Exchange Data goes live with StatRate

Exchange Data International nearly doubles GlobeTax's e-TaxData Online's reference data product.

New York & London, September 12th, 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of international securities data, today signed up to GlobeTax‚new StatRate product allowing EDI to include non-resident statutory withholding tax rate data for over a hundred markets into its securities master file product. The launch marks the second product launched by GlobeTax into the market reference data space.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of EDI said "Together with e-TaxData Online we now have the most comprehensive withholding tax data suite in the industry available to EDI clients. Our strategic alliance with GlobeTax gives us both on-line and data feed capability for withholding rates that we believe is unique in the industry."

Martin S. Foont, President and CEO of GlobeTax said "StatRate is the application of our knowledge and pre-eminence in the withholding tax field, usually used at the back end of the corporate actions process in the form of tax reclaims. At the front end of corporate actions, financial intermediaries who make payments to their clients need to know the statutory tax rates for nonresidents from each market in order to know the default rate of tax to deduct."

Deutsche Börse integrates reference data from EDI into its product range

Deutsche Börse integrates data from Exchange Data International into their WSS Online information system to further enhance their corporate actions data covering more than 400,000 securities worldwide.

Frankfurt, July 18th, 2006, Deutsche Börse is expanding the range of market data offered by Back Office Data & Analytics to include master data and corporate actions data for listed companies worldwide. This data covers dividend distribution, capital structure changes, exchange of shares and information relating to the annual general meeting for roughly 80,000 listed instruments from 190 markets in 110 countries. In order to provide this service, Deutsche Börse is integrating the relevant data from Exchange Data International Ltd. (EDI) into its WSS Online information system from 17 July 2006. EDI is a leading provider of high quality, accurate international securities data.

EDI And InfoDirect Launch Enhanced Worldwide Adjustment Factors Service

Exchange Data International and InfoDirect collaborate to provide a service of enhanced Worldwide Adjustment Factors in an easy to access form, highly customisable and at a reduced cost.

London and Australia, July 11th, 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), the premier provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data, and InfoDirect, a provider of quality wholesale market data, have launched an enhanced Worldwide Adjustment Factors service to complement EDI's price files. Financial organizations that provide technical analysis tools to private and professional investors will benefit by having access to accurate, up-to-date information at a reduced cost

Developed in response to customer demand, the Worldwide Adjustment Factors service provides daily adjustment factors for more than 140 exchanges around the globe. It covers the eight major event types including Bonus, Rights, Entitlement, Dividend, Subdivision, Consolidation, Call and Return of Capital.

EDI Forms Alliance with AIM Software

EDI maps content to AIM Software's data integration platform GAIN to combine premium securities information with automation reducing cost and risk for the back office client.

London, 27th June 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data, and the international data management solutions provider AIM Software, announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance to provide price, static and corporate actions data from EDI via AIM Software's data management platform GAIN.

Financial institutions need accurate, consistent and complete reference data so they can increase efficiency through straight-through processing and shorten the settlement cycle. They also must have quick access to corporate actions announcements that can affect securities holdings. To this end, EDI and AIM Software agreed on collaborating to facilitate the integration of EDI's financial markets' data and to centralise the data management process within financial institutions.

Exchange Data International Launches EDI UK Tax for Tax Professionals and Individual Investor Tax Returns

Exchange Data International launches a new UK Tax service which will greatly ease, automate and rid of errors tax-reporting operations.

London, May 15th, 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), the premier provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data, has launched EDI UK Tax, a cost-effective data feed designed to complement tax return software. Using EDI's UK Tax, accountants and other tax professionals will save time, reduce errors and ultimately decrease the cost of preparing individual investor tax returns.
Accountants, legal professionals and stockbrokers need to collect a variety of vital information for tax-reporting purposes. Without up-to-date information on dividends, capital changes, name changes and so on, filings may be incorrect.

Mondas Announces Proven Interface with Exchange Data International's Corporate Action Feed

Mondas and Exchange Data International join forces to produce a corporate actions data feed that is less susceptible to errors, cuts costs, improves accuracy and allows high automation.

London, May 9th, 2006, Financial markets software specialist, Mondas PLC and Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data announced today that EDI has been added to Mondas PLC's list of proven ISO 15022 data feeds for its flagship Radica CAPS Corporate Action software solution. Financial firms will benefit from reduced data handling costs and improved accuracy. They will also save time and further cost because there will no longer be the need to develop a separate connection for each data feed.

Exchange Data International and CounterpartyLink Announce Integration

Exchange Data International and CounterpartyLink join forces to enchance the EDI's corporate actions and reference data with CPL's legal entity data.

London, April 5th 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI) and CounterpartyLinkTM have joined forces to provide an integrated data service, designed to save financial institutions time and money and help them comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations. Under the agreement, clients will be able to receive EDI's premier corporate actions and reference data linked to and supplemented by legal entity data provided by CounterpartyLink.

Financial institutions need accurate, consistent and complete reference data so they can increase efficiency through straight-through processing and shorten the settlement cycle.

Exchange Data International Launches Worldwide Initial Public Offering Database

Exchange Data International launches a new, highly customisable International Public Offering service - an tool essential in the work of investment banks.

London and New York, March 13th, 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), the premier provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data, has launched the Worldwide Initial Public Offering (IPO) Database. The new service allows investment banks to prepare in advance for forthcoming IPO transactions, keep tabs on recently launched issues and compete effectively in the marketplace.

Before listing their shares on a stock exchange, companies typically offer them to the public and/or institutions through an IPO. Investment banks' back offices need to know which companies have declared their intentions to go public so that they can set up the issue in their reference databases. Corporate Finance departments need this information so they can advise on the IPOs and consummate the deals.

Citadel Associates introduces interface for Exchange Data International's Worldwide Corporate Actions feed

Citadel Associates has, using the CADIS Data Management Platform, developed an interface to Exchange Data International's Worldwide Corporate Actions.

London, January 25th, 2006, Citadel Associates, a leading provider of financial software to the global financial services industry, today announced the development of an interface to the Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of back office data solutions and securities data.

The design philosophy behind the CADIS Data Management Platform is based on many years experience of implementing front, middle and back office solutions for banks and investment management institutions.

Financial Information, Inc. Introduces Financial International Data Service (FIDS)

Financial Information Inc use EDI's service to add Financial International Data Services to their portfolio.

South Plainfield, NJ, January 1st, 2006, Financial Information, Inc. (FII) and Exchange Data International (EDI), the leading providers of Financial Actions and Transfer Services data to the global securities industry, are pleased to announce the addition of Financial International Data Services (FIDS) to FII's premier portfolio of securities information services.

FII is integrating comprehensive international data from London-based Exchange Data International (EDI) into its World Wide Web-based query system, FII Online. The new service, which is now available, is based on a partnership agreement between the two firms.

This service has been introduced in response to our FII’s clients’ requests. FII is now able to offer its clients a full range of services providing global coverage of corporate actions and transfer services.

We at FII, listened, acted and delivered pursuant to our clients needs.