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Moody's Credit Quotes is accelerating the way business is conducted in the Over The Counter markets by providing price discovery and data to traders & risk managers. Moody's Credit Quotes offers four product lines for Credit and Equity OTC market participants:

  • BestQuotes: Real-time Price-Discovery for the OTC markets
  • BestData: Mark-to-Market data, including intra-day snapshots, for OTC instruments
  • BestValuations: portfolio evaluations on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or one-time basis for OTC traded instruments
  • UIN: (pronounced "WIN"). A reference issuer master database unifying CDS, ABS, corporate bonds

 

 

OVERVIEW

BestQuotes™ is a comprehensive solution for real-time extraction of Over-The-Counter ("OTC") corporate credit, credit derivative and equity derivative prices from emails and spreadsheets.

BestQuotes' extracted real-time market data dramatically increase transparency in the OTC markets and constitute an invaluable productivity tool for traders as well as the middle & back offices.

 
BestData™ provides same-day closing corporate credit and credit derivative prices sourced from more than 50 dealers and brokers worldwide. BestData is the distillation of over 200,000 unique market observations per day.
 
BestValuations™ lets our experienced credit analysts value your portfolio of corporate bonds, convertible bonds, CDS, Indexes, Tranches and Options based on true market observations. Our extensive data allows us to price more than 5,000 corporate issues that are not included in TRACE as well as more than 1,500 credit derivatives.
 
UIN™ is a reference issuer master database containing unique identifiers for corporate and sovereing credit derivatives and bonds, which facilitates mark-to-market pricing as well as trading.

Moody's Credit Quotes supports the following asset classes:

  • Credit Default Swaps, (including LCDS, PCDS, Recoveries)
  • Credit Indexes, (CDX, ITraxx, EM, ABX, CMBX, LevX, LCDX)
  • Index Tranches, (CDX, iTraxx, EM, TABX, including tranchlets)
  • Index Optionss, (CDX, iTraxx)
  • Asset Back Securities/Mortgages,
  • Corporate bonds (IG & HY),
  • Sovereigns/Municipals,
  • Convertible bonds,
  • Bank loans.
An enterprise-class suite used by asset managers of all sizes, from hedge funds to investment banks, Moody's Credit Quotes is reliable, intuitive, fast and cost-effective.

BestQuotes' analysts and integrated A.I. engine detect and correct large credit movements and/or typos in real-time.

With Moody's Credit Quotes you can:

  • instantly see the best prices in the market,
  • see the intra-day movements of any issue at the click of a button,
  • build historical graphs of market prices,
  • price your portfolio in real time,
  • use real market quotes to build VaR measures or Stop Loss measures,
  • get real-time price or spread quotes and CDS curves into your spreadsheets.