Corporate Actions Data

Equity Corporate Actions

An overview of Equity Corporate Actions

  • The desire to mitigate the risk of errors and omissions arising – whilst containing processing expenses – creates a matching demand for timely, complete, accurate and well-structured Corporate Actions notifications.
  • We offer flexible, effective solutions. For example, via DataScope Select, in ISO 15022 MT 564/568 and Proprietary formats (user-defined XML/Delimited layouts). Extractions may be performed on an ad hoc or scheduled basis against custom portfolios. In the latter case, execution may be one-off or recurring for given days and times.
  • The underlying data are quality assured and published intra-day on a continuous (24x7) 15-minute cycle.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global (108 Nations).
  • History
    Capital Changes from 1974
    Dividends from 1976.
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    JSON
    Python
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    SFTP
  • Data frequency
    Continuous
    24x7x365.

Features & Benefits

What you get with Equity Corporate Actions

  • We track all stocks which are primarily listed (or quoted) on 200+ key venues situated within 108 nations (Argentina-Zimbabwe). That amounts to ~80k issuers and ~90k securities; across 156 Countries of Incorporation. This fully covers the FTSE Russell Global Equity Markets Index Series (GEIS) Developed (25), Advanced/Secondary Emerging (10/13) and Frontier (30) Market constituent lists. 50+ event types are considered.
  • Our (Proprietary) archive depth is generally 25+ years for Developed Markets. The G7 average is 40 years+; 5-10+ Emerging or Frontier. For Capital Changes, our earliest notification is dated in 1974; 300k+ records all-in. For Dividends, it’s 1976; 2.3m+.
  • We are a leading supplier of Holdings Disclosure information – offering a specialized data package of 160+ Shares, Voting Rights and Reference facts.

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