Who Are SQX's Customers?

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A Diverse Financial World

SQX provides financial data to a wide variety of customers. The financial world is quite broad, and SQX’s customer base illustrates the field’s great diversity. Fortunately, SQX is able to provide prices and data to meet many different needs. SQX customers tend to fall into four main groups: hedge funds, regulators, money managers, and brokers/dealers.


Hedge Funds

Hedge funds use SQX data to gain a competitive edge. It is essential for hedge funds to have up-to-date and accurate information. Indeed, those who are acting upon the most recent information have a significant advantage over hedge funds who are working with even slightly outdated information. Therefore, as hedge funds use our data for price discovery, they arrive at the relative value trades that will put them in the best possible position.


Regulators

Regulators need SQX data to ensure that the decisions they make are accurate. As regulators seek to keep the market running smoothly, their judgements must remain error-free. To prevent costly mistakes, it is essential for regulators to be operating with accurate pricing information. The duties of checking adherence to disclosure and ensuring market stability require the sort of current, accurate data that SQX can provide.


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Money Managers

Money managers benefit from SQX’s information as they discern the best way to invest their assets. Every day, money managers need updated priced securities for day-to-day transactions, as well as end-of-day valuations of portfolios. SQX can provide this updated data, guaranteeing that money managers are able to act from the most informed position, gaining an informational advantage over the competition.


Brokers and Dealers

Brokers and dealers generally need prices for two main reasons. The first is so that they can establish rates on new issues of bonds. When new bond issues are released, brokers and dealers need to know how to price the new issues to potential buyers. Secondly, brokers and dealers frequently require data about trading indications for secondary market trading. At SQX, we produce reliable evaluated prices for a comprehensive universe of global corporate bonds as well as US municipal bonds every day. SQX provides accurate and up-to-date financial data on even the hardest bonds to price.

 

Which of these four groups might you fall into? Whichever category best describes you, we are confident that SQX can help you meet your financial data needs. 


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