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Exchange Data International Provides Dividend Data Through FinDataPortal™
Worldwide Cash & Stock Dividends now available on-demand through online financial portal.
New York, September 15th 2009 - FinDataPortalTM (FDP) today announced that Exchange Data International (EDI), a well established provider of Corporate Actions and Reference Data publishes its Worldwide Dividend data on FDP’s financial data portal.
By publishing EDI’s Worldwide Dividend data, FDP provides its users with in-depth coverage of cash and stock dividends across more than 110 countries. FinDataPortal is a very intuitive web-interface giving firms total freedom and control of their data usage.
Clients of this service can search for dividend announcements for a specific security or at a global or portfolio level. Additionally they can create a dividend calendar on Ex, Record and Pay dates for a 5 day period based on their holdings or globally.
“FinDataPortal is a great opportunity for data providers to reach a new type of customers with occasional data needs”, said Jonathan Bloch, C.E.O and founder of Exchange Data International. “We are delighted to distribute our dividend data through this on-demand portal and are currently working on expanding our offering with Shares Outstanding data.”
Standard & Poor’s was the first data provider to publish two of its data sets, North American Dividend Record & Unit Investment Trusts, on FinDataPortal. By adding EDI’s worldwide dividend offering, FDP offers subscribers the opportunity to access comprehensive global corporate actions data via a single source.
FinDataPortal is a new way for firms to “consume”; financial data; it offers flexible access to original vendor content sets. Users of this portal can easily research a specific security, monitor their portfolios or cross-check data from multiple sources. In the near future, FDP expects to add data offerings from several other data providers and offer users extensive coverage of high quality financial data at a lower cost.
FinDataPortal™ – The Flexible Alternative to Providing Financial Data
New York, January 28th. 2009 - FinDataPortal™ (FDP) is a brand new company launched in November 2008 with the unique concept of bringing together disparate financial data content. FDP can be used by any organizations, CPAs, fund managers, custodians, trust companies…, requiring the latest corporate action and dividend information for companies listed throughout the world.
FDP is the perfect solution for this cost cutting era as it provides subscribers with a large choice of financial data sets without hefty annual payment or IT cost. Users of this unique portal only pay a small minimum monthly fee to be credited against the “hits”. Basically users are only paying for the financial data they are actually using which enables them to select financial data sets from different financial data providers to fully meet their specific financial data needs without having to spend thousands.
FDP aims to partner with many financial data providers to provide competitive products offering the institutional market comprehensive financial data coverage for all class of assets worldwide. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is the first financial data provider to display two of their financial data sets on FinDataPortal™. Subscribers have the opportunity to access their renowned North American Dividend and UIT financial data sets used by institutions and CPAs for decades.
Exchange Data International (EDI) joined S&P on this financial data portal and offers its Worldwide Dividend and Shares Outstanding financial data sets. Jonathan Bloch, C.E.O and founder of EDI said: “FinDataPortal™ is a cost effective solution particularly for institutions with occasional or distinctive financial data needs and we think it is a great opportunity to reach a different type of customer who would never have opted for our primary financial data sets.”
FinDataPortal™ is definitely designed for the current economic conditions where companies want to keep costs down but at the same time have an array of financial data that they can access.
Standard & Poor’s Provides Corporate Actions Data through FinDataPortal™
North American Dividends and Unit Investment Trust information now available for customized searches and downloading through online portal
NEW YORK, January 20, 2009 – Standard & Poor’s, a leading provider of financial market
intelligence and independent fixed-income evaluations and data, today announced that its North
American Dividend Record and Unit Investment Trust services are now available through
FinDataPortal™. This data is used by front and back office operations to track and process payments
and other corporate actions.
FinDataPortal™, an independent financial data portal launched in November 2008, offers a wide range
of searching and screening capabilities in addition to electronic versions of the complete Dividend
Record and Unit Investment Trusts services content. Clients can search individual issues or create
customized listings based on date range, distribution type, asset class, or on the individual securities
in their portfolios.
In upcoming releases Standard & Poor’s will be including Unit Investment Trust Announcements,
Tax Status of Dividends and Fixed Income Corporate Actions, including delimited file downloading,
for customized search requests.
“With FinDataPortal’s customization capabilities, clients can have affordable access to the content
they need,” said Frank Ciccotto, Senior Vice President, Standard & Poor’s. “The delimited file
download offering eliminates all the programming and expense associated with traditional universe
feeds. By extending our print service to this platform, clients will have instantaneous access to their
subscriptions.”
In today’s marketplace, a growing segment of institutions have outsourced their corporate actions
processing. FinDataPortal, by hosting multiple vendors, facilitates access to the original vendor
content sets. Whether it’s researching a specific security or comparing announcements from various
vendors, the FinDataPortal platform serves as a single source for research and access to dividends
and corporate actions.
Contact
Anais Bresle
Marketing Manager
+44 207 269 9150
a.bresle@findataportal.com