Credit Analysis Solution Hits North America in May
North American investors will gain a powerful research tool for a cross-asset class view of a security issuer, with next
month’s launch of Credit Analysis Solution via Thomson ONE Investment Management. Already available in Europe,
Credit Analysis Solution includes functionality and content that helps credit analysts and portfolio managers navigate
effortlessly from a list of potential investments, to the terms and conditions of a chosen bond, to the credit ratios of its
issuer.
• Credit Analysis Solution uniquely links the corporate bond, credit default swap (CDS) and stock of an issuer for a crossasset class relative value perspective.
• Functionality includes bond, CDS and index searching; overview screens and credit screens; charting with scatter plots,
unique maturity profiles and yield curves; pricing monitors; price-yield and option-adjusted spread (OAS) model
calculators; and European government bond composite price pages from Thomson TradeWeb.
• Bond content spans more than 100,000 outstanding debt securities for domestic and international bond markets across
a broad range of structures.
• Company and issuer-related data provides links from issue-to-parent-to-equity, and includes equity quotes, credit ratios,
bond spreads and more. Content covers entity and bond coding information, derived valuations, core terms and
conditions and corporate actions, current and up to ten years historical S&P ratings, and Moody’s current ratings on
over 40,000 issues.
• Pricing content includes end-of-day values for more than 30 markets from the industry’s most respected and reliable
participants, including iBoxx and ICMA; real-time and delayed pricing for individual bonds from market makers and
exchanges, including Thomson TradeWeb and iBoxx; and historical pricing back to the 1950s.
• More than 40,000 bond indices are available, including major global index families, such as JP Morgan, Lehman
Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Citi and iBoxx, key domestic indices, proprietary Thomson Datastream Benchmark
Government Bond Indices (with history back to the 1960s), and more than 100 CDS indices from iTraxx.
• Aggregated maturity profiles are provided at issuer and group level, displaying repayment schedules by issuer, currency,
bond type and coupon type.
With the increased focus on credit in the financial markets, and the growth of credit default swaps, Credit Analysis
Solution helps credit investors and portfolio managers conduct quality research to generate better returns and manage
their risk exposure.