TTSEC launches online hub for financial, market data

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has launched a new on­line Da­ta Hub de­signed to give in­vestors, re­searchers, pol­i­cy­mak­ers and the wider pub­lic eas­i­er ac­cess to fi­nan­cial and se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket sta­tis­tics.

The Com­mis­sion said the plat­form, avail­able through its cor­po­rate web­site, forms part of its ef­forts to im­prove trans­paren­cy and pro­vide time­ly, ac­cu­rate and re­li­able mar­ket in­for­ma­tion.

Pre­vi­ous­ly, se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket da­ta was made avail­able main­ly through down­load­able Ex­cel spread­sheets and the TTSEC’s Se­mi-An­nu­al Se­cu­ri­ties Mar­ket Bul­letin.

The new Da­ta Hub is in­tend­ed to mod­ernise how that in­for­ma­tion is ac­cessed, pro­vid­ing a cen­tralised and more in­ter­ac­tive plat­form through which users can lo­cate, analyse and mon­i­tor key mar­ket trends.

Among the in­for­ma­tion avail­able through the hub are sta­tis­tics on Col­lec­tive In­vest­ment Schemes (CIS), in­clud­ing the num­ber of is­suers and funds, net as­sets by fund type, net as­sets by val­ue type and to­tal as­sets un­der man­age­ment.

Users can al­so ac­cess in­for­ma­tion on to­tal sub­scrip­tions and re­demp­tions, as well as net sub­scrip­tions and re­demp­tions.

The plat­form pro­vides da­ta on se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket in­ter­me­di­aries and mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty, in­clud­ing av­er­age CIS yields, re­pur­chase agree­ment (re­po) as­sets and li­a­bil­i­ties, the num­ber of re­po con­tracts in is­sue, the num­ber of re­po deal­ers, av­er­age re­po ma­tu­ri­ty and av­er­age re­po re­turns.

Oth­er sta­tis­tics in­clude the val­ue of Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go bond is­sues, mar­ket cap­i­tal­i­sa­tion in both the Trinidad and To­ba­go dol­lar and Unit­ed States dol­lar mar­kets, and the val­ue and num­ber of over-the-counter trans­ac­tions.

Da­ta on pri­vate place­ments, in­clud­ing the val­ue of pri­vate place­ment trans­ac­tions and the num­ber of pri­vate place­ment is­sues, is al­so avail­able.

The TTSEC said the en­hanced ac­cess to mar­ket da­ta should sup­port more in­formed in­vest­ment and pol­i­cy de­ci­sions while help­ing stake­hold­ers bet­ter un­der­stand de­vel­op­ments with­in the lo­cal se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket.

The Com­mis­sion said the ini­tia­tive re­flects its strate­gic ob­jec­tive of us­ing tech­nol­o­gy to strength­en ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion and build con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cap­i­tal mar­ket.

It added that it would con­tin­ue to en­hance its dig­i­tal ser­vices and pro­vide in­for­ma­tion aimed at sup­port­ing the growth, ef­fi­cien­cy and in­tegri­ty of the se­cu­ri­ties in­dus­try.