Columba future events data and solutions
It's imperative for financial institutions to track and monitor the performance of companies and markets. Every reporting season offers a huge range of events that can affect the financial fortunes of companies - not just their results announcements, but trading statements, economic indicators and speeches at industry conferences.
Getting an accurate and complete picture on key upcoming events in a market, a region or a single company can be slow and painstaking.
While data service providers have recognised the importance of access to future event data for financial services clients, they typically provide it as a subset of their core market data offering or transcripts service. Their data is often US centric, inaccurate and covers only a very small number of event types.
This has compelled many organisations to employ teams of personnel to undertake the time-consuming and error-prone task of collecting future event data by visiting company websites and speaking with investor relations teams. More time is spent compiling reports of the key events for the week ahead and manually entering event details into investment professional's desktop calendars.
Columba data, products and services can overcome these issues to save valuable time and money. We provide:
- An international focus - we know how to efficiently and accurately collect future event data in Europe, Asia and the emerging markets.
- Coverage of a wider range of event types - these include trading statements, road shows and conferences, all of which can have a major impact on share prices.
- Unsurpassed data accuracy - we understand that inaccurate dates have a major effect on investment decisions and on a bank's reputation.
Traders, analysts and fund managers in leading financial institutions are already finding immense value in Columba solutions as they consider investment decisions.
The Columba solution set
We offer a range of flexible solutions:
- Columba Future Events Data Feed - a comprehensive XML feed of future event data for rapid integration into any application or database.
- Columba Online - a service which offers access to all our future events content via an easy to use web-based future event calendar application with portfolio management facilities.
- Columba Exchange Integration Service - a service that synchronises events for a portfolio, watch list or index with MS Outlook™ calendars and Blackberry™ devices.
- Columba Week Ahead Reports - a service that delivers portfolio or index specific week ahead reports in Microsoft Excel™ format.
- Columba Platform - a secure event calendar solution enabling you to combine Columba data with internal research material in order to present a complete overview of the day, week or month ahead. You can design your own interfaces, add your own internal events and automate the process of generating client notes and reports.