolios in the rapidly growing Credit Default Swap space," said Frank Ciccotto, Senior Vice President for Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations.
"Our partnership with BQuotes is a natural extension of Thomson IFR's strategy to deliver the best real-time analysis to the sell and buy-side in the rapidly growing derivatives arena," said Edward Rombach, senior analyst, IFR Markets.
Angelo Gordon, a leading investment management firm founded in 1988 and managing approximately $10 billion, chose BQuotes for its trading and risk functions.
One of the most sophisticated hedge funds, founded in '92, managing in excess of $40 billion and majority owned by JP Morgan Chase & Co., Highbridge uses BQuotes to organize the market information in CDS, Convertibles, Corporates, Tranches and Indexes.
Jonathan Zhukovsky, Highbridge Managing Director and CTO said:
"BQuotes is delivering a fully automated solution without costly and time-delayed human intervention and with excellent support. It has become an important component of our trading infrastucture."
With extensive experience in using competitive parsing systems, Cura Capital is as sophisticated a client as they come.
"We have used other parsing systems in the past, but in contrast to those, BQuotes demonstrated that they could keep up with our changing needs, cover new instruments as needed, and provide first class support. It was an easy choice." said Robert Wenzel.
In the Americas, Julius Baer focuses on asset management. The Julius Baer Group is the leading dedicated wealth manager in Switzerland.
With more than 3,600 employees worldwide, the Group managed clients' assets in excess of CHF 406 billion at the end of December 2006.
"BestQuotes has made our high yield trading much more effective and we anticipate it will offer significant future cost savings", said Greg Hopper, Julius Baer Investment Management's Head of Global High Income Strategy.
With a focus in volatility-related strategies, AM Investment Partners uses technology as a key differentiator in managing its diversified portfolios.
"We use data from various sources for our trading and models. BQuotes has the only parsing solution that works with our products and their support is exceptional. It is a great time and money saver." said Mark Friedman, Chief Investment and Risk Officer.
Another customer who has performed thorough research before selecting their provider:
"We were in the market for a parsing system, and BQuotes was not only up and running in one day with their ASP model, but was easily the most rounded-up product, from being able to handle our spreadsheets to parsing all the instruments that we needed to providing better support, all at a competitive price."
