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XigniteGlobalCorporateActions Overview

Global Corporate Actions API

The Corporate Actions API offers event data initiated by issuers of global equities. Our broad coverage spans more than 190 global exchanges and over 30,000 U.S. Mutual funds. Our service organizes days of and historical events including cash and stock dividends, forward splits, reverse splits, initial public offerings, mergers, takeovers, symbol changes, instrument changes, security reclassification, and listing changes.

Key Features

  • Global coverage of corporate action events at the issuer, instrument, and security levels
  • Future events as confirmed by issuers for accounting and record purposes
  • Lookup active and inactive global securities, instruments, and issuers using multiple identifier types
  • Seamless event identification and mapping with Xignite EventIdentifier
  • Automatic identifier stitching for corporate action events such as symbol or ticker changes, instrument changes on reverse splits, mergers, and acquisitions resulting in one-to-one instrument transformations, stock listing moving from one exchange to another
  • Lookup by Identifier as of a known active date
  • Future IPO listing dates by exchange
  • Detailed merger, takeover, and spinoff events
  • Event notes sourced from company announcements and press releases
  • High-level event summaries by security timeline or by exchange
  • Dividend details, including optional payments, as declared by the issuer
  • Historical corporate actions data back to 1/1/2000

Key Benefits

  • Use a single easy-to-use corporate actions API
  • 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 corporate action APIs

Data Coverage At-A-Glance

  • Asset Classes: Global equities, ETFs, U.S. mutual funds, depository receipts, structured products, warrants
  • Exchanges Covered: More than 190 exchanges

Key Data Points

  • Security changes: Symbol, reclassification, lot change, name change, swaps
  • Instrument Changes: CUSIP, ISIN
  • Issuer changes: Merger, takeover, spinoff, name change, incorporation change, liquidation
  • Listing Status: New listings, delistings, suspensions, resume listings, pending IPOs, move listings
  • Dividends: Cash and stock dividends, franked dividends
  • Distribution Sets: Distribution type, dividend classification, payment frequency, record date, declared date, ex-date, optional payments
  • Splits: Forward and reverse splits, split ratio, ex date
  • Event Notes: Announcements and press releases

Frequently Asked Questions