Donal Smith

Credit Benchmark Ltd. provides credit risk data and analytics. It operates a contributed data model, focused on gathering credit risk information from the world’s major global banks. The firm also offers customized output and risk reports to highlight areas of interest for credit professionals. It calculates consensus credit risk data analytics for probability of default and loss given default at the entity level in the areas of sovereigns, corporates, and banks, as well as non-bank financials that include private equity, mutual funds, and hedge funds. It currently focuses on credit risk estimates produced by banks using the Internal Ratings-Based Approach. The company was founded by Donal Smith and Mark Faulkner in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Rothermere Continuation Ltd. (Jersey), Commodity Vectors Ltd. is a holding British company that provides sea and coastal freight water transportation services. The private company is based in London, UK. Founded in 2012.

Markit Securities Finance Analytics Ltd. engages in the provision of global securities finance data, tracking short selling, and institutional fund activity. The company was founded by Mark C. Faulkner on January 14, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Pirum Systems Ltd. provides post-trade processing services. It provides advanced, centralised and secure services for financial market participants, utilising Internet technologies and the ASP (Application Service Provider) delivery model. The firm products and services include classic services that provide market participants with automated comparisons of the key financial details of their open contracts, monthly billing, and income claims; real-time services, which deliver new levels of automation and straight-through processing for marks, exposure, returns, and payments processing; tri-party automation services for covering the calculation, agreement, and submission of daily required collateral value to tri-party agents across various counterparties; and central counterparty (CCP) gateway services that enable customers to clear bilaterally agreed stock lending trades. The company was founded by Rupert Perry and Jeff Armstrong in June 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Five Arrows Managers (USA) LLC (Five Arrows Managers) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Rothschild Merchant Banking founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in New York with an office in Los Angeles.

Part of Five Arrows Camwell II, Pirum Holdco Ltd. is a British company founded in 2015 that offers a comprehensive securities financing transactions regulation (SFTR) solution in partnership with IHS Markit to help firms with their chosen reporting path. The private company is based in London, UK and aims to provide lower costs, greater efficiency, and reduced operational risk to its clients. Pirum already supports the industry with around 80% of the UTI flow across stock lending, repo, buy/sell backs and margin-lending transactions.