Markit Connex Discussion Forums

With Markit Connex Forums, colleagues, counterparties and clients around the world can  quickly communicate and colloborate, which is especially valuable when immediate group collaboration is timely and critical. Everyday, financial firms around the world use Markit Connex to securely transmit millions of messages around the globe in real-time, bringing traders, clients and counterparties closer, regardless of locations or time zones.

Markit Connex users can quickly use Discussion Forums to create topic-based "chat rooms" for small or large groups to:

• share market intelligence
• connect departments and trading desks
• make faster decisions
• conduct more business
• build communities by creating forums "on the fly"
• quickly extend invitations to colleagues or counterparties

Each forum is secure, as each is permission-based and the data, content and participants are strictly controlled. Permissioned users can always access complete forum transcripts at a later date.

What can firms do with Discussion Forums?

• Trading Desks can use forums as an enhanced online "hoot 'n holler".
• Sales can share information and ideas among prospective clients, quickly and efficiently.
• Chief Economists, Strategist and Analysts can share market color with a desk or the entire trading floor simultaneously
• Global firms can share information around the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Syndicate desks can communicate information on new issue deals across each participating underwriter's syndicate desk
• Front Office and Back Office can easily resolve customer issues with instant collaboration