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Murex Improves Model Validation and Market Data Sourcing, Leveraging S&P Global Market Intelligence

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Murex, the trading & risk management solutions vendor, has broadened its partnership with S&P Global Market Intelligence, to enhance model validation and market data integration in its MX.3 platform. Murex’s model validation team now utilizses S&P Global Market Intelligence for comprehensive monitoring and validation of front office pricing and risk models across various asset classes, enabling Murex’s financial engineers to test and ensure model accuracy under volatile market conditions.

MX.3 is also now directly connected to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s derivatives data services, which draw from diverse sources, offering in-depth curve and volatility surfaces for use in trading to compliance. The extended coverage, which includes less liquid and complex products, aims to provide a comprehensive market perspective for global institutions.

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