EDI’s African Financial & Economic Data Launches Its 2.0 Version – 3 New Packages Are Introduced

African Financial & Economic Data (AFED) a provider of definitive financial and economic intelligence on Africa and product of Exchange Data International (EDI), announces the release of version 2.0 of its online service.

London, 7 December 2016 – AFED provides subscribers access to a comprehensive suite of Africa’s economic, macro-economic and financial information. In version 2.0, subscribers have more control over the data and a brand-new subscription based, package system is introduced – Country Profile, Sector Focus and Data Hub.

We listened to clients and have made substantial changes to the database. Clients can now subscribe to individual countries or sectors. In addition, the data is available via data feeds. As commodity prices stabilise and economic uncertainty hits the developed world, Africa will become relatively attractive. The AFED database contains the information required to make informed decisions about investments in Africa.” – said Jonathan Bloch CEO of Exchange Data International

Divided in 13 Topics (National Accounts; Government Finance; Money & Banking; Inflation, Prices & Wages; Geography & Environment; Balance of Payments & Trade; Total Debt: Domestic & External; Business & Industry; Resources & Energy; Employment, Income & Poverty; Politics, Government & Society; Population & Health; Education) and with +3,000 key economic indicators, Country Profile provides in-depth coverage for all 54 African economies.

Sector Focus allows users to access economic and financial indicators, on all 54 African economies, for their sector of interest. Subscribers can select from a list of 15 Sectors: Agriculture, Fishing & Farming; Automotive & Transportation; Education; Employment, Income & Poverty; Energy; Environment & Infrastructure; Financial Sector; Governance, Politics and Violence; Health & Pharmaceuticals; Information & Communications Technology (ICT); Manufacturing, Retail & Wholesale; Population; Real Estate, Building & Construction; Trade; Travel & Tourism.
With over 26.5 million data records for over 50,000 key economic and financial indicators, Data Hub contains everything in the database. For ease of use, Data Hub is divided into 7 datasets: Economic Data, Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, Fixed Income, Closing Prices and Calendars (Public Holidays, Economic Calendar and Bond Auctions). Users can query each of the available datasets individually, produce time series analysis, extract the customised reports and easily commingle datasets.
We strive to give our clients the best possible options to make the data selection process as easy as possible. We cover more than 190 sources (divided into local, international, and regional) for easy comparison and analysis. Clients can stay on top of expected and confirmed releases via our economic calendar” - said Ilze Gouws, AFED Project Leader

AFED focuses on local sources and complements the data with carefully selected international ones to provide the highest quality data.  All figures are reported as published by the source leaving subscribers the choice to adjust if required.

For anyone already with, or now seeking, an African footprint, AFED provides direct access to standardised, comprehensive and clear data, derived only from trusted, named sources.

Visit www.africadata.com for more detailed information on the different datasets and request a 1-month free trial.

About African Financial & Economic Data:

African Financial & Economic Data (AFED) is a product of Exchange Data International and provides definitive economic intelligence on Africa. AFED’s unparalleled overview of all 54 African economies provides interested parties in African countries with the detailed financial and economic information they need to make good political, financial, strategic and investment decisions. Learn more at https://www.africadata.com/.


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.

Exchange Data International Improves its Worldwide Adjustment Factor Service – New Version Available Now


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 Version.2 of its Worldwide Adjustment Factor feed service.


London, 29 November 2016 - EDI’s Worldwide Adjustment Factor service allow its clients to compare a stock’s performance with adjusted pricing data, which considers distributions and corporate actions. Clients can compare historical pricing data with current prices and conduct detailed analysis with either EDI’s adjusted closing prices or adjustment factors data feeds. Now clients can benefit even more from the new additions to the updated adjustment factor feed.


The new Version.2 will include the following three major additions:

  • Inclusion of FIGI codes. FIGI codes have been added which allow clients to crosscheck data sets.
  • The fields that were sub-fields in the Detail field of the previous version now have their own fields. For example, DivType was in the Detail field (event description) as DIVPERIOD= This will allow for easier integration of the data.
  • The Reason codes are different, expanded to 3 characters enabling higher level groupings of reasons. For example, all dividend reasons begin with "01", with the 3rd character depending on whether it is cash, script or both. This allows greater granularity when deciding to apply or not. 

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of Exchange Data International commented “EDI is constantly enhancing its existing product set to add data and features requested by our clients. Version.2 of the adjustment factor feed makes improvements requested by our users”.

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.

Exchange Data International (EDI) Introduces Economic Indicator Service (EIS) in Partnership with AlgoCircle.

AlgoCircle is a technology-enabled platform, created to deliver professional financial market content to financial intermediaries across equity, currency, commodity and other markets.


London, 9 November 2016 – Together with AlgoCircle, EDI is pleased to announce the launch of the Economic Indicator Service (EIS) which expands its data coverage to include worldwide economic data.

The new EIS aims to deliver professional economic content to financial institutions on both the buy and sell side, and service providers. This new service currently covers 2229 recurring macro-economic indicators, such as GDP data, unemployment releases, PMI numbers etc. from 37 countries. EDI is enhancing this service by adding additional countries, including: Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Philippines and Taiwan.

Key information about EIS:

  • Cloud-based service – which is delivered via HTML/JavaScript application formats, which can then be embedded onto any website using iFrames
  • Alternatives methods available such as JSON feed for economic calendar that can be integrated onto the company’s system
  • Live data – updated 24/5, immediately after the data is released
  • Historical data – includes feed of all previous economic indicators

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of Exchange Data International emphasized “EIS represents a new data set for economic data. We are very pleased to be working with AlgoCircle. We believe that we can provide an effective and timely solution to investment firms seeking to provide their clients with up to date economic statistics”.
In that regard, Narendra Joshi of AlgoCircle commented “AlgoCircle is a unique company combining domain expertise in financial sector with cutting edge digital solutions to convert data into Actionable Intelligence on real-time basis. We are delighted to be working with Exchange Data International, enhancing our value propositions to investment professionals”.

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 AlgoCircle:

AlgoCircle Ltd is a UK based company with expertise in providing complete IT solutions in financial services sector. The focus is on providing financial services firms with algorithmic solutions that automate extraction of research intelligence from structured and unstructured data. AlgoCircle was founded by professionals with deep expertise in data, statistics and large scale programming, as well as long experience of the financial markets. AlgoCircle’s founders have gained their edge working in senior positions for banks and mutual funds as traders, asset managers, financial analysts and software architects. For more information about AlgoCircle, please visit http://algocircle.com/.

Exchange Data International (EDI) Partners with Quandl to Expand its Worldwide Corporate Actions Database.

Quandl, a data platform which hosts financial and economic data from hundreds of different publishers, has also now integrated EDI’s Worldwide Corporate Actions Database to expand its offerings to existing and new clients.



London, 11 July 2016 – Together with Quandl, EDI is pleased to announce that clients of Quandl will now have access to EDI’s Worldwide Corporate Actions database.

Key Information about this database:

  • More than 4.5 million records of corporate actions for over 300,000 securities from over 100,000 companies around the world. 
  • Covers over 150 exchanges and 60 different types of corporate actions, including dividends, bonus issues, right issues, mergers and buybacks of shares. 
  • Accompanied by database containing thorough reference information for securities. 
  • Also includes additional information about each corporate action, such as event type code, unique global event identifier and general notes. 
  • Updated daily 

Jonathan Bloch, CEO of Exchange Data International commented “We are very pleased to be working with Quandl to make this data set available to their clients. Every day, EDI translates up to 36 languages and covers over 150 exchanges. Equity investors will now have the opportunity to purchase the data by exchange and country as and when they wish to monitor a particular security, exchange or country”.


About Quandl:

Quandl helps data analysts save time, effort and money by delivering high-quality financial, economic, and alternative data in the precise format they need. Founded in 2012, the Quandl platform is used by over 100,000 people including thousands of analysts from the world’s top hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks. Professionals use Quandl for its rich suite of databases and unrivalled data consumption experience. Quandl is headquartered in Toronto. Learn more at www.quandl.com, visit us at the Quandl blog, or follow us on Twitter @quandl.


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.