S&P Launches Global Data Solutions, Providing Financial Institutions with an Enterprise Solution Integrating Unique and Comprehensive Data Sets

NEW YORK, Nov 09, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS), an analytics and research unit separate from S&P's ratings business, today announced the launch of Standard & Poor's Global Data Solutions, a comprehensive, enterprise-level data feed solution that brings together a wide range of data and analytics to allow financial institutions to evaluate and monitor the financial instruments in their portfolios. For more information or to subscribe to Global Data Solutions, click here.

Addressing the investor's need for a more robust, cross-asset approach to assessing risk and value in their portfolios, the new S&P data feed solution combines the full scope of S&P's market intelligence, from credit ratings and ratings research to equity corporate actions to structured finance performance data. Global Data Solutions combines high quality market data from across Standard & Poor's investment, credit and risk evaluation research units, providing single-source access to the following data streams: -- Standard & Poor's Credit Ratings and Ratings Research -- Cross Reference Services & Security Master -- Ownership Hierarchies -- Fixed Income Terms & Conditions -- Bond Notification Services -- Equity Corporate Actions -- U.S. RMBS Pool and Loan Level Performance Data -- Synthetic CDO Reference Obligor Data -- S&P Proprietary Analytics "We developed Global Data Solutions to help investors keep up with the rapidly increasing demands of the financial marketplace, including analytical and risk management, regulation, and pre to post trade operations," said Jonathan Reeve, Managing Director, Standard & Poor's. "Access to its specialized content, including Standard & Poor's exclusive data sets, is available through customizable and portfolio-style data packages as well as a variety of delivery formats including API's." said Rui Carvalho, Managing Director, Global Data Solutions.

Included in the customizable data feed is the U.S. RMBS Edition, which provides individual loan-level data on the underlying collateral in mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The RMBS data feed is based on the universe of Standard & Poor's credit-rated U.S. RMBS deals; which includes subprime, Alt-A, prime jumbo and additional collateral types.

About Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management Services Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management Services 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. Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management Services are performed separately from any other analytic activity of Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's does not trade on its own account.

About Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's, 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 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.

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