Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to join the APVIF (Association professionnelle des valorisateurs d’instruments financiers), French financial instruments valuation providers Association, as a founding member.

Due to the impact of financial crisis on derivatives and the lack of transparency of the financial instruments, the French financial instruments valuation providers joined together and formed the association. They aim to restore financial market confidence through a better understanding on the derivatives, the importance of independent valuation and the regulatory bodies.  

Eric Benhamou, CEO at Pricing Partners states “We feel very happy and honored to join the APVIF. The independent valuation for structured products plays a vital role in the derivatives market. Pricing Partners will work closely with other founding members to provide best-practice valuation methods and ultimate transparency to the financial industry.”  

Francis Cornut, CEO at DeriveXperts, President of the APVIF commented “I have known Pricing Partners’ CEO for years. I am very pleased to see Pricing Partners joining the APVIF. Pricing Partners’ participation to the APVIF will bring dynamism, energy and ideas to the association and help us promote independent valuation to higher standards. I welcome warmly Pricing Partners.”  

About the APVIF 

Founding members are DeriveXperts, Finance Innovation, Lexifi, Momentum Consulting, Pilcer & Associés, Pricing Partners, Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) and Zéliade Systems. 

More information on www.apvif.org 

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 with full transparency.  

Pricing Partners delivers:

-Price-it® Online, an independent revaluation website for vanilla to the most exotic financial products

-Price-it® Excel, a latest generation financial library using a payoff language and cutting edge models 

-Price-it® Source code, an extensive and professional development platform

-Price-it® API, a platform for seamless integration of pricers and analytics into STP solutions

-Price-it® for Kondor+ Suite®, a pricing library integrated into Thomson Reuters Kondor+ Suite®

-Price-it® for Summit MUST®, a financial library integrated into Misys Summit 

Pricing Partners offers cover commodity, credit, equity, fixed income, fx, funds, inflation, interest rates, life insurance and hybrids OTC products. They are widely adopted by investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, corporations, pension funds, fund administrators and audit firms.

Pricing Partners holds offices in Paris, London and Hong Kong. Its solutions have been ranked the overall winner in Pricing and Analytics by Structured Products Magazine in 2010 and 2011.

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