NEW YORK, May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Market Intelligence, a leading provider of multi-asset class research data and insights, has won the "Best Counterparty Data Provider" category at the 2016 Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards. The annual awards are based on a survey of industry professionals.

S&P Global Market Intelligence was recognized for its robust counterparty data and analytics capabilities, which are part of the firm's Risk Services offerings and can be found in its Credit Analytics suite. The S&P Global Market Intelligence Credit Analytics offering provides an end-to-end, integrated workflow solution, available via desktop, an Excel Plug-in and enterprise delivery channels, which includes the ability to score both rated and unrated companies and utilize surveillance dashboards for monitoring credit, investment and counterparty relationships.

"We are honored to be recognized by the industry for a solution set that is so fundamental to effective risk management," said James Elder, Director, Risk Services, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "Counterparty data has been one of the biggest initiatives for our company in recent years, and it has really accelerated in the past year. We are committed to providing the deepest intelligence available on counterparty exposures to give our customers a truly holistic picture of relative credit health and overall portfolio risk and will continue to innovate new solutions in this space."

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