EDI Enchances EventsData.com Corporate Actions Service

Mergent's EventsData North American corporate actions service is enhanced with international data from London-based EDI.

New York, NY, August 25th, 2005, Mergent, Inc. announced today that its EventsData.com North American corporate actions database service is integrating comprehensive international data from London-based Exchange Data International (EDI).

The combined EventsData.com International Corporate Actions and Events service, will provide a global source for corporate actions and dividends - North American and International - easily accessible within the same platform. The new service is available through a Web-based application.

EDI Allies with GlobeTax

Exchange Data International forms alliance with GlobeTax to obtain accurate tax information used in portfolio and investment planning.

London and New York, June 6th, 2005, Exchange Data International today signed a co-marketing agreement to provide withholding tax data and services to EDI's subscriber base. The deal, which was signed in New York, allows EDI to meet market demand from researchers, brokers and custodians for accurate withholding tax information on real and expected investment income for use in portfolio planning.

Jonathan Bloch, Managing Director of EDI said: "This agreement is fundamental to our business growth strategy. GlobeTax is the world's largest and most successful outsource tax recovery firm and we're delighted to have such a partner. The new product will be available by subscription on the world-wide web as part of our e-Data Suite of products and will offer a sophisticated searchable matrix of over 43 million data points of withholding and treaty rate information, including every permutation type of income, beneficial owner status, residency and year of distribution".

EDI To Become BvDEP's Latest Data Provider

Exchange Data International becomes the latest new information provider for corporate actions and dividend data added to BvDEP's OSIRIS service.

London, June 2004, Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP), the leading European electronic publisher has chosen Exchange Data International (EDI) to provide the corporate actions and dividends data feed for the latest version of OSIRIS, BvDEP's global listed company database. EDI's service was made available to OSIRIS customers on 1 June 2004.

EDI adopts ISO for Corporate Actions

EDI adopts ISO 15022 for Corporate Action Data to provide maximum flexibility for its clients and cut costs using advanced automation.

London, February 2nd, 2004, Exchange Data International, a leading provider of international securities administration and reference data - this year celebrating its 10th anniversary - announces the first phase of integrating the SWIFT compliant ISO 15022 messaging protocol into its corporate action data services. The move will assist clients in automating their corporate action processing as part of their drive towards STP.
Corporate action processing remains one of the key areas in the STP chain requiring a significant amount of manual intervention, with resulting implications for cost, staff training and an increase in risk resulting from human error.