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Credit Trading Update
14 April 2005
Managing real time credit default swap data
Forbes Elworthy, Credit Market Analysis
Use of real-time data in the CDS market:
- How much of this data is there?
- On what channels does it flow?
- How good is the data?
- What must a vendor such as CMA-QuoteVision do well to help clients with their data?
- What uses can a client make of real time CDS data?
Forbes Elworthy
Forbes graduated from Oxford in 1988 and joined Goldman Sachs. An MBA at Harvard Business School (1992) was followed by 7 years at Merrill Lynch, where he was principally involved in credit and credit derivative trading. From 1997 to 1999 he headed Merrill’s European Credit Derivatives group.
Forbes helped to found a hedge fund called CQS Management in 1999. At CQS he was a principal and built up a credit relative value trading strategy.
Forbes is now chairman of Credit Market Analysis, which he set up in 2000
Credit Market Analysis
Credit Market Analysis, CMA provides high quality credit market data and analytics to credit market traders. CMA’s QuoteVision product supports real time CDS quotation data. CMA’s CreditLab database supports CDS and bond spread time series going back to 2000.
For more details, please visit www.creditma.com