Michael Kovacs Email & Phone Number

Trenton, Nj, Us

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

London, England, Gb

Product manager for public and private credit within LSEG Analytics, including CLOs, syndicated, leveraged and middle market loans, and direct lending. Business and product development for LPC Loan Connector, LPC Collateral and BDC Collateral.

London, England, Gb

Led business and product development for Refinitiv Capital Markets offerings, including LPC/Loan Connector, IFR/International Finance Review, PFI/Project Finance International, LPC Collateral and BDC Collateral. Launched commercial opportunities for middle market loans, direct lending, and private credit fundraising.

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded and created a new department producing analysis of credit-related insights for ~2,000 global companies, consisting of public and private constituents within Barclays BRAIS high-yield and investment-grade indices as well as distressed and defaulted entities. Direct oversight and ownership of subset of 900 US and 84 LATAM companies. Globally recruited, trained, directed and mentored +35 data analysts, including senior non-internal hires from credit market space. Facilitated global advancement of 8 junior analysts into leadership roles. Assembled a big data research team, which identified unique sector, entity and instrument-specific key insights via Python, SQL and other data mining tools. +100 research pieces produced leveraging this new analysis. Led offshore teams which comprised ~50 specialists. Transformed SOW production and quality targets. Developed and reported progress against new KPIs and Business Intelligence (BI) metrics leveraging Qlik Sense. Initiated opportunity to target clients that would become early adopters of new content offerings via Bloomberg's proprietary CRM.

New York, Ny, Us

Brought in to turn around troubled project. Led global equity analyst teams in development of derivation, standards and best practices for new Enhanced Financial statement data and valuation models. Protected against entrenched competitors such as S&P CapIQ, FactSet, and IHS Markit. Directed +40 global analysts to meet coverage ask of 10 years of normalized data for 11,000 companies across 20 global equity indices in three separate releases. Facilitated advancement of 5 junior analysts into leadership. Steered team of +600 offshore vendors. Change management and improved reporting oversight reduced vendor processing turnaround from 36 days to 12 hours while continuing to achieve a level of 99.5% accuracy.Initiated opportunity to target clients that would become early adopters of new content offerings via Bloomberg's proprietary CRM.

New York, Ny, Us

Positioned Bloomberg as a market leader within the global syndicated leveraged and institutional loans space. Protected against loan-specific competitors such as LCD, LPC LoanConnector, Intralinks, S&P CapIQ, Reuters, IHS Markit, and Dealogic. Principal stakeholder in transformation of syndicated loans into a profit-generating fixed income division. Directed a team of +45 analysts. Facilitated global advancement of 4 junior analysts into leadership roles. Established and implemented global best practices in symbology, taxonomy and data management for loans. Initiated opportunity to target clients that would become early adopters of new content offerings via Bloomberg's proprietary CRM.

New York, Ny, Us

Optimized quality assurance team’s involvement in direct support of Bloomberg’s e-trading (Tradebook Equities, Fixed Income, FX) and data distribution (B-Pipe, desktop API, Bloomberg Data Model) platforms. Increased department’s visibility within a greater volume of strategic projects, which helped to facilitate new trading tools and liquidity for governments, corporate debt, swaps, FX, and derivatives. Utilized Six Sigma best practices to improve upon analyst engagement at each stage of the software development life cycle. Directed beta test team of +40 Software Quality Assurance (SQA) testers. Facilitated growth and advancement of 4 junior analysts into leadership roles.

New York, Ny, Us

Positioned Bloomberg as a market leader in the global energy space. Directed team of +25 analysts. Facilitated global advancement of 4 junior analysts into leadership roles. Championed involvement in projects that yielded new data valuation and generics in oil and derivatives, power, natural gas, weather derivatives and carbon trading. Protected against competitors such as S&P Global Platts, OPIS, and Dow Jones. Partnered with stakeholders in achieving an enhanced level of collaboration across Sales, Trade Execution, Engineering, Client Support, and News on a global strategic engagement.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us