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Interactive Data and CounterpartyLink Announce Alliance
12 July 2006 - London
FT Interactive Data, an Interactive Data business (NYSE: IDC) and a leading supplier of financial information to global markets, announced today that it has formed an alliance with CounterpartyLink, Ltd., a provider of global legal entity data, to further enhance the business entity data service that FT Interactive Data launched in April 2006.
FT Interactive Data’s business entity data service aims to help customers meet their requirements for compliance under regulations such as the European Commission’s Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS III) directive. CounterpartyLink’s legal entity data will be combined with FT Interactive Data’s issue level content and will be offered as an optional module within FT Interactive Data’s FTS™ portfolio administration service.
CounterpartyLink, Ltd. collects and maintains global legal entity data using processes consistent with the stringent standards required by today's risk management and regulatory compliance legislation. Detailed information on legal entities, which include corporations, governments and funds, is collected in centres around the world, from primary sources and registration documents, with all data supported by an audit trail back to the source.
James Redfern, head of Distributor Management at CounterpartyLink, said: “We are pleased to be working with FT Interactive Data to provide business entity hierarchies and related data that will help users meet their UCITS III compliance requirements. Legal entity data is required by a number of critical business processes – particularly compliance. CounterpartyLink maintains audit trail information for every counterparty record, tracking the source of each piece of data. This audit information can be made available to customers to aid investigations and to understand best practices.”
Bob Cumberbatch, FT Interactive Data’s European business director, commented: “We are enhancing our new business entity data service with an additional source of legal entity data in order to provide our customers with the flexibility to choose which data content best fits their specific requirements. There has been considerable interest since we announced the service earlier this year and we expect this will further increase with the ending of the ‘grandfathering’ period for funds that was created under the preceding UCITS directive in February 2007.”
FT Interactive Data intends to offer its auto-matched, hand researched business entity data service via FTS on a per entity request basis. The service will be monitored on a daily basis.
About Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company’s businesses supply time-sensitive pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and reference data for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.
FT Interactive Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. FT Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. FT Interactive Data specialises in ‘hard-to-value’ instruments and ‘hard-to-get’ information from emerging markets.
Evaluated pricing is provided in the U.S. through FT Interactive Data Corporation and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For more information, please visit: www.interactivedata.com
About CounterpartyLink
CounterpartyLink, Ltd. provides global legal entity data, collected and maintained with processes designed to be consistent with the stringent standards driven by today's risk management and regulatory compliance requirements. Detailed information on legal entities including corporations, governments and funds is collected in centres around the world, using primary sources and registration documents, with all data supported by an audit trail back to the source. CounterpartyLink employs rigorous, documented procedures to collect and verify all data and continually updates the information for corporate actions and other events.
For more information, please visit: www.counterpartylink.com
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