FT Interactive Data

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FT Interactive Data
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Marco Sablone

• Account Manager - Italy

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• FT Interactive Data is the major operating
  subsidiary
• of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSEIDC),
• a leading global provider of financial and
  business information to institutional and
  individual investors.
• Interactive Data Corporation delivers real-time,
  end-of-day and historically archived data to its
  customers.

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Interactive Data Corporation
Institutional Services
Retail Investor Services
(in Europe BondEdge is sold under the FT
Interactive Data name)
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Interactive Data Corporation, Pearson and the FT
Group

• Interactive Data Corporation is approximately 60
  per cent owned by Pearson plc and included within
  Pearsons Financial Times Group. Pearson plc is
  an international media company with market
  leading businesses in education, business
  information and consumer publishing.

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Interactive Data Corporation Financials

• Total revenues
• 2001 US million 340,002
• 2002 US million 375,015
• 2003 US million 442,690

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Interactive Data Corporation Global Reach,
Local Presence

• Approx. 2,000 employees in more
• than 20 offices in North America,
• Europe, Asia and Australia

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FT Interactive Data

• FT Interactive Data is a leading provider of
  global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend,
  corporate action and descriptive information
  supporting fund pricing, securities operations,
  research and portfolio management.
• FT Interactive Data - through BondEdge - is also
  a recognised leader in fixed income portfolio
  analytical software, independent research and
  valuation tools.

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FT Interactive DataFigures that Make Sense
3.5m securities
2.5m fixed income issues
150 markets
Up to 34 years history - both adjusted and
unadjusted
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Adding Value to Raw Data
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A World of Securities Data
Pricing Intra-day
End-of-day Bond Evaluations (debt)
Descriptive Data
Coupon rates
Maturity dates
Drawing rights
Sinking funds
Calls puts
Capital events
Conversion data
Income data
FRN files
Takeovers mergers
Issue data
Earnings
Industry classifications
Guarantor information
Credit ratings
Index constituents
Warrant exercise data
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Bond Evaluations Daily evaluated pricing for
fixed income securities
Embedded options
High yield debt
2.5 million
Private placements
Investment grade corporates
Fixed floating rate notes
Covered bonds
Daily Bond Evaluations
Government debt
Emerging market debt
Eurobonds
MTNs
Globals
MBS pass-throughs
Domestic
Discount notes
25 currencies
US municipals
Strips
Convertible bonds preferreds
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Bond Evaluations Daily evaluated pricing for
fixed income securities

• FT Interactive Data
• Has over 25 years of expertise in the US bond
  markets
• Is a leading independent provider of daily
  evaluations for fixed income securities
• Is a primary supplier of evaluated pricing to
  more than 4,000 global financial institutions

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Bond Evaluations Daily evaluated pricing for
fixed income securities

• FT Interactive Datas pricing methodology
  combines
• Proven in-house modelling techniques
• Information from extensive market sources
• Pricing analysts who fine tune individual prices
  to take account of market conditions and specific
  price-impacting events

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Corporate Actions STP

• Fully coded, computer-readable capital events,
  income and take-over and merger data

• Data process flows to assist with automation of
  corporate actions for STP, enabling customers to
• segment data into logical groups
• focus on key data items
• link securities and data sections

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Helping the Industry towards STP

• Working with Industry Bodies
• UK Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG)
• SWIFT
• Technical Standards Committee (TSC)
• ISITC
• FISD
• STP magazine
• RDG/REDAC

• Working with Open Data Standards Bodies
• ISO 15022
• MDDL

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FX Spot Forward Ratesfrom FT Interactive Data

• Intra-day FX spot and forward service
• Designed to meet the needs of the back office
• Updated every half hour
• Validated rates
• Global coverage

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Why use FT Interactive Datas FX Rates?

• No royalties
• Extended global spot coverage
• Rates against six majors
• Half hourly updates and non-delayed
• Customisable according to client specification
• Dedicated support

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Fund Market Place from CCLux via FT Interactive
Data

• Direct link to Fund Market Place via FTS, FT
  Interactive Datas online portfolio
  administration tool
• Fund Market Place offers complete coverage of
  Luxembourg-domiciled funds
• FT Interactive Data has formed a strategic
  alliance with CCLux to provide this new facility
• FT Interactive Data is the first vendor to
  provide access to this product

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FTS

• A world of securities data straight to your
  desktop

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FTS

• View global comprehensive securities data
• Download the data into your in-house or 3rd party
  software, in a format that suits you
• Customised service, tailored to your data and
  access requirements
• Track and receive reports on corporate actions
  relating to your securities

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FTS - Intuitive Online View

• Web-based
• Easy navigation using toolbar and tabs
• Quickly locate the security you are interested in
  using any code or by other criteria
• Customise your core screen so you only see the
  data you want

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FTS - Downloads

• Any data item can be downloaded
• Spreadsheet or computer-readable format
• Files are based on your portfolio
• Delivered monthly, daily or intra-day for pricing

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FTS - Corporate Action Tracking

• Securities Alert - alerts you, upon announcement,
  of any events occurring to your portfolio
• Events Diary - a reminder that an event is about
  to occur
• Events Calendar
• tailor corporate action requirements to your
  desktop
• research events that are imminent, in the future,
  or up to three years in the past

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Customer Support
Service design and set-up
Multi-lingual
Problem resolution
Designated Account Manager
Expert pre-sales advice
Proactive communication
Product training - initial and ongoing
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Italian Market

• FTS in Italian Language
• Local Support through Analysis
• Dedicated Italian Support from London

a complete range of data solutions from front
to back office
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Questions ?