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Newsletter December 2019

The Year in Review from EDI and A Look Ahead

As we draw near to the end of the calendar year and move into a new year, we would like to share our year in review with a look at what is on the horizon for 2019. Amidst the recent developments in standardisation and regulation impacting the data reference and financial sector, we have been busy developing new partnerships and efficiently bringing positive change and greater efficiency to financial markets, providing our clients with high quality and accurate data solutions, winning awards, and attending relevant conferences in order to stay on top of all the latest conversations and trends around reference data and multiple data solutions that matter to you.

Announcing EDI Ventures 

Exchange Data International (EDI), a premier provider of financial reference data, can assist you in getting your Fintech or Data business to the next level.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of EDI wrote: “EDI Ventures has successfully enrolled early stage entrepreneurial Fintech companies in the programme. Our partners are already seeing the rewards and productively signing up subscribers to their services.” More info here

If you are interested in an EDI Venture Partnership, please contact CEO Jonathan Bloch at: 
j.bloch@exchange-data.com 

To see all our updates and news from 2018, click here.

A Few of Our Latest New Products

US Mutual Funds  The US Mutual product offers the highest quality reference data, comprehensive corporate actions and dividends data plus a daily pricing feed and for US Mutual funds. Coverage includes over 28,000 Mutual Funds, 18,000 Unit Investment Trust (UITs) and 134 Interval Funds for the US market. To find out more, contact us.

Derivatives Data – Option Analytics Service The Options Analytics Service uses daily updates and historical data to provide end-of-day analytics and reference data for US and international exchange-listed options on equities, exchanged traded funds (ETFs), equity indexes and futures. Coverage includes over 10 million option and future contracts, 10,000 issuers, pricing for US and international exchange-listed equities, ETFs and index and futures options. To find out more, contact us.

Evaluated Pricing  The Worldwide Evaluated Pricing Service provides clients with a daily source of independent prices for valuations, portfolio analytics, best execution reporting, and risk management calculations. The Evaluated Pricing Service provides prices on a wide range of fixed income securities, including: Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Syndicated Bank Loans, Agency MBS, Non-Agency CMO, CMBS, ABS, and CLO. To find out more, contact us.

Please get in touch and let us know what product(s) most interest you and what you’d like to trial.

EDI Wins 'Best Corporate Actions Data Providers' Award from DM

EDI captured the award for the ‘Best Corporate Actions Data Provider' 2018 at the recent Data Management Awards in London.

Angela Wilbraham, CEO of A-Team Group, which hosts the Data Management Awards said: “We're pleased that our readership of 15,000 senior data management executives clearly rated Exchange Data International as the Best Corporate Actions Data Provider and congratulate them on their prestigious Data Management Award win." Read the full Press Release here.

To learn more about our Corporate Actions Data Trials or to speak to one of our team members about the products we have for North America, the UK and Global/Worldwide data please get in touch.

What's on the Horizon for 2019

It is going to be an exciting first quarter of 2019 with our Sales Team in attendance at many featured financial events around the globe.

January 31st, EDI’s Maria Scappaticci will be at the FISD AMSTERDAM. Please get in touch with Maria if you’d like to connect at the event.

On February 27th, EDI’s Idil Ozkan and Andrew Sabourin will be in London for the FISD Technology Forum of SIIA. Please get in touch with Idil or Andrew if you’d like to connect with them at the event.

March 21st, our Sales Team will be attending the Data Management Summit - Moving to the New World of Data - in London. We will be exploring the exciting world of AI, ML and Blockchain, and the related impact of these new technologies on how data is managed.

Our U.S. and London teams are exhibiting at the Financial Information Management 2019 (FIMA) in Boston. From the 1st to the 3rd of April we will be participating in the dialogue about new ideas to revise data strategies; from improving data quality to innovating with data to deliver value to the business. This will be an exciting event and we hope to see many of you there! Get in touch with our US team Michael Hyland and Nora Cervara if you'd like to catch up at the event or sooner.

With such a great year under our belt, all of us at Exchange Data International look forward to 2019 and assisting our clients in new ways. Wishing you and your teams and families all the best for the new year.

Best regards,

The Team at EDI (Exchange Data International)

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EDI's comprehensive and complete reference & corporate action datasets now featured on Crux.

London, 16 August 2018 – Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, is pleased to announce a partnership with Crux a leading data engineering and information supply chain operator.

Crux is making data delightful, transforming the information supply chain by helping businesses connect with the data they need, when and how they need it. Their cloud-based technology solution connects data suppliers with customers—data users.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of EDI said: “We see the increasing importance of intermediary platforms which link consumers to manufacturers of data. Crux enables us to reach a market with which we normally do not interact namely buy side users of reference and corporate action data. We see Crux as facilitating a faster growth path for Exchange Data.”

Connect to Crux today or learn more here: www.cruxinformatics.com

About Exchange Data International (EDI)

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. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, EDI has staff in Canada, India, Morocco, South Africa and the United States. For more information about EDI visit www.exchange-data.com 

About Crux Informatics

Crux was built to solve the pain of acquiring usable data faster by helping firms find, explore, and transform data with ease. Crux offers a Data Engineering Managed Service on its Informatics Platform to take on the burdensome and non-differentiating aspects of our customers’ information supply chains, so they can focus on what really matters most: driving actionable insights for their businesses. For more information about Crux visit www.crux.com

Exchange Data International Joins FinTech Sandbox as Newest Data Partner.

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.