FDIC Financials and S&P Leveraged Commentary & Data Now Available in the Capital IQ Platform

October 6, 2008 12:25 PM EDT

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, today announced the integration of data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and S&P Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD) in the Capital IQ Platform. The FDIC provides detailed financials on over 8,000 banks, and LCD provides unique insights into the leveraged loan market. FDIC and LCD data were added as part of Capital IQ's latest release which also included a host of enhancements to other platform features such as screening, charting, Excel Plug-In, and research estimates.

"We have added significant depth to our coverage of credit markets and financial institutions. Given the current ongoing market conditions, making this information available to our clients is very timely," said Randall Winn, Executive Managing Director of Capital IQ.

Capital IQ now includes income statement, balance sheet, and supplemental data for all FDIC-insured companies. LCD data includes daily news and details on leveraged loans as well as various analytics. Other release enhancements include:

-- Screening on hundreds of new items such as credit default swaps, FDIC financials, and S&P LCD data.

-- FDIC, D&B private company financials, and LCD securities and pricing data are now all accessible via Capital IQ's Excel Plug-In.

-- Ability to "click-through" on brokerage estimates and trace the number to the source research reports.

    -- Earnings call transcripts alongside details on corporate events.

    -- Expanded coverage of news and blogs to over 10,000 sources.

    -- SEC and SEDAR filings now available through Capital IQ Web Services.

About Capital IQ and Standard & Poor's

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,400 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, a unique combination of global private and public capital market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships, and simplify workflow. Clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business applications and portals via systems integration and data feeds. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com

Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates, located in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.

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