Options specialist SuperDerivatives has signed an agreement with Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations to form a strategic sales and marketing alliance. The venture will provide valuations for a wide range of derivative contracts. The companies say their offering will help market participants manage their investment and operational risk and meet comply with regulatory requirements compliance more easily.
The joint offering will use both companies’ models and market data-based pricing services to provide independent valuations for arrange of instruments, including vanillas and exotics. “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,” says David Gershon, SuperDerivatives’ chief executive officer.