About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Blogs

S&P Buys Imake Consulting, ABSXchange to Boost Structured Finance Data, Analytics, Modelling

Subscribe to our newsletter

Standard & Poor’s has acquired Imake Consulting, a provider of software and services to the structured finance market, and ABSXchange, an end-to-end solution provider for structured finance data, analytics and modelling. S&P is aiming improve its ability to analyse structured finance transactions including residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-based securities and collateralised debt obligations.

Standard & Poor’s has already been using Imake and ABSXchange tools, analytics and data in its structured finance surveillance, according to David Guarino, spokesperson for indices, hedge funds and mutual funds at Standard & Poor’s. “The ability to bring these offerings inhouse will allow us to expand our suite of end-to-end solutions for the structured finance market,” he adds.

Imake Consulting has been providing data, analytics and modelling software and services to the structured finance community since 1991. Its product, Analytics-on-Demand, is both an internet-based and client network-enabled analytical tool providing a solution for analysing and valuing structured finance transactions. Imake’s software is used by Standard & Poor’s in Europe.

ABSXchange provides a solution for structured finance data, analytics and modelling. Its product, @Investors Connection, is a web portal providing data, reporting and cash flow analysis to the structured finance market.

“Imake currently targets heavier users in the US, like issuers, investment banks, ratings agencies, trustees and accounting firms,” says Guarino. “ABSXchange currently targets lighter users in Europe, including investors and traders. Imake and ABSXchange’s tools, analytics and data, combined with Standard & Poor’s own suite of offerings, will provide an even more robust offering to the structured finance market.”

In the long run, Standard & Poor’s believes, the significant growth of the structured finance market will continue to drive demand for the software, services and solutions Imake and ABSXchange currently provide, meeting requirements for the flexibility of a single system to model across the structure.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: Hearing from the Experts: AI Governance Best Practices

9 September 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes The rapid spread of artificial intelligence in the financial industry presents data teams with novel challenges. AI’s ability to harvest and utilize vast amounts of data has raised concerns about the privacy and security of sensitive proprietary data and the ethical...

BLOG

A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Prestigious Innovation Awards 2025

The most innovative data and technology solutions for capital markets were recognised today as A-Team Group announced the winners of this year’s A-Team Group Innovation Awards 2025. Now in its fifth year, the prestigious awards recognise the innovative projects created across the vendor and practitioner communities that provide high-value solutions to organisations within capital markets...

EVENT

Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology

Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.

GUIDE

AI in Capital Markets: Practical Insight for a Transforming Industry – Free Handbook

AI is no longer on the horizon – it’s embedded in the infrastructure of modern capital markets. But separating real impact from inflated promises requires a grounded, practical understanding. The AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2025 provides exactly that. Designed for data-driven professionals across the trade life-cycle, compliance, infrastructure, and strategy, this handbook goes beyond...