Chatham Financial Launches Integrated Valuation Platform

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chatham Financial, a globally recognized leader in interest rate risk, currency risk, debt advisory, accounting and valuations, today announced the expansion of its comprehensive valuation platform to provide the broader business community access to its sophisticated technology and robust methodology applied to financial instruments across the entire balance sheet.

“Chatham’s valuations provide us with a strong analytical methodology that supplies us with a documented means to substantiate values for somewhat illiquid assets. Chatham’s methodology is comprehensive and insightful. They have been very responsive to our toughest questions”

The enhanced solution integrates the valuation of financial instruments across derivatives, debt and assets, allowing Chatham to further expand its capabilities as a full-service valuation provider.

“Marked-to-market accounting continues to be a major concern for clients with financial assets and liabilities. Our holistic approach to valuation of the entire balance sheet will help our clients incorporate a sound, consistent approach across each balance sheet category,” said Mark Henderson CFA, Director of Chatham Valuation Services. “Our deep derivatives market expertise and intimate knowledge of valuation and accounting requirements gives us a unique, holistic perspective on valuation.”

The firm values over 20,000 debt and derivative transactions on a real-time, daily, monthly, and quarterly basis employing sophisticated technology to comply with appropriate accounting standards such as ASC 815 (FAS 133), ASC 820 (FAS 157), and ASC 320 (FAS 115) and ASC 325 (EITF 99-20). Since 2007, Chatham has also offered clients a comprehensive web-based debt management system that incorporates the valuation of loan assets and liabilities with the tracking of debt terms and covenants and the ability to calculate current and projected interest expense.

“Chatham’s valuations provide us with a strong analytical methodology that supplies us with a documented means to substantiate values for somewhat illiquid assets. Chatham’s methodology is comprehensive and insightful. They have been very responsive to our toughest questions,” said Mark Cvrkel, Treasurer & CFO of Susquehanna Bank.

Presently, Chatham serves over 1,000 clients across all industry sectors, including manufacturing, health care, technology, retail, media, real estate and financial institutions. Chatham has been a leader in derivative valuations for nearly 20 years, continually expanding the breadth of derivatives valued and the complexity of its valuation models. Chatham led the market with its potential future exposure methodology for calculating the fair value of derivatives in 2008, becoming the first independent provider to model non-performance risk in accordance with FAS 157 (now ASC Topic 820).

About Chatham Financial

Chatham Financial is the largest independent interest rate and foreign exchange risk management advisory company; serving clients in the areas of hedging strategy development, derivatives documentation, transaction execution, hedge accounting ASC 815 (FAS 133/IAS 39), and derivatives valuations ASC 820 (FAS 157). Additionally, Chatham provides capital and debt advisory services, defeasance services, financial instrument valuation services and debt management software. Annually, Chatham advises more than 1,000 clients on over 8,000 transactions and $350 billion notional from offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.ChathamFinancial.com.