The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, announced the expansion of its iFlow product offering, with extensive fixed income and equity data analytics.
iFlow provides a vantage point of insights into BNY’s $50 trillion+ in assets under custody and/or administration, revealing “global asset allocation trends and market-moving reactions, to investment managers and asset owners.”
With this capability, BNY’s iFlow will now be able to generate on-demand charts for shorts, holdings, and positioning, “complementing existing flow views.”
This allows for “clearer” definitions of rotation trade equity, credit, and duration in bonds and, ultimately supports “improved benchmark definitions and portfolio construction.”
iFlow will now provide the following fixed income and equity insights:
- iFlow Shorts: aggregates short interest metrics that capture borrowing and lending behavior, aiding portfolio managers in making portfolio construction decisions.
- iFlow Holdings: reflects investor exposure to stock and bond markets, showing an aggregated view into how investors have allocated capital across country, sector, credit rating and maturity.
- iFlow Positioning: measures investment preferences based on aggregated investor holdings, showing capital deployment across countries and sectors, compared to other asset classes and benchmarks.
The indicators are designed to provide transparency into “unexpected” market moves and show how markets have acted historically, helping to “determine the potential vulnerabilities around shock events.”
As reported, BNY is a financial services firm that helps make money work for the world — managing it, moving it and keeping it safe.
BNY has partnered alongside clients, putting its “expertise and platforms to work to help them achieve their ambitions.”
BNY supports governments in funding projects and works with “over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals.”
As of Sept 30, 2024, BNY reportedly “oversees $52.1 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.1 trillion in AuM.”
As covered, BNY is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.
Headquartered in New York City, BNY employs more than 50,000 professionals throughout the world.
iFlow is “in-depth commentary” and analysis that is said to be provided by BNY’s Markets Strategy team.
Launched in 2010, iFlow delivers insights based on “anonymized and aggregated flows” that are reportedly gathered from more than $50 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, designed to provide “market color to investment managers across global financial markets.”
