What Exchange Data International does

Exchange Data International (EDI), founded in 1994 and headquartered in London, is a privately held, founder-owned provider of financial reference data specializing in corporate actions, pricing, and security reference information for the global securities industry. The firm aggregates data from approximately 700 sources across 150+ exchanges in 35 languages, processing roughly 25 million corporate actions per year, and delivers them through text-extraction pipelines that output normalized JSON for ingestion by downstream trading, custody, and back-office systems. EDI holds ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications, making it eligible for regulated financial-institution procurement where vendor due-diligence standards are stringent.

The company's product set spans corporate-actions coverage (dividends, splits, M&A events, bankruptcies), end-of-day and intraday pricing, securities reference data, and regulated disclosure feeds including exchange filings. Customers are predominantly institutional: global custodians, asset managers, investment banks, transfer agents, market-data redistributors, and wealth-management platforms that license EDI feeds to underpin middle- and back-office workflows. Products are delivered via APIs, feeds, and cloud marketplaces including Snowflake, with redistributor and white-label relationships extending EDI's reach into third-party platforms. Distribution has been progressively diversified through the Pyth Network (blockchain oracles) and Orbit (exchange filings) partnerships, adding decentralized-finance and regulated-disclosure routes to the legacy enterprise channel.

EDI operates a sales-led, enterprise-B2B go-to-market underpinned by annual subscription contracts with minimum 1-year terms and built-in 6% annual price escalators. The firm has been bootstrapped since founding and has not raised outside equity, with revenue primarily recurring and linked to the scale of instruments and events covered. With approximately 500 employees and 30+ years of operating history, EDI is a mature, mid-scale reference-data provider whose principal competitive levers are source breadth, multi-language coverage, and integration depth into customer operational workflows. The combination of founder-ownership, absence of external funding, and consistent industry recognition (consecutive DMI Awards 2021-2025) positions the firm as a financially disciplined incumbent rather than a venture-backed growth challenger.

Name

Exchange Data International

Legal name

Exchange Data International Limited

Website

https://exchange-data.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Exchange Data International is a London-based, founder-owned financial reference data provider founded in 1994, delivering corporate-action, pricing, and securities reference data from approximately 700 sources across 150+ exchanges to global custodians, asset managers, investment banks, and redistributors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Market Data

NAICS

Securities and Commodity Exchanges (52321), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Distribution, Connectivity & Market Data Platforms (Entitlements, Normalization, APIs) (FSAFAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

Keywords

• Corporate actions data
• Financial reference data
• Market data feeds
• Fixed income pricing
• Equity pricing data

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Financial Data Subscription Services: EDI provides corporate actions, pricing, and reference data to institutions and financial service firms on an annual subscription basis. The minimum subscription period is one year, with annual increases of 6%. Clients own their data rather than renting it, and EDI offers flexible licensing, redistribution and resale agreements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Exchange Data International (EDI) compiles and redistributes global financial market data — primarily corporate actions, pricing, and reference data — sourced from 700+ providers across 150+ exchanges in 35 languages, processing approximately 25 million corporate actions annually. Data is delivered to financial institutions and service firms via API, SFTP, Amazon S3, Snowflake, XML, TAB, TXT, and online platforms under annual subscription licenses with flexible, customer-owned data terms.

Product overview

Exchange Data International (EDI) provides a comprehensive financial data platform offering multiple interconnected product categories. The core offerings include Worldwide Equity Corporate Actions (covering 150+ exchanges and 45 event types), Worldwide Fixed Income data, Pricing Data (including End of Day Pricing, Yield Curves, Reference Rates, and FX rates), Reference Data (Securities Reference Files, Corporate Actions), Derivative Data (including US Options and FLEX Options), Economic Data (Global Economic Indicators, Calendar, Central Bank Meetings), and Investment Funds data. EDI also offers specialized add-on modules including Dividend Forecasting (Woodseer), Options Analytics, Geopolitical Risk Forecasting (ICRG), and Exchange Filings (machine-readable regulatory disclosures via Orbit partnership). The platform delivers data via SFTP, API, and multiple formats including TXT, XML, and JSON. EDI serves 700+ sources in 35 languages, processing 25 million corporate actions annually.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Worldwide Equity Corporate Actions
• Exchange Filings
• Worldwide Fixed Income
• Worldwide Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing
• End of Day Pricing Data
• Worldwide Yield Curves
• Reference & Interest Rates and Yield Curve
• Official Foreign Exchange Rates
• Foreign Exchange Rates
• OTC Data
• Worldwide Dividends
• Securities Reference File
• Worldwide Shares Outstanding
• Dividend Forecasting (Woodseer)
• DerivActions
• Derivatives End of Day Pricing
• Derivatives Reference Data
• Futures and Options Contract Specifications
• Corporate Actions US Options
• US Options Reference Data
• Ortex Short Interest Data and Analysis
• Global Economic Indicators
• Global Economic Calendar
• Central Bank Meetings Calendar
• Geopolitical Risk Forecasting (ICRG)
• Initial Public Offerings
• Bespoke Data Offerings
• Worldwide Equity Analytics
• Worldwide Options Analytics
• FundsCAB
• Global Investment Funds (ex US)
• US Mutual Funds
• Sovereign Debt Coverage & Database
• Municipal Bond Pricing
• Global Market and Public Holidays
• Financial Indices

Quantifiable outcome

• 25 million corporate actions processed annually from 700 sources across 150+ exchanges
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Pyth NetworkcoreTechnology or Integration · 10 April 2026Exchange Data International joined the Pyth Network as a data publisher, making its proprietary data available through onchain infrastructure. EDI is one of six major financial institutions (alongside Euronext FX, Fidelity Investments, OTC Markets Group, SGX FX, and Tradeweb) publishing data through the Pyth Data Marketplace, enabling distribution of FX, precious metals, and reference data across 100+ blockchains while retaining control over attribution and pricing.
• OrbitcoreTechnology or IntegrationEDI's Exchange Filings product is delivered through partnership with Orbit, enabling instant, machine-readable access to company disclosures from 80+ countries and 120+ exchanges, normalized into a developer-friendly JSON format.
• Information Publishing Limited (IPL)coreOthersEDI appears to be associated with Information Publishing Limited (IPL), with shared branding and the IPL logo visible in the footer. The company references 'EDI and/or its suppliers' in terms and conditions, suggesting related entities within the group.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SIX Financial Information (now part of SIX Group): SIX Financial Information is the closest direct competitor to EDI, providing global reference data, corporate actions, and pricing for financial institutions across exchanges worldwide. Both businesses aggregate, normalize, and redistribute market data feeds to banks, asset managers, and market data vendors.
• LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) Data & Analytics: LSEG's Data & Analytics division (formed from the Refinitiv acquisition) is a major peer in reference data, corporate actions, and pricing feeds, serving the same global buy-side and sell-side institutional client base. EDI explicitly competes with Refinitiv on reference data quality and licensing flexibility.
• ICE Data Services: ICE Data Services (built from Interactive Data and acquired assets) provides evaluated pricing, reference data, and corporate actions for fixed income, derivatives, and equities. Direct overlap with EDI's Worldwide Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing and corporate actions products.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence serves investment professionals with reference data, fundamentals, and corporate actions. Following the IHS Markit acquisition, S&P is a scaled competitor in nearly every product category EDI operates in.
• FactSet: FactSet delivers financial data and analytics to buy-side and sell-side firms, with overlapping coverage of corporate actions, pricing, and reference data. Distribution via workstation positions FactSet as both a competitor and channel for embedded data suppliers like EDI.
• IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global): IHS Markit (now integrated into S&P Global) was a major peer in corporate actions, reference data, and evaluated pricing for fixed income, often cited alongside EDI in industry awards. Direct overlap in pricing and reference data services.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg LP: Bloomberg Terminal bundles market data, reference data, and analytics as part of a broader workflow product. While EDI cannot match the terminal bundle, Bloomberg competes head-to-head for corporate actions and pricing data subscriptions at large financial institutions.
• Morningstar: Morningstar provides investment data, research, and analytics to institutional and retail clients, with overlap in fund data, equity reference data, and corporate actions. The breadth of Morningstar's offering positions it as a broader competitor to EDI's specialized catalogue.

Emerging players

• Wolters Kluwer Financial Services: Wolters Kluwer provides regulatory and compliance data, with overlap in sanctions monitoring (EDI's Global Sanctions Monitoring product) and reference data for compliance workflows. Comparable as a regulated-data vendor serving financial institutions.
• Xignite: Xignite is a financial data API provider serving fintechs and digital platforms with market data feeds. Similar API-first delivery model targeting cloud-native and fintech customers, though with narrower scope than EDI.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/exchangedata
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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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