Bloomberg Valuation Service -2018 Best Evaluated Price Service Provider by Waters TechnologyAs regulators continue to put increasing pressure on firms to mitigate risk and introduce more prescriptive rules for valuing assets, there is persistent demand for vendors to deliver pricing services that allow firms to drill down to and understand the underlying methodology and inputs. Topping the readers’ survey for the Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider is Bloomberg with its Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL), which has landed the data giant the coveted award for the second consecutive year. ***2017 Best Evaluated Price Service Provider by Waters TechnologyBVAL is the new standard for transparency and quality in the fixed income valuation market. The BVAL service algorithmically combines a wealth of market data, sophisticated analytics and asset class specific relative value models to produce credible and defendable valuations. Additionally, each BVAL Price receives a proprietary BVAL Score, measured on a scale of 1-10, which quantifies the amount and consistency of the market observations used in calculating each BVAL Price.