(Reuters) – PricingDirect and Alumni, two wholly-owned subsidiaries of the most important U.S. financial institution JPMorgan & Chase, have partnered to supply impartial valuations of personal fairness securities, because the lender expands its footprint within the sector past offering capital.

Personal fairness has grown over the previous few years, with an rising variety of corporations turning to non-public credit score as the principle supply of financing their offers. Thus, the necessity for truthful valuations of such transactions has grown, primarily to make sure compliance with regulatory requirements.

The partnership goals to help traders to stick to the Monetary Accounting Requirements Board’s ASC 820 and meet the necessities of the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee’s Rule 2a-5, which governs the truthful valuation of fund investments, the businesses mentioned on Tuesday.

JPMorgan itself has put aside $10 billion of its personal capital for personal credit score, however that might develop considerably relying on demand, which reveals banks’ rising ambition to broaden its attain within the sector.

PricingDirect historically focuses on offering fastened earnings knowledge and analytics to traders, whereas Alumni, a startup acquired by the financial institution final yr, makes a speciality of enterprise capital knowledge and portfolio options.