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.

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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.