EDI Collaborates With Derivative Partners To Provide Independent Valuations

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Exchange Data International (EDI) team up with Zurich based Derivative Partners to offer a comprehensive independent structured products valuation service

London, United Kingdom, March 5, 2013 - (PressReleasePoint) - Exchange Data International (EDI), a well-established provider of Security Reference and Corporate Actions data, today announced its partnership with Derivative Partners, a leading provider of independent risk management and valuation services of structured products, to provide valuations for a wide range of structured products and complex derivative instruments.

The current service covers result sets combining various asset classes including equity, indices, FX and commodities, payoffs and pricing models.

Derivative Partners operates a scalable architecture for providing daily independent valuations, currently calculating over 200’000 instruments using an independent database and proprietary state-of-the-art valuation models. In combination with a flexible approach for integrating new payoffs and pricing models this allows to meet the intensified regulatory demands for transparency that clients are faced with.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO at EDI says: "We have noticed an increased demand from our clients for independent portfolio valuations and more especially for complex financial derivatives and structured products over the last years. We are very pleased to have partnered with Derivative Partners and provide our clients with a reliable and impartial valuation solution that will help them meet the transparency standards.”

Andreas Kropf, Managing Director of Derivative Partners Research, adds: "We have been continuously developing and enhancing our coverage of complex derivative instruments. The partnership with EDI allows us to bring our valuation capabilities to a larger audience.”
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Contact
Andreas Kropf, Managing Director    
Derivative Partners Research AG
andreas.kropf@derivativepartners.com
Tel. +41 (0)43 305 05 30
 
Anais Bresle, Marketing Manager
Exchange Data International
a.bresle@exchange-data.com
Tel: +44 (0) 207 324 0050
 

About Exchange Data International
Exchange Data International (EDI) is the premier provider of state-of-the-art back office securities data and administrative data, with an established global reputation for the highest quality and accuracy. EDI specializes in providing original solutions to securities houses' problems.

EDI covers all major markets with a special emphasis on emerging and frontiers markets and undertakes research at clients’ requests. EDI constantly develops its suite of products and its geographic coverage.

Based in London, with offices in New York and Mumbai, EDI supports hundreds of investment institutions worldwide. EDI has a customer centred attitude, making it easily approachable and flexible.
For more information, please visit www.exchange-data.com

About Derivative Partners Research AG
Derivative Partners Research AG is the leading, independent information provider for structured products in Switzerland. We offer our clients added value through high-quality services by providing, for example, master data, key figures, risk management and valuations, reports and research services, IT services and visualisation tools. This makes handling and investment in structured products simpler.

Derivative Partners Research AG is an independent entity within the Derivative Partners group. For more information, please visit www.derivativepartners.com