XigniteCorporateActions Overview

Global Corporate Actions Information API

This API offers corporate action events initiated by issuers of global equities. With a broad coverage spanning more than 600,000 global issuers of stocks, ETFs, depository receipts, and bonds, this API covers multiple corporate action events including mergers & acquisitions, splits and reverse splits, dividend history, reorganizations, consolidations, repurchases, new issues and more.

Key Features

• Historical data back to 1/1/2000
• Corporate actions at individual issue level for complete exchange
• Dividend history and split histories
• Corporate actions filter by issuer, instrument and security details
• Issuer transformations at individual issue level or for complete exchange
• Instrument transformations at individual instrument level or for complete exchange
• Track payment history at issue level or for complete exchange

Key Benefits

• Use a single easy-to-use API to access global corporate actions data
• Eliminate the risk of missing corporate action events
• Eliminate the need to painfully reconcile global corporate actions from multiple sources
• Keep your local security master and portfolio accounting systems accurate
• Access institutional quality real-time corporate action data through an easy-to-use API
• Easily embed corporate action data in your applications--including back-office, mid-office and front-office applications
• Dramatically reduce time to market for apps that need corporate action data
• Eliminate the pains and complexity of legacy feeds by using cloud APIs

Key Data Points

• Dividends: Dividend history, dividend classification, pay date, record date, ex-date, amount and more...
• Splits: Split ratio, ex-date
• Distribution Sets: Distribution type, entitled person, dividend classification, payment frequency, record date, declared date, ex-date, meeting date, amount, and more...
• Issuer Transformation: Name changes, company identifier changes, domicile changes, industry and sector classification changes, active and inactive date
• Payments: Payment type, amount, pay date, ex-date, payment type, payment status, subscription price, and more...