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Mark-to-Market Pricing Service
Reuters LPC's European Market-to-Market Pricing Service brings much needed
transparency to the European loan investor community. Backed by over 20
major dealers, we provide loan investors and portfolio managers with weekly
valuations for over 1,700 leveraged and investment grade loans originated
in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). The service utilises strict data
verification and audit procedures managed by Reuters LPC's staff of secondary
loan analysts, to provide investors with confidential portfolio-wide mark-to-market
loan valuations that are distributed via our secure loan platform - LoanConnector.
Why LPC's European Mark-to-Market
Pricing Service? Our Reputation...
Loan Market
Veterans: Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation (Reuters
LPC) has been providing news, data, and analytics to the syndicated
bank loan market and associated markets for 20 years. With Reuters
acquisition of LPC in 1993, we began comprehensive loan coverage
of the EMEA market. Over the last two years LPC has worked with
over 20 major European secondary loan dealers to deliver a weekly
loan composite. The demand from thousands of weekly recipients
for this composite has demonstrated the market's interest in
transparency. Current recipients of Reuters LPC's European composites
include broker/dealers, institutional and retail bank loan investors,collateralized
debt and loan obligations, portfolio and investment managers,
hedge funds, insurance companies, and loan and credit derivative
operations.
Objective, Independent Party:
Reuters LPC is a third party, independent provider of composite
prices. We do not make a market in bank loans, and are not directly
or indirectly involved in the buying or selling of bank loans.
This makes us completely market independent.
Established Affiliations:
Reuters LPC's prominence in the market has secured strong relationships
with leading dealers/traders. The European secondary loan trading
community has teamed up with LPC to bring transparency to the
European Market.
The Service...
Unparalleled
Comprehensive Coverage: Working with a group of 20 major
European loan dealers, LPC is able to deliver comprehensive
secondary prices for the EMEA loan markets.
Custom Tailored Service:
We work with individual clients to identify their needs and
deliver superior customized service. We offer composite price
calculations, multiple delivery options including official email,
FTP, etc. and variable file formats for ease of internal system
integration. We give you what you need and deliver it in the
format you request.
Guaranteed Data Integrity
and Accuracy:Daily systematic review of all prices
through extensive audit procedures is in place. To further ensure
the integrity and quality of each price, LPC's team of experienced
loan market analysts make use of state of the art audit procedures,
drawing on their extensive market knowledge as well as LPC's
comprehensive database of deal terms and conditions, covenants,
and other descriptive information.
Price Challenge Process:
Clients have direct access to a team of dedicated, knowledgeable,
pricing service analysts. Clients can call their assigned analysts
to ask questions about a price. If a price is questioned, LPC
verifies all pricing inputs directly with the price provider(s)
and the outcome will be relayed to the client the same day.
IN ADDITION TO LPC'S EUROPEAN MARK-TO-MARKET
PRICING SERVICE, SECONDARY LOAN MARKET PARTICIPANTS CAN GET FURTHER VALUE
FROM LPC'S…
DataLink:Combines the Reuters LPC European Mark-to-Market
Pricing Service indicative loan prices with LPC's wealth of up-to-date loan
terms and conditions. DataLink enables you to analyze your portfolio along
various elements such as borrower industries, credit rating and watch status,
current base rates and spreads, fees, maturity dates, amortization schedules,
deal and facility amounts, borrower sales size and much more.
Secondary Market Intelligence (SMi) 1.5: SMi is the secondary loan
market's most comprehensive and powerful online tool. It provides secondary
loan market participants with up to the minute secondary news, data and
analytics needed to make well informed buy/sell/hold decisions. Click
here to find out more
Real-Time News and Analytics (formerly known as Gold Sheets Real-Time):Keeps you on top of the market with a wealth of news, data and analytics
on the EMEA loan markets delivered via Real-Time News & Analytics
on LoanConnector. Click here
to find out more