People are starting to complain about the ABX indices and how the limited number of names mean they indices is being pushed wider than fair value due to short selling

http://www.aleablog.com/dont-mark-to-markit/#comment-828

It will be interesting to see how the CDS indices are affected

http://www.noelwatson.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,f5c355be-b7ad-4e93-96b1-4dee8b737444.aspx

On a Markit related issue, some are unhappy that Markit have a monopoly

http://www.alternet.org/story/74510/?page=entire

http://www.irdonline.com/public/showPage.html?page=331456

http://www.irdonline.com/public/showPage.html?page=339382

As someone who had to work with reference data before red codes I see Markit as a good thing