EDI's Worldwide Corporate Actions, Closing Prices and Reference Data Services Available Via The Beast Apps

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing data and reference data, are pleased to announce today that clients will have access to Worldwide Corporate Actions, Closing Prices and Reference Data via The Beast Apps, in addition to the BondΣ service, which is already available.

London, 24 January 2017 –  By partnering with The Beast Apps, EDI is enabling clients to gain a more detailed view of their holdings and accurately calculate the risk of their portfolios. Clients of Worldwide Corporate Actions, Closing Prices and Reference Data can benefit from The Beast App’s experience in making access to data available using Excel, browser and mobile devices and EDI’s in-depth knowledge of market data and analytics.

This collaboration combines EDI’s services with BeastExcel technology from The Beast Apps, who is a provider of financial technology and services helping deliver access to data, analytics, liquidity, stp, compliance, risk and valuation service based applications through cloud or a private data centre. Clients of EDI can now access all data and analytics for securities in their portfolios using browser, Excel, tablets or smartphones. Clients will be able to take advantage of this service for accessing EDI data and analytics directly using Excel through the cloud, without the need of any programming or ftp download, which will help the workflow integration challenges. Members of teams will be able to work collaboratively together and will be able to see real-time changes updating in Excel as soon as the data becomes available. 

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of Exchange Data International commented “EDI is pleased to provide its data through The Beast Apps. This will allow clients to manipulate the data, view it on their desktops and save on integration costs. EDI is targeting the buy side and front offices with this application”.


In that regard, Ashok Mittal, President of The Beast Apps emphasised, “Excel is a very powerful tool and is a de facto integration tool for most professionals. tBA’s ability to deliver data, analytics or trading directly into Excel in an existing spreadsheet, through the cloud, without any programming helps solve workflow challenges. The data updates automatically as soon as it changes, without having to do anything. We are happy to extend our relationship with EDI and make their Worldwide Corporate Action, Closing Prices and Reference Data available directly from Excel.”

About Exchange Data International:

Exchange Data International 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 e.g. Africa, Asia, Far East, Latin America and Middle East. EDI is based in London, with offices in New York, India and Morocco. For more information about EDI, please visit http://www.exchange-data.com.

About The Beast Apps:

The Beast Apps (tBA) is a Financial Technology leader that helps build, expand, integrate and migrate clients’ Pre-Trade, Trade and Post-Trade systems, deployed in a data centre or the cloud. tBA’s The Beast® is a latest, state of the art, scalable, extensible, robust and mature framework with the performance to deliver data, analytics, trading, post trade or regulatory compliance applications, in browser, Excel, desktop or mobile devices. tBA’s customers include large financial firms to entrepreneurial firms, and has a team that understands the working of the financial industry and financial products through decades of experience of trading, brokering, management and technology. For more information about tBA, please visit http://www.thebeastapps.com.



Exchange Data International Announces the New Worldwide Cost-Basis Service

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, reference data and end-of-day pricing, are pleased to announce today the new Worldwide Cost-Basis service (WCB).

London, 11 January 2017 – EDI's new WCB service has been designed to enable users to track both a security’s cost basis, its evolution and all its descendant’s cost basis & evolution up to the current date. This service includes all events that affect cost basis and the number of units. The WCB information is delivered via FTP, either via exchange or on a portfolio basis. 

The following is a full list of events are covered by the WCB service:

Bonus Capital Reduction De-Merger Dividend
Merger Rights Security Swap Takeover
Capital Call Consolidation Distribution DRIP
Return of Capital Rights (Transient) Subdivision


Jonathan Bloch, CEO of Exchange Data International said “EDI has been developing a series of analytical products based on our core data sets of security reference and corporate actions data. We are now pleased to launch Worldwide Cost Basis which will serve as a foundation for any capital gains calculations in any jurisdiction. Without this information, any capital gains tax calculation would be inaccurate as the security could have changed since its purchase”.


About Exchange Data International:

Exchange Data International 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 e.g. Africa, Asia, Far East, Latin America and Middle East. EDI is based in London, with offices in New York, India and Morocco. For more information about EDI, please visit http://www.exchange-data.com.