S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies Expands Cross-Asset Class Price Evaluation Research Capabilities on its Global Credit Portal

NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor's that provides users with market intelligence and analytic insight for risk-driven investment analysis, in an effort to provide easily accessible information has added a number of enhancements to Valuations on the Global Credit Portal.  

The new enhancements will make it easier for customers to gain a better perspective on how we interpret yield changes in some of the markets around the world.  These enhancements include expanded yield curve data that incorporates Valuations and Risk Strategies interpretation of market changes across US, Europe and Asia.  Another new feature enables terms & conditions data users to have a direct link to both the EMMA and EDGAR databases for official statements and secondary market disclosures.  

Improvements have also been made to the Global Credit Portal's structured finance advanced search capabilities by adding the ability to search using Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities and Whole Business Securitizations as the asset class designation.  Another major enhancement is the ability to download current pricing files using either a list of identifiers across asset classes or by using the advanced search function.  Historical pricing files can also be downloaded from a single identifier or from a list of identifiers across asset classes for a single date or range of dates.

"Investors want more information, in an easy-to-use format available across multiple asset classes," said Frank Ciccotto, Senior Vice President, S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies.  "By increasing the information displayed around our evaluations and improving the access to underlying research, we are helping customers improve price defensibility and transparency."

About S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies

S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies delivers a portfolio of products and services to investors that serve the global financial markets by providing market intelligence and analytic insight for risk driven investment analysis, including for the debt, structured finance, derivative and credit markets.  S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies is analytically and editorially independent from any other analytical group at Standard & Poor's, including Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.  The unit has no access to non- public information received by other units of Standard & Poor's.  Standard & Poor's does not trade on its own account.

Evaluated pricing is provided by Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations, Inc. (SPSE), a part of S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies and a registered investment adviser with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.  SPSE provides fixed-income evaluations and analyses of certain U.S. and European fixed income securities using its proprietary Risk-to-Price scoring methodology.  SPSE is analytically and editorially independent from any other analytical group at Standard & Poor's.

Products and services provided by SPSE may not be available in all countries or jurisdictions.

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