MCGRAW HILL FINANCIAL INC 
By New RatingsDirect(R) provides greater access to integrated credit research, market information, and risk analytics.
Incorporating feedback from thousands of global RatingsDirect users including credit analysts, portfolio managers, risk managers, treasurers, originators and traders, the new solution will provide sector, sub-sector, industry and entity views to help conduct surveillance, monitor counterparty risk and perform credit analysis.
The new RatingsDirect Global Credit Portal:
-- Aggregates intelligence at the sector, sub-sector and industry level
with critical insights including recent developments, ratings migrations
and distributions, biggest movers by Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads,
and industry snapshots
-- Offers deep-dive data at the entity, instrument and deal level for
structured assets including expanded collateral and performance data and
graphical views of deal participants
-- Compares S&P credit ratings to Derived Ratings that incorporate CDS
spreads
-- Provides additional research content based on market movements and views
including Standard & Poor's Market, Credit and Risk Strategies,
which specializes in cross-asset class research, and Leveraged
Commentary & Data, which concentrates on the leveraged loan market
place
-- Enables enhanced portfolio surveillance with user-directed tracking and
peer comparison tools
-- Facilitates the process of monitoring developments on specific credits
with the ability to integrate third-party news from the trade press,
industry media and corporations
"The new RatingsDirect will serve as a portal giving direct access to Standard & Poor's proprietary credit and structured asset content. It is focused on optimizing the user experience to help make analytical efforts as relevant and efficient as possible," said
About Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates, located 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.
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. The unit has no access to non- public information received by other units of Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's does not trade on its own account.
SOURCE Standard & Poor's
