Xpressfeed

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You need the right data to make the right decisions. And you need to get it quickly and efficiently. Spend more time conducting analysis and less on retrieving and managing data with Xpressfeed a powerful data feed management solution.

Streamline your data management

Integrated Open Database Reliable Data Delivery Comprehensive Data Sets

Xpressfeed capitalizes on the combined strengths of S&P Capital IQ and select third-party vendors to help you enhance your proprietary analytics, financial portals, CRM systems and more.

DEEP DATA FROM A SINGLE SOURCE

Well help you: Obtain all the foundational data needed to power sophisticated quantitative research and modeling Focus on your strategic investment objectives with a database that incorporates thousands of automated and manual data quality checks to ensure accuracy Realize greater control and transparency over your data repository

SEAMLEss, SPEEdY DELIVERY

Xpressfeed provides a single integrated data source in item-level transaction files. The comprehensive data warehouse includes all the necessary foundational data sets required to power sophisticated quantitative research and modeling. Information is delivered in packages so you can customize and receive only the data you want and need. With Xpressfeed, you can: Tap into over 120 data sets including point-in-time financials, estimates and information on company personnel, key developments and other non-financial details Access fundamental and market data on over 91,000 active and inactive global securities, including daily pricing history, industry classifications and total returns Review Standard & Poors credit ratings on more than 9,000 global issuers including corporates, financial institutions and insurance companies; 600 sovereigns, and international and U.S. public finance entities; and 18,000 structured finance transactions Take advantage of the industrys most comprehensive database of corporate actions and security mappings Benchmark the performance of investments, including those that represent broad market segments with index data integrated and linked to S&P Capital IQ data Uncover the complete picture of your Company Analysis by leveraging S&P Capital IQs integrated data base of private and public companies. Information on over 2.9 million private companies globally and robust financial data from 2004 forward on over 500,000 private companies throughout Europe and North America.

Updated content on over 18,000 global public companies delivered every 5 minutes

Reliable data delivery and management

Xpressfeeds turnkey data loading and maintenance technology provides a reliable and efficient solution to data delivery and management you can trust. Xpressfeeds loader application has automatic schema generation that simplifies maintenance and enables a fully-populated database to be up and running quickly. Additionally, the loader runs on your side, giving you greater control over when and how the data is processed in your depository.

WHAT YOU wANT, wHEN YOU wANT IT

Supports Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases Lets you focus on your strategic investment objectives instead of the technology Reduces the time and complexity of data management

FLEXIBLE ANd COMPATIBLE

Xpressfeed offers the flexibility and compatibility you are seeking in a data platform. The open database design allows you to utilize data both within our desktop tools, as well as your own analytical systems and products.

Many helpful features

Easily specify which feeds to load and when to load them

Permanent unique identifiers are assigned to each company, security and trading item Embedded mapping across vendors allows for seamless cross-vendor data usage Transaction files are delivered daily to capture up-to-date data for your research and analysis

Xpressfeed loader log file

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Integrated delivery of the leading data sets for quantitative research

FINANCIALS
S&P Capital IQ Premium Financials All instances of standardized nancial data on an annual, quarterly, semi-annual, last twelve month and year-to-date basis. This includes all representations of a nancial period including press releases, original lings and all restatements. These les contain the seven industry templates of an S&P Capital IQ presentation (Industrial, Bank, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Insurance, REITs and Utilities) as well as over 4,500 nancial, supplemental and industry-specic data items for active and inactive public companies. Compustat Financials Comprised of fundamental and market data for active and inactive publicly-traded companies. Coverage includes annual and quarterly data from 1979 with daily and monthly market data from 1984. Historical annual data is from 1950 and quarterly data is from 1962. Capital Structure Detailed information about the debt and equity aspects of a companys capital structure. Debt capital structure data covers over 51,000 public and private companies and equity capital structure data on over 81,000 public and select private companies worldwide. Bank Regulatory Provides bank regulatory and nancial forms data led with federal banking agencies, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as well as the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). FDIC regulatory lings cover over 20,000 banks and their subsidiaries, delivering information on over 900 unique data items with history available back to 1976. FFIEC regulatory lings include over 3,500 banks and their subsidiaries, delivering information on over 800 unique data items with history available back to 1986. Industry-Specic In-depth operational global data companies on the following 16 industries: Airline, Bank, Hotels & Gaming, Healthcare Facilities, Homebuilding, Insurance, Internet Media, Managed Care (HMO), Mining, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Restaurant, Retail, Semiconductor Equipment and Telecom, Cable & Wireless.

QUALITATIVE DATA

Company Intelligence Proles of public and private rms worldwide including company contact information, competitors, nancial auditors and summary or detailed-level business descriptions. People Intelligence Proles of professionals including biography, contact data, education, compensation, aliations and corporate board memberships. Key Developments Information on more than one million key developments from over 20,000 news sources including press releases, regulatory lings, company web sites, web mining and call transcripts. Transactions Proles of M&A, private placement, venture capital, PIPE, spin-o, bankruptcies, share buyback programs and equity/debt public oerings. Each transaction has a synopsis, deal size, company participants, advisors coverage and associated lings. The global transaction database provides up to 10 years of history. Business Relationships Details on a companys customers, suppliers, strategic alliances and key relationship types. Private Equity Private equity rm proles including investment professionals, limited partners, investment criteria, areas of interest and fund data.

ESTIMATES

S&P Capital IQ Estimates Standardized database of global, real-time nancial forecasting measures, such as upgrades/downgrades, target price revisions and market-moving news. Also includes estimates based on projections, models, analysis and research from analysts, brokers and the companies themselves. Annual, quarterly and semi-annual time periods. History is from 1996 for international companies and from 1999 for U.S. companies.

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OWNERSHIP

S&P Capital IQ Ownership Detailed equity ownership data on over 55,000 public and private companies worldwide consisting of institutional, mutual fund and insider/individual owners.

INDICES & CONSTITUENTS

S&P Indices Index- and constituent security-level data reecting changes and adjustments to index composition and constituent weightings of the S&P, ASX and TSX indices. EURO 350 will be added in the near future. MSCI Index- and constituent security-level data for the MSCI global equity benchmark indices. Daily and monthly index-level history for developed markets is from 1970, in addition to daily and monthly history for emerging markets from 1987. Constituent-level data is available for both developed and emerging markets. A rolling 13 months of daily data history and a rolling seven years of monthly data history is available. Russell Index- and constituent security-level data reecting changes and adjustments to index composition and constituent weightings for the U.S. and MicroCap Russell indices. Current and historical constituent data with monthly history back to 1978 and index daily market data back to 1984 is available.

INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATIONS

GICS DirectSM A joint product of S&P Capital IQ and MSCI, GICS Direct includes the current classication for active companies in more than 110 countries and provides more than 40,000 company classications and covers over 45,000 global securities. Historical Databases GICS historical databases (GICS North America History & GICS International History) are available as add-on products and provide historical company-level global industry classication codes. The amount of history varies by company, with the earliest start date being 1985.

STANDARD & POORS CREDIT RATINGS

Credit Ratings Credit ratings on more than 9,000 global issuers including corporates, nancial institutions and insurance companies; 600 sovereigns, and international and U.S. public nance entities; and 18,000 structured nance transactions

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