NEWS

 

5/7/2008: Moody's Credit Quotes initiates coverage of the municipal MCDX index.

 

4/22/2008: Moody's Credit Quotes releases new analytics and security master functionality.

 

3/18/2008: Moody's Credit Quotes releases Cash Loan module.

 

1/28/2008: Moodys Acquires BQuotes, Further Expanding Securities Valuation Services.

 

10/29/2007: Thomson IFR And BQuotes Team Up on CDS News & Data.

 

10/25/2007: BQuotes captures the new CMBX72 index.

 

10/24/2007: BQuotes releases its UIN Issuer Master reference Database.

 

10/11/2007: BQuotes was present at the Structured Credit Exotics conference at One Hanover Square on Thursday, October 11th.

 

10/10/2007: LCDX tranches start trading today and BQuotes initiates coverage, consistent with capturing every new index on its first day of trading.

 

10/2/2007: NumeriX and BQuotes Put the Smarts in E-Mail Data Capture: Combined solution integrates analytics and e-mail for accurate pricing of complex trades.

 

9/12/2007: BQuotes Index Tranche seminar. Join us at the Harvard Club (35 W 44th street) at 5pm on Wednesday September 12th, to hear Jerzy Pawlowski (Primus) and Kent Sinmaz (GSA) talk about CDS index tranches: "Index Tranches: they are your Friends".

 

8/7/2007: S&P selects BestData™: Standard & Poor's selects BQuotes' data services.

 

7/20/2007: ABX72 started trading this week and is captured by BQuotes.

 

7/16/2007: We ran out of space! BQuotes moved its US headquarters to 11 Broadway, New York, NY 10004.

 

6/20/2007: Julius Baer signs up for BestQuotes™

 

6/18/2007: Cash ABS Mark-to-Market Data: BQuotes announces end of Day Mark-to-Market data for Cash ABSs.

 

6/1/2007: BQuotes Version 3.2: BQuotes releases version 3.2 containing fully customizable interfaces, multiple new views, enhanced speed and scalability, alert capabilities, and more.

 

5/22/2007: LCDX: LCDX8 US joins the list of indexes captured by BQuotes on the first day of its trading.

 

4/30/2007: OTC-Live Mobile™: BQuotes releases a custom application for the RIM Blackberry™ platform.
"Our customers wanted a way to monitor the CDS, Corporates, Converts and other OTC markets when they are away from their desks. Some of them have tried forwarding their emails to their blackberries, but the result was a full mailbox that became unusable. Our development team used the extensible BQuotes infrastructure and delivered a custom BQuotes application for the popular platform", said BQuotes VP of Business Development, Kristina Wiig.

 

3/26/2007: Variance Swaps: With the introduction of Variance Swaps BQuotes extends its coverage beyond the credit desks.
"We work with several large investment banks, and pretty much all of them are asking us to extend our coverage to their equity desks. Our Variance Swap module is filling this market need", said BQuotes CEO, Dr. Yiannis Tsiounis.

 

2/16/2007: ABX index tranches: BQuotes supports tranched ABX instruments, which began trading on 14 February. Following the example we set with the LCDS, ABX, and CMBX products, we strive to bring our customers coverage of new instruments and classes as soon as possible after they start trading, giving them a competitive advantage in the markets.

 

1/22/2007: CMBX index: The CMBX index with all its tranches is now captured by BQuotes.

 

12/15/2006: BQuotes Version 3.0: The latest version of BQuotes is here; easier to use, faster, more scalable.

 

10/06/2006: ABX index: The ABX index joins ABS cash for a rounded coverage of the ABS markets.

 

9/20/2006: Zero-Coupon tranches: Commemorating yet another succesfull Index Roll Date, BestQuotes initiates seamless coverage of Zero Coupon (aka "Principal-Only") tranches, or "ZONEs".

 

8/28/2006: Universal Ticker Support: BestQuotes' latest release supports any third party CDS or Bond tickers.

 

6/19/2006: Loan CDSs: Always ahead of the curve, BestQuotes announces the seamless integration of Loan CDSs into its CDS module, allowing market participants to enter the latest trend in the credit space.

 

4/3/2006: Bond Analytics: BestQuotes is delighted to announce its partnership with Moment Analytics which provides real-time Spread-to-Price-to-Yield bond computations.
"True to our modus operandi of presenting a complete market picture to our customers, we have collaborated with the leading provider of real-time advanced analytics to offer a more rounded bond component" said Yiannis Tsiounis, CEO of BestQuotes, for the latest addition to the BestQuotes bond module.

 

1/30/2006: Introducing BestData: closing bond and CDS prices delivered the same day, immediately after the closing and sourced from more than 30 primary dealers worldwide.

 

1/16/2006: BestQuotes introduces support for Asset Back Securities/Mortgages.
According to our customers
"Even the largest sell-side firms do not have any type of electronic platform to obtain real time ABS or MBS data from".

 

1/9/2006: Running to upfront: BestQuotes release 3.7.2 handles CDS running to upfront computations.

 

12/12/2005: Angelo, Gordon & Co signs up for BQuotes ASP.
Angelo, Gordon & Co, a leading investment management firm, founded in 1988 and managing approximately $8.5 billion, chose BQuotes for its trading and risk functions.

 

11/14/2005: Highbridge chooses BestQuotes.
Highbridge Capital Management, LLC. is one of the most sophisticated hedge funds, managing in excess of $8 billion.

"BQuotes is delivering a fully automated solution without costly and time-delayed human intervention and with excellent support. It has become an important component of our trading infrastucture.", said Jonathan Zhukovsky, Highbridge Managing Director and CTO.

 

11/1/2005: Peter Freund heads Board of Advisors.
We are excited to announce that Mr. Freund accepted a position as head of our advisory board. A former advisor to the CEO of Bank One, and bringing a tremendous wealth of experience from the trading and the banking industries, Mr. Freund is our head strategist and a great believer in BestQuotes' mission.

 

10/17/2005: BestQuotes UK to be run by Yiannis Fitsakis.
A recent Oxford MBA graduate with 10 years of consulting experience, Yiannis is heading BestQuotes' London office. Before embarking on his MBA, Yiannis headed the EMEA risk management operations for KBR (Halliburton).
Yiannis also holds a MSc in Construction Management and Engineering Research, and a BSc in Civil Engineering.

 

9/12/2005: BestQuotes announces ASP model.
Recognizing the difficulty and cost of setting up, managing and maintaining an in-house parsing system, BestQuotes is now offering a hosted (ASP) model, with no software or hardware requirements at the client side. Clients can decide to move back-and-forth from an ASP to an in-house solution at their convenience.

 

6/10/2005: BestQuotes announces version 2.2, parsing CDS tranches.
Leading the way on the correlation bandwagon, BestQuotes announces its new engine which parses CDS Tranches, complete with the reference index level, delta exchange, implied correlation, base correlation, and axe and size information.

 

4/29/2005: BestQuotes announces the addition of Convertible Bond parsing.
With convertible bond quotes being high in the list of client priorities, BestQuotes released today version 1.9, which parses Convertible Bond quotes, including the reference stock price for every quoted issue. As with previous releases, no infrastructure changes were required by the clients, and the upgrades were performed seamlessly overnight by the BestQuotes staff.

 

3/14/2005: BestQuotes announces the addition of Index quotes in version 1.6 of its engine.
All current clients are going to be provided with a free upgrade of the BestQuotes engine, which parses corporate indexes, including HiVol, IG, HY and ITRAXX indexes.

 

3/7/2005: Geoff Wolf to join BestQuotes as Head of Sales.
With more than 10 years of experience in Financial Market sales, Geoff will head BestQuotes' sales team with integrity and proven ability to bring superior value to his clients. "Creating partners, not clients" is Geoff's modus operandi, and it reflects BestQuotes' mentality as an organization.

 

2/14/2005: Dr. George Zavaliagkos joins BestQuotes' advisory board.
An authority in speech recognition and with significant experience in the design of real-time A.I. Systems both in academia and in the industry, George brings to BestQuotes' research team a new dimension that combines pragmatic and state-of-the-art approaches to BestQuotes' natural language processing systems.
George is currently running the research & development team of eScription and he holds a Ph.D. in Speech Recognition, and a MS and BS in Electrical Engineering.

 

2/7/2005: Daniel Marein-Efron joins BestQuotes' advisory board.
A Harvard MBA graduate, Daniel has demonstrated that he can provide strategic advantages to a variety of businesses across several different markets. Daniel's extensive experience in the banking and finance industries, his credibility in these markets, and his strategic ideas add a top advisory member to BestQuotes' team.

 

1/31/2005: BestQuotes releases version 1.5, parsing Corporate Bonds.
The first major update of the BestQuotes engine, parsing Corporate Bond quotes is made available to BestQuotes clients. Client feedback was essential for maintaining versatility and ease of use and BestQuotes wishes to thank its clients for their cooperation.

 

1/17/2005: BestQuotes hires Cameron Gregory as its Lead Architect.
With 15 years of experience in architecting and hands-on developing of complex systems, in both large enterprises (AT&T) and small startups, Cameron's commitment promises to maximize BestQuotes' potential.

 

8/30/2004: BestQuotes version 1.0 installed, parsing CDS quotes.
BestQuotes announced today the first client installation of its parsing engine.