Pricing Partners to provide a Price-it® Excel ‘09 version fully integrated to Reuters 3000 Xtra®
Paris-London –Pricing Partners®, www.pricingpartners.com, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in cutting edged mathematical models for OTC derivatives and structured products, announced today that Price-it® Excel® ‘09 version can now be easily connected to Reuters 3000 Xtra® market data thanks to a set of Excel® example spreadsheets providing typical Reuters 3000 Xtra® tickers for interest rates, equity, inflation, credit, foreign exchange, commodity, funds, and energy.

The Price-it® Excel® ‘09 version is shipped with more than 100 market data examples of Reuters 3000 Xtra® tickers on markets covering the US, Europe or Asia. Hence, clients with a Reuters 3000 Xtra® market data license will be able to use Price-it Excel very rapidly without the need to develop their own market data spreadsheets. Pricing Partners also developed recently a technology to publish easily structured market data object within Excel. This new functionality gives Price-it® users the ability to centralize their market data and use them within all spreadsheets of the same Excel session.
Eric Benhamou comments: “Our philosophy is to serve our clients the best and provide them all the tools and technology to make their life easier and more effective. The Price-it® Excel ’09 version should substantially reduce the workload of our clients to use our analytics and models fed with Reuters 3000 Xtra® market data. Reuters 3000 Xtra® is a major reference for front office market data. It is therefore a substantial step for us to ease our client workflow when feeding our pricers with Reuters 3000 Xtra® market data.”

About Pricing Partners
Set up by former professionals of the trading industry, Pricing Partners offers accurate solutions for derivatives products valuation, pricing tools and risk analytics. Thanks to Price-it online, a SaaS platform, Pricing Partners provides independent valuation from the vanilla to the most exotic financial products on most assets (Interest Rates, Fixed Income, Equity, Inflation, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Life Insurance and Hybrid products). Pricing Partners develops and commercializes Price-it Excel, an analytic and independent pricing library using a generic payoff language description which allows the pricing of virtually any financial derivatives. Price-it also supports VaR, CVaR and the most common risk management tools. Pricing Partners is the only company completely mastering the chain of valuation, developing both its own pricing library and a valuation platform giving its clients very accurate and reliable valuation as a result of its intrinsic knowledge of the pricing tools. Pricing Partners solutions can be used by investment banks, buy side firms, hedge funds, financial departments, trading rooms and audit firms.
Pricing Partners has also signed numerous partnerships to distribute its technology with leading institutions like NYSE Euronext (for its independent valuation service via Prime Source), Misys (for its pricing library integrated into Summit), CMA or Lexifi. It is also a Microsoft IDEES partner, an IBM, Sun, Datasynapse partner. It is also a member of the grid research consortium GCPMF regrouping BNP Paribas, Calyon, Ecole Centrale, EDF, ENPC, the Inria, Natixis, Misys, Pars VI University and Supelec and a global coordinator of the Credinext consortium, in collaboration with PrimeSource, Lunalogic, the Ecole Polytechnique, the ENPC, the University of Marne La Vallée and the INRIA.
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