EDI Strengthens its Corporate Action Service by Adding Coverage of Structured Products

Exchange Data International Adds Structured Products to Worldwide Corporate Action Service.

London, February 4th, 2008, Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the aggregation of Reference and Corporate Actions data announces the integration of Structured Products into its Worldwide Corporate Actions database. The addition of these instruments is a considerable enhancement to EDI's Corporate Actions and the Security Reference File services.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of Exchange Data International said, "we have responded to our clients' demands for us to include Structured Products in our coverage. EDI has worked closely with a consultancy team to understand their special characteristics and unique Corporate Actions of these instruments. Our Corporate Actions service now offers a comprehensive coverage of all worldwide equity instruments."

EDI launches Shareholders Circular service

Exchange Data International launches its new Shareholder Circular service that will significantly cut clients' costs and save time.

London, December 14th, 2007, Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the collection of Reference and Corporate Actions data announces the launch of a web service giving access to Shareholders Circulars. This is a major enhancement to its direct sourced UK Corporate Actions database (WinCAB2).

Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of Exchange Data International said “we have pro-actively responded to the needs of our clients by integrating Shareholder Circulars with the corporate action announcements. These circulars cover such vital information as Nominee and Overseas Restrictions and Conversion and Redemption Formulae. Clients will now save time and considerable expense in sourcing the underlying data. EDI has established direct links with issuer companies to ensure we receive these documents on a timely basis.”

In addition to this easy and timely access to Shareholder Circulars, EDI’s UK Corporate Actions service now includes the Adjustment Factors directly linked to the relevant corporate action.

EDI launches Own Corporate Actions Service

Exchange Data International launches its own self-sourced UK Corporate Actions data and switches customers over from the previous redistributed service.

London, March 26th, 2007, Exchange Data International Limited (EDI), the premier provider of high-quality, accurate international securities data announces today it has built out its own UK content (corporate actions and dividends) that will not only more than match existing services to date, but will also offer additional product benefits. As a main competitive difference, EDI will not impose any restrictive distribution arrangements for data use. The service is now live and available.

Exchange Data goes live with StatRate

Exchange Data International nearly doubles GlobeTax's e-TaxData Online's reference data product.

New York & London, September 12th, 2006, Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of international securities data, today signed up to GlobeTax‚new StatRate product allowing EDI to include non-resident statutory withholding tax rate data for over a hundred markets into its securities master file product. The launch marks the second product launched by GlobeTax into the market reference data space.

Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of EDI said "Together with e-TaxData Online we now have the most comprehensive withholding tax data suite in the industry available to EDI clients. Our strategic alliance with GlobeTax gives us both on-line and data feed capability for withholding rates that we believe is unique in the industry."

Martin S. Foont, President and CEO of GlobeTax said "StatRate is the application of our knowledge and pre-eminence in the withholding tax field, usually used at the back end of the corporate actions process in the form of tax reclaims. At the front end of corporate actions, financial intermediaries who make payments to their clients need to know the statutory tax rates for nonresidents from each market in order to know the default rate of tax to deduct."