| June 09: Pricing Partners Selects Thomson Reuters Datascope |
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Pricing Partners Selects Thomson Reuters Datascope for its high quality market data Paris and London - Pricing Partners®, the independent valuation expert for financial derivatives and a leading provider of pricing analytics systems, announced today that it has definitely confirmed its choice of Thomson Reuters DataScope to feed its independent valuation platform with accurate market data. Pricing Partners uses Thomson Reuters market data to calculate independent valuations using its proprietary pricing model. In attempt to bring more transparency on OTC derivatives and structured products, Pricing Partners launched in October 2008 Price-it® online, an independent valuation platform based on its cutting edge models and analytics Price-it® library. Valuations are available for all major asset classes: interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, equities, inflation, commodities, life insurance, energy and hybrids and covers all common derivatives from plain vanilla to the most complex structured products and illiquid securities. The platform has been recently selected by Prime Source, a NYSE Euronext, to extend its valuation service offering. It has also been at the heart of a strategic technical partnership with Microsoft to provide a showcase for new .net technologies in the field of financial markets. Under the commercial agreement, Pricing Partners will use its Thomson Reuters DataScope to feed the valuation platform with high quality and accurate market data.Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners and former Goldman Sachs quant, said, "As our customers expand into new markets and geographies to trade a growing list of complex financial instruments, we must ensure that we have accurate and reliable market data. After testing various market data providers, we found that Thomson Reuters Datascope licence and market data were very reliable and could be the high quality fuel for our independent valuation platform with very large asset coverage." Pricing Partners has chosen Thomson Reuters DataScope after a rigorous assessment of the multiple benefits of Thomson Reuters market data both in terms of coverage and quality of market data. Pricing Partners compared the various solutions of the major market data provider and found Thomson Reuters DataScope substantially better compared to other major market data sources. About Thomson Reuters DataScope Select Reuters DataScope Select is a unique platform launched in 2006, which offers intuitive, cross-asset and timely access to all of Reuters reference and pricing data database as a request and retrieve service. Key customer benefits:
About Pricing Partners Set up by former professionals of the trading industry, that worked in institutions like Goldman Sachs, Natixis, Societe Generale, or HSBC, 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. CONTACT: Marketing Department, Pricing Partners
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