Exchange Data International Extends Global Reach by Listing Products on The AIREX™ Markets

EDI's Worldwide Corporate Actions and Reference Data now available on the AIREX Markets, award-winning, independent, online marketplaces.

New York, December 16th 2015 - Airex, Inc. announced today that Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of reference and corporate actions data, is offering its Securities Reference Data (SRF) and Worldwide Corporate Actions Data (WCA) on the AIREX Markets. The AIREX Markets offers buyers access to financial products not previously available for individual purchase. Search, discovery, purchase, and consumption are instantaneous and convenient, without the need for salespeople, negotiating contracts, or attorney’s fees.

The global financial and investment community demands fast access to accurate, timely, and affordable data reference services that enable them to adhere to a wide range of global regulatory requirements.

Exchange Data International is offering its Securities Reference Data (SRF) and Worldwide Corporate Actions Data (WCA) on the AIREX Markets, providing its customers with a user friendly and cost efficient way to access its high quality data. Customers can utilize EDI’s products to conduct accurate financial analysis alongside the hundreds of thousands of financial apps, information, and reports – Financial AIRTM – on the AIREX Markets.

The WCA service comprehensively covers all corporate actions events affecting global securities from over 150 exchanges worldwide, with detailed announcements on 46 event types and select data from over 40 fields.

“Exchange Data International is a forward-thinking company and as such is always considering innovative ways of delivering its high quality reference data products to potential clients,” says Jonathan Bloch, Exchange Data International’s CEO,” We are delighted with the modern, quick, and efficient approach the AIREX Markets offers us to address the needs of customers globally.”

“Airex is thrilled to add EDI’s reference and corporate actions data products to our global network of online marketplaces for financial apps, information, and reports – what we call Financial AIR,” said Stephen Kuhn, CEO of Airex, Inc. “Financial AIR includes everything that investors can use for financial analysis and to make more informed investment decisions. Now that includes access to EDI’s world class reference and corporate actions data products. Our goal is to provide our customers with access to our single source marketplaces with the most recognized and respected global financial brands. Providing our customers with access to EDI’s products underscores that goal.”

Exchange Data International Enhances its Fixed Income ISO 15022 Corporate Actions service.

EDI complements its ISO 15022 Corporate Actions offering with additional Fixed Income events and MT568 extended text.

London, November 24th 2015 – Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, today announced the full implementation of ISO 15022 messages for its Worldwide Fixed Income offering.

The EDI service provides a comprehensive overview of the global fixed income market. It covers new corporate, government bond and government agency issues from 150 countries, as well as changes to their terms and conditions.

The newly released ISO feed is available on its own or integrated with EDI’s existing Equity SWIFT ISO 15022 offering. It covers all messages, including cash flows, partial and full redemptions and conversions. It also captures defaults and bankruptcies.

Kevin Brady, EDI’s Executive Director, says: “EDI is committed to provide solutions that enable clients to optimize operational efficiency. All our ISO 15022 feeds offer the potential for increased Corporate Actions Straight-Through Processing (STP) and minimise risk.”

EDI continuously monitors changes made to the ISO 15022 standard. Its feeds are currently ISO 2014 compliant, and the firm is currently working on the next release.

For more information on EDI’s ISO 15022 offering, please contact EDI at info@exchange-data.com

Wondering which securities have been placed on the threshold list?

Since the beginning of the year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined several financial institutions hundreds of thousands US dollars for violation of the Regulation SHO.

• January – Normura Securities International, Inc. – US$ 100,000
• June – Two entities of Merrill Lynch – US$ 11 million
• July – OZ Management LP - $4.25 million
• August – StockCross Financial Services, Inc. – US$ 800,000

Just to name a few.

If your role requires you to comply with SEC’s SHO regulations governing short selling activities, then Exchange Data International can provide you with daily reported short sale trade data, also known as Threshold Securities Listings.

Definition of a Threshold Securities List

Threshold Securities Listings detail daily market settlement system failures (or 'fails'). They are published in compliance with SEC regulations.

The criteria for inclusion of a security on a Threshold List

Over a period of 5 consecutive days a security must have:

• A total number of ‘fails to deliver’ exceeding 10,000 shares
• A total number of ‘shares that have failed to deliver at least equal to .5% of the issuer’s total outstanding shares
• Been listed on a similar list by a self-regulatory organization

If you would like to find out more about this service or even try it, please contact our sales team.

AQMetrics Announces Agreement with Exchange Data International

AQMetrics incorporates Exchange Data International’s Market and Corporate Actions data into its integrated Risk and Compliance Service.

DUBLIN - September 29, 2015 – AQMetrics, a leading provider of integrated risk and compliance software for the investment management industry, announced today an agreement with Exchange Data International (EDI), a well-established provider of reference and corporate actions data. EDI will provide Market and Corporate Actions data to AQMetrics clients through AQMetrics cloud based risk and compliance software.

AQMetrics delivers turnkey Pre and Post Trade Monitoring for Reg NMS, OATS and OTS reporting, UCITS Rules Monitoring, AIFMD Risk Management and Annex IV Reporting, AML/KYC and UBO monitoring, EMIR Reporting and OPERA Reports. Using AQMetrics firms can: track investor activity, orders, executions and holdings from pre to post trade; receive risk alerts and notification of compliance breaches; and gain access to a dedicated team of industry specialists who assist in the simplification of regulatory risk and compliance for Investment Managers.

In addition to EDI Market Data, AQMetrics further added EDI's Corporate Actions Data to its software. With data sourced directly from all of the world’s major stock exchanges, the Worldwide Corporate Actions service provides up-to-date and accurate equity-based corporate actions information, and provides coverage on over 150 International Exchanges, with detailed announcements on 54 corporate actions event types. EDI’s Fixed Income Corporate Actions Service follows corporate actions events on nearly 400,000 bonds from 100 countries and Supranationals. In addition to interest payments (both fixed and floating), the fixed income service covers another 40 event types. The data is sourced from stock exchanges, central banks, ministries of finance, paying and transfer agents.

“We are very excited about our new relationship with AQMetrics, as it brings EDI’s data to a new audience,” said Kevin Brady, Executive Director for Exchange Data International. “This relationship demonstrates EDI’s commitment to building strong relationships to provide the industry with high standard services.”

“We are delighted to be working with EDI in order to expand the market and corporate actions data available to our clients through. AQMetrics software,” said Geraldine Gibson, CEO at AQMetrics. “Recently we have seen increased client demand for consolidated market and corporate actions data from multiple market data sources; and as a result we recognise the need provide our clients with even more choice from our ‘One Stop’ shop.

About AQMetrics
AQMetrics delivers integrated compliance and risk management software, and value added services. AQMetrics cloud software provides financial services firms with solutions to systematically meet their AIFMD, UCITS, MiFID and EMIR challenges.

EDI Launches Its Equity Analytics Data Service

Following the launch of its bond derived dataset, EDI adds equity analytics to its data offering.

London, September 22 2015 – Securities and corporate actions reference data specialist Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has added equity analytics data, Worldwide Equity Analytics, to its comprehensive securities data offering.

This new service enables clients to identify the sources of risk and returns in their portfolios and project their volatility. It comprises a customisable set of more than 60 equity derived data fields such as Average Daily Volume, Simple Moving Averages, Alpha, Beta, and R-squared.

In addition to the analytics data, the service contains key reference and pricing data providing clients with a comprehensive overview of the global equity market.

Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bloch says: “In the wake of the financial crisis, governance, compliance and risk management have become prime factors affecting financial services. As a data provider it is important for us to ensure we supply clients with data that enables them to make informed decisions and allows them to comply with their risk management criteria.”

He adds: “The Worldwide Equity Analytics service was the logical next step after the launch last year of our bond analytics dataset, bond^Σ.”

The Worldwide Equity Analytics service is available as an end of day feed via FTP. The file can be customised as regards data fields, exchanges or countries covered.

Greenwich Technology Partners with Exchange Data International to distribute OTC Derived Data & Valuations

EDI now provides Fixed Income and OTC Derived Data.

New York – September 15th 2015 - Greenwich Technology, a leading provider of real-time and end-of-day derived data, including valuation services, announced today a reciprocal partnership with Exchange Data International (EDI) under which each firm will distribute the other’s content.

Greenwich Technology provides yield curves, corporate issuer curves, volatility surfaces and financial instrument valuations for fixed income securities and OTC derivatives. GT’s clients use its data in real time for pre-trade decision making, and at day’s end for NAV and risk management calculations.

Nigel Cairns, CEO of Greenwich Technology, said “EDI will allow GT to extend its core fixed income and OTC derivatives coverage into Level 1 securities pricing and reference data. This partnership makes it easier for clients of EDI and GT to obtain all of their pricing and reference data from a single source.”

Kevin Brady, Executive Board Director at Exchange Data International, said “By partnering with GT, we are adding a significant asset class to our repertoire of products and will enable our clients to obtain both their exchange and OTC data from one place.”

For more information on the data services provided by both companies contact either Exchange Data International at info@exchange-data.com or Greenwich Technology at sales@greenwich.technology.  

About Greenwich Technology Greenwich Technology provides analytics and financial information to the fixed income and interest rate markets. GT's pre-trade analytics software supports real-time financial instrument pricing, sensitivities and trading strategy analysis. GT's post-trade services include independent valuations and derived data, including yield curves, volatility surfaces and more.

From locations in New York, London and San Francisco, GT supports clients that include buy and sell-side firms, financial technology companies, financial information services firms, and swap execution facilities.

Why the search for securities reference data doesn't have to be daunting

If the thought of obtaining high quality and affordable securities reference data gives you a headache, you are not alone. You know that if mistakes occur along the way, they will cost you time and money.

If you consume data on a daily basis to manage risk, comply with the different regulations, maximize operational efficiency or feed different business applications, know that the process of obtaining high quality, timely and affordable securities reference data can be made painless.

Here are 5 tips to help you.

1. Call in a securities reference data expert to advise you

If granularity is top of your list of priorities, know that there are data vendors in the market able to help you. For instance Exchange Data International’s securities reference file gives you access to dynamically updated, maintained and detailed information on over 1,300,000 listed and unlisted securities including:

• Equities Certificates Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
• Debt instruments Mutual funds Indices
• Warrants

2. Choose a vendor that provides tools for customising your search

Ensure your securities reference data partner can provide you with the ability to easily select data that matters to you. Indeed Exchange Data International’s search tools allows you to search and select data from over 40 fields including:

• SEDOL^™
• ISIN
• CUSIP
• Tickers
• Issuer name
• Country of register
• Security class
• CFI
• Industry classification

3. Choose a data vendor that uses universal symbology

Universal identifiers, such as Bloomberg Symbology ones,  are essential for anyone researching and trading securities, assessing risk, managing portfolios, and managing settlement and clearing as they allow you to quickly cross check data with other providers.

4. Have the ability to classify securities by industry sector

If your job requires you to:

• Design and carry out portfolio strategies
• Evaluate industries
• Define regional and global trends
• Make informed decisions

Then choose a data vendor such as Exchange Data International, who has combined its securities reference data offering with GICS.

5. How to enjoy the lowest cost of ownership

Size matters. Know that niche firms can be flexible in their pricing. I should point out that Exchange Data International’s professional client management delivers the lowest cost of ownership whilst at the same time being the most responsive to client requests.

And finally, I always recommend you test reference data before you make a purchase. That is why Exchange Data International offers a free trial.

I trust these tips can help you with your search. In the meantime, if you would like to find out more about Exchange Data International’s securities reference data offering, then contact us.

About the author

Jonathan Bloch is a seasoned businessman. Originally from South Africa, he has been involved in publishing for nearly 35 years, during which time he was a Director of the quoted media company IBC Group plc (now Informa plc). He was also in charge of running their subsidiary companies in the US.

Jonathan established Exchange Data International in 1994. He has grown the business to have offices on four continents. His skills and experience have led him to involvement as a Non-Executive Director of many and varied types of companies.

Exchange Data International has expanded its customer support

We at Exchange Data International appreciate the hours that you work and the fact that your job demands you are not always able to keep to a regular schedule.

That’s why you will be pleased to here that we have extended our support hours.

We are now here for you 24/7

In fact not only are we extending our support hours, but also we are also pleased to announce that if required you can now obtain immediate access to Japanese-speaking support.
So if you are a customer and need help:

• Getting started with Exchange Data International’s market leading securities reference data and corporate actions data sets.
• Resolving operational issues

Or simply just require an answer to a technical question, then get in touch with our team of securities reference data, corporate actions and pricing specialists who are on hand to provide you with the best personalised support.

As always you can reach us by:

• Visiting our online customer support centre
• Calling us on: +44 (0) 207 324 0020
• Sending an email to support@exchange-data.com

We aim to acknowledge all support queries within an hour of receipt and answer queries within 24 hours where possible.

Exchange Data International Expands Support Services

EDI offers 24/7 customer support as well as Japanese speaking support.

London, 13 March 2015 - Securities and corporate actions reference data specialist Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has introduced 24/7 customer support and Japanese speaking support to meet the needs of its growing customer base.

Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bloch says: “Exchange Data International prides itself on being the most responsive to its client requests whilst delivering the lowest cost of ownership.”

He adds: “As our customer base is expanding into Japan, we have recognised the need to provide support around the hours our clients work and the fact that their jobs demand they are not always able to keep to a regular schedule. Our expanded support hours represent our efforts in this area.”

Exchange Data International’s customer support can be accessed:

• online at www.exchange-data.com/login.php
• by email at support@exchange-data.com 
• by telephoning +44 (0) 207 324 0020.