These awards granted by Structured Products magazine for worldwide solutions rank the best technology solutions for risk management and independent valuation on derivative products according to a survey. The survey was divided into several categories including best pricing and analytics, trading systems and risk management solution.

Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners comments “These rankings demonstrate the perception of the strong quality of our mathematical models and valuation solutions. Two things are of great interest in these rankings. First of all, we ranked simultaneous in most categories (we arrived second in commodities, credit and cross-asset categories, third in equities, and fourth in forex). This shows that our global solution, making us a global player, has caught attention in almost all assets classes. Second, we are the only nominee with less than 10 years of seniority (we will be 4 years old at the end of this year). This shows that the innovation and quality of our solution has largely offset our youth.”

Founded by former professionals of the trading floor, working in investment banks like Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Natixis or HSBC, Pricing Partners has become over the last two years a major player in both pricing models and recently independent valuation. In October 2008, it launched its Internet valuation platform, Price-it® Online, which affirms its leading place in the financial modelling as well as independent valuations provider. Designed for all major assets like Interest Rates, Equity, Inflation, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, and Life Insurance to Hybrid products, Price-it® comes either as a software tool or an Internet Platform, providing all the tools for the transparent valuation on structured products. Price-it® online uses cutting edge mathematical models together with a new language to describe the complexity of any structured products. 

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 and ActiveEon 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, supported by the cluster “Pole Finance Innovation”, in collaboration with Prime Source, a NYSE Euronext company, Lunalogic, the Ecole Polytechnique, the ENPC, the University of Marne La Vallée and the INRIA.

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