Standard & Poor's to Provide Bond Pricing Data and Research Through Gmarkets Platform

NEW YORK, July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's today announced an agreement with Gmarkets, Inc., a provider of global fixed income and capital markets data, to provide S&P's bond pricing, ratings research and terms and conditions data and analytics to Gmarkets customers.  

Under the agreement, Gmarkets Pilot Financial GPS subscribers can get access to Standard & Poor's data and research, with links back to deeper research provided on the S&P Global Credit Portal investor analytics platform.  The Standard & Poor's research offering includes analysis and commentaries from S&P Ratings and S&P Valuations and Risk Strategies across the fixed income marketplace.

"Amidst heightened volatility, fixed income investors need the most reliable, up-to-date valuations data and ratings research available to help make confident portfolio decisions," said Sonia Kim, Managing Director, S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies.  "By teaming with Gmarkets, we are helping to streamline the flow of information in the fixed income markets."

"Gmarkets was founded to enable transparency and liquidity in the capital markets by providing superior content required for trading decisions," said Robin Hanlon, President and CEO of Gmarkets Inc.  "Partnering with Standard & Poor's to deliver global bond and money market ratings, valuations and terms and conditions as part of the overall Gmarkets product offering is just another way that we are striving to be the leader in bond and money market information and real time data."  

S&P's Global Credit Portal, is a dynamic, web-based platform that brings together an abundance of content, data and assessment tools for portfolio credit officers and other financial market professionals from Standard & Poor's and other leading information providers.  

More information on the S&P Global Credit Portal is available here: www.standardandpoors.com/ratingsdirect.

About Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices 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 over 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit www.standardandpoors.com

About Gmarkets

Established in 2004 in Toronto, Gmarkets is a financial market data and technology company providing real-time market data in all asset classes and execution capability for foreign exchange through Gmarkets Pilot Financial GPS, an Internet-delivered desktop application and Gmarkets Feed, an Internet delivered API and XML feed.  

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Bond 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 (1) fixed-income evaluations and (2) 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.

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