Pricing Partners Number One in Structured Products Technology Pricing and Analytics Rankings 2010

Pricing Partners (www.pricingpartners.com), the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today that it has been ranked Number One in all Pricing and Analytics categories in the Structured Products Technology Rankings 2010. More specifically, it has won six number one positions in Commodity, Credit, Equity, Cross-asset, FX and Interest Rates. The result of the rankings has been published in the June issue of Structured Products magazine.

The ranking organized by Structured Products magazine lists each year the best technology solutions for structured products' valuation and risk management according to a survey. This year, Pricing Partners won a perfect score, being number one in all Pricing and Analytics categories. This demonstrated the recognition of Pricing Partners, now viewed as the leading provider for mathematical models and pricing capabilities in the derivatives and structured products community.

Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners comments: "This is one of the best days in my life. I could not imagine something better. We have achieved the first prize of such a prestigious ranking. This shows that the strong team work has been rewarded. I would like to thank our teams for their hard work and commitment. We will endeavour even more to enhance our solutions and maintain the leadership position in the market."

About Pricing Partners

Set up by former professionals of the trading industry, Pricing Partners offers accurate solutions for derivatives products valuation, pricing tools and risk analytics. Pricing Partners delivers its solutions in two different means. Through Price-it Online, a SaaS platform, Pricing Partners provides independent valuation from the vanilla to the most exotic financial products on most assets (Interest Rates, Fixed Income, Equity, Inflation, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Life Insurance and Hybrid products). On the other hand, Pricing Partners develops and commercializes Price-it Excel, an analytic and independent pricing library using a generic payoff language description which allows the pricing of virtually any financial derivatives. Price-it also supports VaR, CVaR and the most common risk management tools. Pricing Partners masters the chain of valuation and develops its own pricing library and valuation platform. Its intrinsic knowledge and understanding of the pricing methodologies/models enable its clients to achieve highly accurate and reliable valuation on their derivatives books. Pricing Partners solutions can be used by investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, corporations, pension funds, fund administrators and audit firms.

Pricing Partners has also signed numerous partnerships to deliver its technology through local distributor like Belatos in Hong Kong, as well as with leading institutions like Thomson Reuters (for its pricing library integrated into Kondor+ Structured Products), Misys (for its pricing library integrated into Summit), CMA, Fitch Solutions or Lexifi. It is a Microsoft IDEES partner, an IBM, Sun, Datasynapse and ActiveEon partner. Furthermore, it is a member of the grid research consortium GCPMF uniting BNP Paribas, Calyon, Ecole Centrale, EDF, ENPC, INRIA, Natixis, Misys, Paris VI University and Supelec and a global coordinator of the Credinext consortium, in collaboration with Thomson Reuters, Lunalogic, Ecole Polytechnique, ENPC, University of Marne La Vallee and INRIA.

Pricing Partners holds offices in Paris, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Pricing Partners is the award winner of Structured Products Technology Rankings 2010, Number One in Pricing and Analytics Category.

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