Interactive Data to provide managed services to new IRS exchange trueEX

Interactive Data is providing trueEX with low-latency hosted services through its 7ticks platform. These services will include monitoring and support for the trueEX matching engine and network architecture, along with connectivity to leading global exchanges such as the CME and the ICE via the 7ticks network for post trade execution clearing solutions. trueEX market participants will be enabled to access financial exchange matching engines from anywhere on the 7ticks global network.

"We provide trueEX and its market participants with managed services designed to help address key issues related to the new swaps trading environment, helping to facilitate market participants with liquidity, fast execution and clearing," said Emmanuel Doe, president, Trading Solutions Group for Interactive Data.

Interest rate swaps were previously traded mainly by phone and lacked regulatory oversight. As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, OTC derivatives trading is now mandated to be electronically executed and cleared in order to provide greater market transparency and efficiency while also reducing systematic risk. In response to this mandate, trueEX founded the first DCM that will serve the $300 trillion global interest rate swaps market when it begins operations in early 2013. This electronic exchange has been designed to meet the needs of market makers, asset managers, hedge funds and other buy-side firms.

"Our clients and market makers look to us to help them meet their regulatory reporting, execution, and clearing requirements through our electronic platforms, as well as provide them with a state-of-the-art facility with all the benefits of security, reliability and redundancy that Interactive Data provides," said trueEX Chief Executive Officer Sunil Hirani.