Independent Valuations & Price Verification

Empower valuation teams to automate workflows and manage collaboration efficiently

CMA's valuations platform for OTC financial instruments, CMA NAVigate™, delivers independent valuations and empowers fund administrators, custodians and buy-side financial institutions to institute a transparent, efficient and consensus-based approach to the mark-to-market process.

Its accessible, interactive environment gives participants in the valuations process the collaborative tools, pricing transparency and real-time support they require to formalise the process of valuing OTC credit, interest rate and FX derivatives.

Fund administrators

CMA NAVigate™ puts the valuation team in control of the valuations process, enabling it to respond efficiently to enquiries and manage client portfolios with confidence and ease. The valuation team is able to :

• access underlying pricing inputs and receive real time IM challenge support from CMA
• automate the valuation process via web-based tools for scheduling uploads, resolving upload errors, creating and distributing reports
• simplify management of end-client portfolios through the creation of client-specific sub-portfolios and reporting
• manage client challenges and overrides flexibly by providing clients with access to view valuations and use CMA NAVigate™'s override management tool.

Hedge funds, alternative investment firms, banks, asset managers

CMA NAVigate™ enables buy-side financial institutions to enhance their process for valuing the OTC financial instruments they hold on their books. Back office teams are able to:

• access pricing inputs for all valuations and receive real-time IM challenge support from CMA
• automate the valuation process by scheduling uploads, resolving upload errors, creating and distributing reports
• facilitate and manage front-office collaboration in the mark-to-market process via a centralised web-platform, with override management tools, export-to-Excel™ capabilities and bespoke report distribution
• simplify and centrally manage interaction with your fund administrators by providing view-access to selected trades or portfolios to expedite verifications, challenge resolutions and overrides
• manage mark-to-market reconciliation with counterparties to verify collateral requirements.

Manage risk with confidence

CMA Datavision™ provides independent price verification teams with accurate consensus-based pricing over-the-counter (OTC) credit instruments, including; CDS Single Name, Indices, Tranches and LCDS.

Gaining a more accurate view of the credit market enables you to:

• validate pricing supplied by your front office against independent data, ensuring that your mark-to-market process is as accurate as possible
• feed accurate pricing and reference data into your price verification processes
• challenge front office prices and investigate variances with confidence using CMA's high-quality, transparent consensus pricing and supporting liquidity metrics
• track counterparty, market and operational risk by feeding your risk management systems with high quality, reliable data
• facilitate quick identification and reporting of problems with timely end-of-day and intraday data
• integrate CDS pricing data seamlessly into your internal systems and processes using our robust reference data file.