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Recognizing the need of financial markets for readily accessible and comprehensive pricing capabilities across a broad spectrum of cash, structured and derivative instruments, Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. (SPSE), a leading global provider of independent securities evaluations, and SuperDerivatives®, a leading provider of derivatives pricing, revaluation and risk management solutions, today announced that they have signed an agreement to establish a strategic sales and marketing alliance to combine their valuation offerings for fixed income securities (cash and structured products) and all major OTC (over the counter) and exchange- traded derivative asset classes into one sales and marketing channel.
This new alliance will offer the broadest coverage of asset classes and geographical reach available, combining the technological and market strengths of both companies. The joint offering will help market participants manage investment and operational risk and regulatory compliance more easily and effectively across a vast range of securities.
“Our clients increasingly demand more global coverage and depth for their derivatives portfolio valuations. In SuperDerivatives we believe we have found the ideal alliance partner to create the most comprehensive and robust global coverage possible from one offering,” said Lou Eccleston, Executive Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s. “For more than 35 years, Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations has been a leader in providing daily independent, mark-to-market valuations for market participants of all sectors. Joining forces with SuperDerivatives teams us with a leader in OTC and exchange-traded derivatives valuation and together we will form the largest independent revaluation service in the combined cash and derivative market place.”
The joint Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations-SuperDerivatives (S&P-SD) offering will provide both companies’ models and market data-based pricing services to provide independent valuations for global instruments, including government, municipal and corporate bonds, syndicated loans, asset and mortgaged backed securities and money market instruments. Additionally, the services will cover “vanilla” and “exotic” OTC derivatives as well as exchange-traded derivatives on major asset classes including foreign currency, interest rates, commodities, energy, equities and credit.
“This commercial venture between SuperDerivatives and Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations is aimed at enabling our customers from developed and emerging markets to effectively value the widest range of products in a single offering,” said David Gershon, SuperDerivatives Chief Executive Officer. “Whether they are from the buy or sell side, our customers will benefit from a ‘one stop shop’ experience with the objective of delivering the most accurate and reliable valuation service with significant economy of scale advantages. I believe that this alliance will form a new global standard for independent valuation service.”
About Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. (“SPSE”), a wholly owned subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., provides independent fixed-income evaluations on nearly 3 million securities. It also distributes to its client base pricing data and equity pricing services of other unaffiliated firms, including SuperDerivatives. Prices of firms other than those of SPSE are the responsibility of those firms and not SPSE and are produced under the firms’ methodologies and policies and procedures, not those of SPSE. Analytic services and products provided by Standard & Poor’s are the result of separate activities designed to preserve the independence and objectivity of each analytic process. Standard & Poor’s has established policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality of non-public information received during each analytic process.
About Standard & Poor’s
Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world’s foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates, located in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor’s is an essential part of the world’s financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com
Standard & Poor's and its affiliates provide a wide range of services to, or relating to, many organizations, including issuers of securities, investment advisers, broker-dealers, investment banks, other financial institutions and financial intermediaries, and accordingly may receive fees or other economic benefits from those organizations, including organizations whose securities or services they may recommend, rate, include in model portfolios, evaluate or otherwise address.
About SuperDerivatives
SuperDerivatives is transforming the world of options by introducing transparency to major traded derivative classes including foreign currency, interest rates, equities, commodities, energy and credit. Aiming to provide prices that reflect the inter-dealer market has led the company’s web-based, market-calibrated platforms to become widely accepted by market participants as the benchmark for options pricing. Trading professionals on both the buy and sell side benefit daily from SuperDerivatives’ unique combination of unbiased, aggregated market data and sophisticated modeling techniques.
The company also provides fully fledged risk management systems, an on-line trading platform, award winning derivatives data, and independent portfolio revaluation services. Customers include leading banks, hedge funds, asset managers, custodians and hedge fund administrators.
