Will make comprehensive and complete securities reference
data for the world’s equity and fixed income instruments available to startups
in order to advance innovation in FinTech.
BOSTON, MA - JUNE 01, 2016
FinTech Sandbox today announced that Exchange Data
International (EDI) will make securities data available to Sandbox residents,
helping to facilitate innovation in financial technology.
Remarked EDI CEO Jonathan Bloch, “We are very excited to
partner with FinTech Sandbox as we strongly believe that the future of the
financial sector will be determined by the new FinTech companies. Exchange Data
International is happy to facilitate their birth and success.”
EDI is offering detailed information gathered daily from
more than 600 sources on 21 different types of financial instruments covering
215 exchanges around the globe, including hard-to-get data from emerging
markets.
Boston-based non-profit FinTech Sandbox makes financial data
and infrastructure provided by its partners available to FinTech startups that
pass a rigorous application process. The Sandbox doesn’t charge fees or ask for
equity from residents. Instead, residents are expected to collaborate with each
other in order to share learning and promote advances that benefit the entire
FinTech ecosystem. The six-month program includes:
- A robust set of data feeds and APIs from a wide array of data partners
- Cloud hosting from industry-leading infrastructure partners
- Learning, networking, and collaboration opportunities in a dynamic FinTech community.
- Demo days that offer startups the opportunity to showcase their products for a live, highly-qualified audience.
Said Jean Donnelly, Executive Director of FinTech Sandbox,
“We are very excited to have EDI come aboard. FinTech
entrepreneurs around the world will use their data as they build the next great
financial startups.”
About Exchange Data
International
Exchange Data International (EDI) helps the global financial
and investment community make informed decisions through the provision of fast,
accurate timely and affordable data reference services. EDI’s extensive content
database includes worldwide equity and fixed income corporate actions,
dividends, static reference data, closing prices and shares outstanding,
delivered via data feeds and the Internet. The firm covers all major markets
with special emphasis on emerging and frontier markets that are Africa, Asia,
Far East, Latin America and Middle East. EDI is based in London, with offices in
New York and India and Morocco. For more information about EDI visit
http://www.exchange-data.com.
About FinTech Sandbox
FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit founded to
promote financial technology innovation globally by providing free access to critical
data and resources to FinTech entrepreneurs and startups. Sponsors include
Fidelity Investments, F-Prime Capital, Thomson Reuters, Silicon Valley Bank,
Amazon Web Services, Intel, SIX Financial Information, Goodwin Procter, State
Street Bank, and .406 Ventures. For more information, please visit
http://www.FinTechSandbox.org and https://twitter.com/FinTechSandbox.
