Corporate Actions Leader Exchange Data International Enters Partnership With Digital Finance

Exchange Data International announced today their partnership with Montreal based Corporate Actions automation software provider Digital Finance.

Montreal, June 18th, 2013 - Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Digital Finance. The partnership is two fold:


Digital Finance will have access to EDI’s data to demonstrate to prospects and clients the capabilities of EMA, its Corporate Actions Automation software solution. In return, EDI will have access to Digital Finance software solution to be able to easily demonstrate the breadth and depth of its international Corporate Actions data offering to their prospects and clients within the Canadian marketplace.


In business since 2008, Digital Finance is a successful Montreal-based firm that is focused on providing advanced and easy-to-use Corporate Actions solutions to the Financial Services Industry. Its solutions are used to reduce the risks associated with the management of Corporate Actions and increase efficiencies while reducing costs in automating those processes.


"We are very excited about this new partnership. Teaming up with EDI will allow us to present in a real world environment the capabilities of our EMA software solution to automate the management of Corporate Actions globally" said Etienne Castonguay, president of Digital Finance. "Digital Finance enables financial services organizations to easily and quickly extract more value from their Corporate Actions data when compared to the internal systems that such companies traditionally build themselves. With our solutions, our clients eliminate all the risks of managing Corporate Actions while reducing their costs."


Founded in 1994, Exchange Data International (EDI) sources and supplies specialized financial information to the back and middle offices of banks, stockbrokers (broker/dealers) and other financial institutions globally.


EDI provides accurate, timely information such as worldwide corporate actions and dividends, static reference data, closing prices and shares outstanding data via data feeds and the web. It adds value by offering fully customized data sets, ad hoc feeds, client and market driven product development cycles as well as cost-effective implementation time scales. The firm covers all major markets with a special emphasis on emerging and frontier markets that are Africa, Asia, Far East, Latin America and Middle East. Jonathan Bloch, CEO of EDI says, "We are pleased to work with Digital Finance on developing a robust offering to provide the Canadian industry with the most accurate and reliable global Corporate Actions data".


EDI has developed a suite of deep and rich data sets that enable financial institutions to track, analyse and action complex event changes on a daily basis covering over 90,000 equities, 500,000 bonds as well as warrants, end of day pricing and specialised data products.


EDI Opens Office In Morocco To Enhance Its Coverage Of The EMEA Markets

Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced the opening of their Moroccan office in Agadir enhancing its language capabilities in French and Arabic.

London, June 4th, 2013 - Exchange Data International (EDI), the well-established provider of global Reference and Corporate Actions data, today announced the opening of their Moroccan office in Agadir.

With the new North-African branch, EDI has enhanced its languages capabilities in French & Arabic and its coverage of the EMEA market. By sourcing the data in the original language and having its own dedicated team to cleanse and analyse it, EDI ensures its clients benefit from its experience and receive the same high-quality data for all markets, from the less transparent markets to the major ones.

EDI appointed Said Benbihi, a Masters graduate in Economics & Finance Translation, to run the Agadir office.

EDI Collaborates With OTC Markets Group

Exchange Data International (EDI) team up with OTC Markets Group and launch the OTC Corporate Actions Data Service. The new service helps investors mitigate trading risk associated with corporate actions.

London and New York, May 28th, 2013 - OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, and Exchange Data International (EDI), a premier provider of back- and front-office financial and securities data, today announced the creation of the OTC Corporate Actions Data Service which will provide timely, comprehensive corporate action data for companies trading on the OTCQX®, OTCQB® and OTC Pink® marketplaces.

EDI Collaborates With Derivative Partners To Provide Independent Valuations

Exchange Data International (EDI) team up with Zurich based Derivative Partners to offer a comprehensive independent structured products valuation service.

London, March 5th, 2013 - Exchange Data International (EDI), a well-established provider of Security Reference and Corporate Actions data, today announced its partnership with Derivative Partners, a leading provider of independent risk management and valuation services of structured products, to provide valuations for a wide range of structured products and complex derivative instruments.

The current service covers result sets combining various asset classes including equity, indices, FX and commodities, payoffs and pricing models.

Closing Prices Definition - What change in 2012?

How would you define the term 'closing price'? 

One of the most common definitions for closing prices is "the price of the last transaction for a security in a trading session" or words to this effect. Others simply use the phrase "the final price for a security on a given trading day".

Unfortunately none of these definitions are accurate. The closing price can be a myriad of things, ranging from simply the last transaction for a security for the day to a price derived from a complicated calculation or process. The closing price can also vary within a market where one rule applies to one trading segment and another rule applies to another segment.

As a provider of end-of-day pricing data, EDI has identified the need for closing price data to be defined as this is an area where ambiguity and inconsistency are rampant. The Closing Prices Handbook enables professionals to understand the definitions, compare the data and explain any pricing anomalies.

In the past 12 months, there have been about 30 updates, some of which had a direct impact on the trading rules and the way the closing price is derived. There have also been some changes in MIC Codes, with the addition of new market segments. There are already 3 main changes planned for the first half of 2013 and there will be probably more to come.

Below are some examples of the market changes that happened in 2012 and indirectly affect closing pricing data.

Brazil - BM&F Bovespa
Migration to the BM&F Bovespa Puma trading system

  • Stage 1 – Derivatives & FX trading - completed by the end of 2011.
  • Stages 2 & 3 – Equities, Equity Derivatives and Bond trading scheduled for 2012 & 2013.
    • ZA06 - Exchange traded products
    • ZA12 - NSX and JSE dual listed instruments
    • ZA05 - Instrument of and African origin only other than Namibian securities

Italy – Borsa Italiana
June 25th 2012 - BIt now offers trading in a wide range of instruments through Millennium Exchange, the London Stock Exchange trading system.

Kuwait - Kuwait Stock Exchange
May 13th 2012 – Kuwait Automated Trading System (KATS) replaced by the Nasdaq OMX X-Stream trading platform.

New Zealand – NZX
May 4th 2012 - The NZX announced its intention to migrate all trading to the Nasdaq OMX X-Stream trading platform towards the end of 2012.

Nigeria - Nigerian Stock Exchange
April 28th 2012 - The Nigerian Stock Exchange extended its contract with Nasdaq OMX committing to the implementation of the Nasdaq OMX X-Stream trading platform in the first half of 2013.

Oman - Muscat Securities Markets
The Muscat Securities Markets is now trading through the NYSE Technologies NSC V900 order-driven trading platform.

South Africa – Johannesburg Stock Exchange
July 2nd 2012 - Equities and equity products are now traded via the London Stock Exchange trading system, Millennium Exchange.

  • Two new markets segments have now been created
  • One market segment is no longer in use
Switzerland - SIX Swiss Exchange
April 2012 - The SIX Swiss exchange upgraded its SIXess trading system with core technology provided by the Nasdaq OMX X-Stream INET trading platform.

United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
May 28th 2012 – The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange extended its contract with Nasdaq OMX committing to the implementation of the Nasdaq OMX X-Stream trading platform in the second half of 2013.