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FactSet chooses Telekurs VDF for Superior Securities Reference and Descriptive Data

Stamford, 07 December 2005 - Conn. Long known as a leading provider of financial intelligence to the global investment community, FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS) has chosen the Valordata Feed from Telekurs Financial to augment its securities master file.


The Valordata Feed (VDF) includes security descriptions, global instrument and issuer identifiers as well as corporate actions and events. VDF delivers information from Telekurs’ database of structured, encoded securities information. Covering over 2.5 million instruments, VDF includes information about issuers, trading places, prices, underlying instruments, security and entity identification schemes, ratings, payment events and corporate actions.

“We chose the Valordata Feed from Telekurs for its combination of structured database and fully encoded data, as well as for the flexible instrument selection and output formats. We appreciate their extensive global coverage and high quality,” said Robert J. Magri, Vice President and Director of FactSet Content and Strategic Partnerships.

As a leader in its field, Telekurs Financial specializes in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information for investment advisory services, asset management, financial analysis and securities administration. Maintained by Telekurs Financial through its 20 global offices, the Company’s database is unparalleled throughout the world in terms of both depth and data coverage.

“FactSet has been a customer of Telekurs’ data services for many years, and we are pleased that they have chosen to enhance their research services using our Valordata Feed,” said Barry Raskin, President of Telekurs (USA) Inc.

About Telekurs Financial

Telekurs Financial is a division of the Telekurs Group, which operates in the fields of financial information, payment transactions and IT services. As a leader in its field, Telekurs Financial specializes in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information for investment advisory services, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration.

A global network of local financial market specialists procures real-time stock exchange information straight from the leading financial centers. Containing over 2.5 million financial instruments, the database of structured, encoded securities information maintained by Telekurs Financial and its representative offices abroad is unparalleled throughout the world in terms of both depth and data coverage.

As the official numbering agency for Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, Telekurs Financial is responsible for allocating Swiss security (Valor) numbers. It is a founding member of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and leads the way in introducing standards aimed at simplifying trading and securities administration.

Telekurs (USA) Inc. is one of 20 Telekurs Financial offices located in 15 major financial centers around the world, and is one of the Company's regional data collection centers that is responsible for direct sourcing of descriptive and market data from nearly 200 global exchanges, 400 third-party contributors and a number of news agencies. With such far-reaching coverage of global markets consolidated into a single, normalized data feed, Telekurs Financial offers one of the most comprehensive data feeds available today.

For more information, visit www.tkusa.com

About FactSet Research Systems Inc.

FactSet Research Systems Inc. is a leading provider of global financial and economic information, including fundamental data on tens of thousands of companies worldwide.

Combining more than 200 databases into its own dedicated online service, the Company also provides the tools to download, combine and manipulate the data for investment analysis.

The Company, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, was formed in 1978 and now conducts operations, along with its affiliates, from more than twenty-two locations worldwide, including Boston, New York, Chicago, San Mateo, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney.

For more information, visit www.factset.com

     

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