EDI Launches bondΣ, A New Bond Analytics Service, In Partnership With The Beast Apps

EDI has teamed up with New York based The Beast Apps to deliver a new fixed income tool to their customer.

London, March, 17th 2014 - Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, in partnership with The Beast Apps announced today the release of its latest data feed, bond^Σ.

The new service provides clients with the necessary data to comply with regulatory requirements, perform risk analysis and test investment strategies. It combines EDI's fixed income and pricing data with algorithm apps from The Beast Apps, a provider of a cloud based Financial App Store offering access to data, analytics, risk and valuation services, to generate an initial set of 11 fixed income derived data fields such as Yield to Maturity, Modified Duration, Effective Duration and Convexity.

bond^Σ currently covers 150,000 debt securities including Government and Corporate, Fixed Rate, Floating, and Convertible issuance, providing clients with an insightful report on the global fixed income market. It also gives clients access to crucial data to value and efficiently manage their portfolio. EDI is currently looking to plug in pricing for a further 50,000 securities in order to cover all traded listed bonds. The feed will be delivered the next day by 8am GMT.

"EDI development strategy is to integrate rich deep content sets within the decision making requirements of global trading and administrative business functions. 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 portfolio.", says Kevin Brady, Executive Director at EDI.

"Clients of the bond^Σ service benefit from The Beast Apps' experience in writing algorithmic formulae and developing financial applications, as well as EDI's in-depth knowledge of market data.", he added.

"The Beast Apps is solving the "Last Mile Problem" for the providers of financial data by delivering apps through the cloud at a "Desktop Speed". By partnering with EDI, through bond^Σ, we provide clients with direct access to critical end of day and analytics pricing for valuing and managing their fixed income portfolios effectively.", says Ashok Mittal, President, The Beast Apps.

In addition to distributing the bond analytics data via the bond^Σ feed, the partners have also agreed on delivering the analytics data via The Beast Apps. The apps enables clients to access the information using Excel through the cloud helping workflow integration challenges without any programming being required. It also allows them to collaborate in real time with colleagues and clients which is more efficient than just using IMs and email.

Barchart integrates EDI's Worldwide Equity Pricing Data

EDI's worldwide corporate actions , pricing and reference data data sets now available via Barchart OnDemand.

Chicago, IL – March 12, 2014 - Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, today announced availability of its worldwide equity market data through Barchart OnDemand.

Barchart.com, Inc., a leading provider of market data and information, now delivers end-of-day and historical equity pricing from over 170 exchanges. Combined with Barchart’s global futures, commodity and foreign exchange coverage, Barchart OnDemand has become a single source for pricing on multiple asset classes. Barchart OnDemand is a cloud-based service developed for accessing and delivering market data and information using web services. Barchart OnDemand is built upon the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and features the ability to easily access an extensive amount of market data and information.

"We are working to introduce many additional sets of market data across all asset classes through Barchart OnDemand. We are very happy to work with EDI on integrating such a large piece—global equity pricing," said Barchart President Eero Pikat. "Barchart OnDemand is extremely flexible in both the market data it can integrate and in its delivery of the data," added Pikat.

"We are very pleased to work with Barchart to make our end-of-day equity prices available through their cloud-based services. There is an increasing demand for multi-asset data from one source. With the data in the cloud clients can select exactly what they want and they do not have to support redundant data, as well as different loaders. EDI has specialized in providing end-of-day data from both the developed markets as well as emerging and frontier ones, so clients will have the opportunity of getting data from every exchange in the world no matter how small," said Jonathan Bloch, EDI's CEO.

Barchart OnDemand APIs support both GET and POST requests, as well as SOAP, and data can be delivered in multiple formats like XML, JSON and CSV. And, as a web services solution, Barchart OnDemand is compatible with any operating system, such as Windows, Linux, iOS or Android, and any programming language, such as Java, PHP or ASP.NET.

Barchart OnDemand provides cloud-based market data solutions to financial services, trading and investment firms; software and mobile app developers; digital media; commodity producers and processors; and, corporate investor relations and treasury departments. Barchart OnDemand can be used to supply financial data to front, middle and back-office software applications used for market analysis, trading, and accounting, as well as for integrating financial content into websites and mobile apps. Other applications include powering portfolio management tools, risk management systems and charting applications.

For more information, visit www.barchart.com/ondemand.

Corporate Actions Leader Exchange Data International Enters Partnership With Digital Finance

Exchange Data International announced today their partnership with Montreal based Corporate Actions automation software provider Digital Finance.

Montreal, June 18th, 2013 - Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Digital Finance. The partnership is two fold:

Digital Finance will have access to EDI’s data to demonstrate to prospects and clients the capabilities of EMA, its Corporate Actions Automation software solution. In return, EDI will have access to Digital Finance software solution to be able to easily demonstrate the breadth and depth of its international Corporate Actions data offering to their prospects and clients within the Canadian marketplace.

In business since 2008, Digital Finance is a successful Montreal-based firm that is focused on providing advanced and easy-to-use Corporate Actions solutions to the Financial Services Industry. Its solutions are used to reduce the risks associated with the management of Corporate Actions and increase efficiencies while reducing costs in automating those processes.

"We are very excited about this new partnership. Teaming up with EDI will allow us to present in a real world environment the capabilities of our EMA software solution to automate the management of Corporate Actions globally" said Etienne Castonguay, president of Digital Finance. "Digital Finance enables financial services organizations to easily and quickly extract more value from their Corporate Actions data when compared to the internal systems that such companies traditionally build themselves. With our solutions, our clients eliminate all the risks of managing Corporate Actions while reducing their costs."

Founded in 1994, Exchange Data International (EDI) sources and supplies specialized financial information to the back and middle offices of banks, stockbrokers (broker/dealers) and other financial institutions globally.

EDI provides accurate, timely information such as worldwide corporate actions and dividends, static reference data, closing prices and shares outstanding data via data feeds and the web. It adds value by offering fully customized data sets, ad hoc feeds, client and market driven product development cycles as well as cost-effective implementation time scales. The firm covers all major markets with a special emphasis on emerging and frontier markets that are Africa, Asia, Far East, Latin America and Middle East. Jonathan Bloch, CEO of EDI says, "We are pleased to work with Digital Finance on developing a robust offering to provide the Canadian industry with the most accurate and reliable global Corporate Actions data".

EDI has developed a suite of deep and rich data sets that enable financial institutions to track, analyse and action complex event changes on a daily basis covering over 90,000 equities, 500,000 bonds as well as warrants, end of day pricing and specialised data products.

EDI Opens Office In Morocco To Enhance Its Coverage Of The EMEA Markets

Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced the opening of their Moroccan office in Agadir enhancing its language capabilities in French and Arabic.

London, June 4th, 2013 - Exchange Data International (EDI), the well-established provider of global Reference and Corporate Actions data, today announced the opening of their Moroccan office in Agadir.

With the new North-African branch, EDI has enhanced its languages capabilities in French & Arabic and its coverage of the EMEA market. By sourcing the data in the original language and having its own dedicated team to cleanse and analyse it, EDI ensures its clients benefit from its experience and receive the same high-quality data for all markets, from the less transparent markets to the major ones.

EDI appointed Said Benbihi, a Masters graduate in Economics & Finance Translation, to run the Agadir office.