Rimes, a leader in financial data management, has added new data to the award-winning Rimes Benchmark Data Service and the recently launched Rimes Reference Data Service in response to demand from its growing client base.
RIMES offers access to over 500 different data sources from 100 data partners, covering all asset classes. The most recent additions increase RIMES' coverage of equity benchmarks, as well as alternative, economic, commodities and derivatives data, and include the following databases:
• Credit Suisse Liquid Indices
• FTSE Italia Index Series
• FTSE Hong Kong Treasury Indices
• IMF Special Drawing Rights Rates
• Markit CMBX Index
• NASDAQ OMX Global Gold & Precious Metals Index
• Newedge Indices
• S&P Dow Jones Commodity Producers Indices
• S&P Dow Jones Select Sector Indices
• SummerHaven Commodity Indices
Alessandro Ferrari, Global Head of Marketing at RIMES comments: "In today's competitive markets asset managers are under intense pressure from their customers to maximize returns, and this requires innovative trading strategies that rely on more data. Regulatory developments are also having a significant impact on index and benchmark usage.
"We are in constant dialogue with our clients and continually update our services with the data they require to meet this demand in an efficient and cost-effective manner. As all our solutions are cloud-based, our clients can add new data without interruption to service so that they are immediately accessible to the end user."