otcstreaming.net

What It Is

OTCStreaming is a data service for credit derivatives investors and financial market professionals, and is part of Hellebore Group. Its core focus is not marketing or SEO, but real-time collection, standardization, archiving, broadcasting, and analytics around CDS, credit indices, and related derivatives trading data. The website clearly states that access requires registration and login, and that the content is for internal use by financial market professionals only and does not constitute investment advice.

Core Features and Data

The product is divided into Public, Premium, and Private tiers. Public provides free access to public credit derivatives trading data, including real-time trades from swap data repositories, daily clearing volumes, and trade information warehouse activity reports. Premium offers a full API suite, historical public data, and a pipeline-as-a-service API for advanced analytics and model pricing. Private processes clients’ private credit derivatives data in real time within a dedicated secure vault, with an emphasis on data privacy.

Feature modules include Stream, Snap, Pulse, Pricing, and ioRef. Stream collects, standardizes, enriches, and broadcasts data; Snap aggregates asynchronous prices and outputs mid, bid, offer, and trading activity; Pulse shows intraday dynamics for highly liquid credit derivatives; and ioRef provides reference data for companies, securities, and derivatives. Connectivity options include Web, Excel Add-in, API, WebSocket, and FTP.

Pricing and Target Users

Public is free to register and use; Premium and Private both require contacting sales, with Private explicitly offered on a subscription basis. The official website does not disclose specific pricing, billing cycles, seat limits, or payment methods, so commercial discussions are required before procurement. Suitable users include individual traders, credit derivatives investors, quant/risk teams, and large financial institutions, especially teams that need real-time CDS data, historical data backtesting, pricing, and internal data pipelines.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its highly specialized focus, coverage of both public and private credit derivatives data, support for multiple access methods including API, Excel, WebSocket, and FTP, plus reference data and real-time market views. Its drawbacks are opaque pricing, undisclosed data scale, historical coverage, and service SLA; the site’s terms also impose relatively strict restrictions on data redistribution and copying. In addition, from a marketing/SEO category perspective, it does not match needs such as keyword research, site audits, or backlink analysis.

Access from China and Alternatives

Access from China is not described in the available text and would need to be tested in practice. Payment methods are also not disclosed; it is likely to rely mainly on institutional contracts, but this cannot be confirmed. If the goal is financial market data, alternatives to compare include Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE Data Services, and S&P Global Market Intelligence. If the actual use case is marketing/SEO, tools such as Semrush, Ahrefs, Similarweb, or Google Search Console would be a better fit.