article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources pricing partners cie news newspapers books scholar jstor free images february 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message pricing partners your independent valuation expert type private industry financial founded paris sep 2005 headquarters paris london hong kong paris france area served europe asia key people eric benhamou xavier deschamps owner thomson reuters number of employees 25 website http www.pricingpartners.com footnotes references 1 pricing partners founded in 2005 is a thomson reuters company that is both a financial software editor and a valuation service company . it is headquartered in paris with offices in paris london and hong kong . the company provides pricing models analytics and independent valuation for the financial services market . the company has been identified by microsoft france as one of the promising french startups that uses microsoft technologies for its software development . the coverage of its financial library is on all major asset classes . this encompasses derivatives on asset classes like interest rates credit equity inflation foreign exchange commodity life insurance and hybrids . since 2012 it also provides independent calculation and valuation on proprietary algorithmic indexes . contents 1 product 2 history 3 competitors 4 references 5 external links product edit the product is addressing the needs for more transparency on financial products . pricing partners has developed an online platform entitled price it that provides independent valuation on otc derivatives . the computations are based on scientific methods with mathematical probabilistic models models extending the black scholes model . 2 history edit after a phd in financial mathematics at the london school of economics and years of research in the fixed income exotics trading desk at goldman sachs eric benhamou a mathematician returned to france to head a quantitative research group at natixis . in 2005 he created pricing partners to offer independent valuation models with its primary customer natixis . 3 in 2007 pricing partners decided to build the first french platform for independent valuation of derivatives in a project supported by the french cluster finance innovation to promote the paris market place and compete with the city of london . 4 in 2008 pricing partners unveiled a new version of its software that ran on a computing grid to reduce dramatically the computing time . 5 in 2009 microsoft france identified pricing partners as one of the promising startups to develop software in finance with the use of the latest microsoft technology . pricing partners was accepted in the idees program . 6 the same year axa hedging services selects pricing partners to value part of its fixed income positions . 7 in 2010 societe generale corporate & investment banking taps pricing partners to provide independent valuation on its structured products . 8 in 2011 this company received the award for the best pricing and analytics solution for structured products in all asset classes . this award was given by structured products magazine . 9 the same year icbc the largest bank worldwide signed with pricing partners . 10 in 2012 pricing partners receive a new distinction ranking by the structured products magazine in the category of structured products valuation software . the same year pricing partners started commercializing an independent valuation solution for proprietary and algorithmic indexes and tapped natixis . 11 in 2013 pricing partners continues to be named to the structured products magazine ranking in the structured products valuation software . 12 in june 2013 the company is acquired by the thomson reuters group . 13 finally in december pricing partners is named the most innovative specialist vendor of the year by risk magazine 14 competitors edit pricing partners main competitors are for its software business numerix sungard fastval fincad for its valuation business bloomberg markit sungard fastval prism valuation superderivatives societe generale security services references edit company overview of pricing partners sas . businessweek . bloomberg . retrieved 10 september 2012 . pricing partners makes the management of financial product much easier . 01 informatique magazine . 9 february 2007 . history of pricing partners inter r gions n 270 pdf . ensae . ensae magazine . february 2007 . the finance innovation cluster on the road . agefi . 12 july 2007 . pricing partners to leverage grid computing ressources . agefi . 26 june 2008 . young french company leads the way in financial software innovation . microsoft . 1 september 2009 . axa hedging services selected pricing partners . agefi . 28 april 2009 . pricing partners selected by soci t g n rale corporate & investment banking to provide independent valuation of its derivatives . a team . 20 may 2010 . technology vendor rankings 2011 the results . risk magazine . 1 april 2011 . icbc asia moved to pricing partners derivatives pricing analytics . asia trading . may 2011 . natixis taps pricing partners for index calculation . waters technology magazine . 12 july 2012 . structured products technology rankings 2013 . structured products magazine . march 2013 . thomson reuters acquires otc derivatives pricing analytics provider pricing partners . thomson reuters . june 2013 . pricing partners named the most innovative specialist vendor of the year by risk magazine . thomson reuters . december 2013 . external links edit pricing partners website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pricing partners cie & oldid 722358998 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