Interactive Data to Acquire Xcitek Market Data
April 04 2007 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of
financial market data, analytics and related services to financial
institutions, active traders and individual investors, today
announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets
comprising the market data division of Xcitek LLC, as well as the
market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax LLC, for $25.3 million
in cash. The transaction is expected to be completed within the
next several weeks, contingent upon customary closing conditions.
Xcitek�s market data business, which is based in New York City,
provides a broad range of North American corporate actions data,
including reorganization information, as well as valuable cost
basis and class action data. Xcitek provides this content to over
2,000 financial institutions worldwide through a variety of
delivery platforms including electronic datafeed services,
proprietary web-based offerings and an extensive network of
redistributors. Xcitek�s offerings have earned numerous industry
awards and accolades for accuracy, timeliness, coverage and
delivery reliability. This acquisition represents an important
element in Interactive Data�s strategy to expand its reference data
services and support enterprise-wide financial applications.
Reference data content has become a mission-critical component used
to ensure the timely processing of transactions, and help address
regulatory and reporting requirements. Institutions are
increasingly centralizing data administration and utilizing
reference data content to support risk management and compliance
applications. The addition of Xcitek Market Data�s corporate
actions data covering North American securities will enhance the
corporate actions content that Interactive Data Pricing and
Reference Data collects, processes and delivers to thousands of
financial institutions and redistribution partners around the
world. In addition, the Xcitek market data team will bring
expertise and experience in helping Interactive Data�s customers
address challenging corporate actions issues across front, middle
and back office environments. �Interactive Data continues to see
growing interest from institutional customers for reference data
and related services, which are used in both departmental and
enterprise-wide applications that span the front, middle and back
office,� stated Stuart Clark, president and chief executive officer
of Interactive Data. �Corporate actions for equity and fixed income
securities are a critical component of these services and the use
of this content ranges from populating security master files,
account statements and other workflow-intensive applications to
supporting research activities and risk management applications.
With the addition of Xcitek Market Data, we believe we will be
better positioned to directly collect and deliver a broader range
of mission-critical content, address our customers� emerging
enterprise-wide content and application requirements, and to
further advance our efforts to automate key data collection and
delivery processes.� Interactive Data has worked with Xcitek for
many years, with each company redistributing select sets of each
others� data to clients. Upon completion of the transaction, these
assets will be integrated into the Interactive Data Pricing and
Reference Data business. Xcitek�s market data business currently
employs approximately 45 people and it is expected that the vast
majority will join Interactive Data as employees following the
acquisition. Clark continued, �We see Xcitek�s market data business
as an excellent fit for our Pricing and Reference Data business in
terms of content, capability and culture. We have an extensive
history of collaboration with the Xcitek team and have long admired
their domain knowledge of corporate actions workflow across the
enterprise. Within our Pricing and Reference Data business, we have
historically delivered our own corporate actions offerings for
non-North American securities while working with Xcitek to augment
the corporate actions content on North American securities that we
provide to customers. We also view Xcitek�s cost basis and class
action services as innovative, highly complementary offerings which
are in the early stages of adoption by clients. By bringing Xcitek
into our organization, we believe that Interactive Data can extend
its global leadership in corporate actions and related information
with a broader range of compelling content, a more diverse set of
delivery platforms, and additional technical expertise and thought
leadership.� Joe Carvalhido, chief executive officer of Xcitek,
said, �We have been a partner with Interactive Data for more than
20 years. During that period, we have come to know and respect
Interactive Data and its products, people and culture. Going
forward, we have every confidence that joining with Interactive
Data is not only the right next step for our people, but also that,
together, we can bring more opportunities, service and value to
customers.� Based on the unaudited financial statements provided to
Interactive Data, Xcitek�s market data business generated 2006
revenue of approximately $9.0 million (net of $0.8 million
generated from Interactive Data Corporation businesses) with
operating expenses (net of $0.2 million in royalties payable to
Interactive Data Corporation), including depreciation, of
approximately $7.3 million. Assuming the transaction closes within
the next several weeks, Interactive Data anticipates that the
transaction will be cash flow positive but earnings neutral in
2007, and, through a combination of planned revenue growth and
operational synergies, accretive to earnings in 2008. The
acquisition does not include XcitekSolutionsPlus, LLC (XSP), a
software company affiliated with Xcitek LLC nor does it include
Xcitek Consulting Services Inc. (XCS), both of which will continue
to operate as independent entities. Marlin & Associates New
York LLC (�M&A�) was the exclusive strategic and financial
advisor to Xcitek LLC. Interactive Data Corporation Forward-looking
and Cautionary Statements This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Federal securities
laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and
laws. Forward-looking statements include our statements discussing
future financial conditions, results or projections, including
statements relating to (i) the anticipated impact of the Xcitek
Market Data acquisition on our business, including any impact on
our earnings and cash flow, (ii) the anticipated timing of the
closing, (iii) our plans to expand the services we offer to Xcitek
Market Data, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data or
Interactive Data customers, (iv) our ability to penetrate new
markets for our services as a result of the acquisition and
accomplish our other strategic objectives, (v) our ability to
facilitate better use of our content by our customers, and (vi) our
plans to combine Xcitek Market Data and Interactive Data Pricing
and Reference Data�s products and services to achieve cost-savings
synergies and revenue growth. These statements are subject to known
and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors
that may cause actual results to be materially different from those
contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Such factors
include: the acquisition may not close on a timely basis or at all;
our ability to successfully integrate the Xcitek Market Data
business; and our ability to retain key employees of Xcitek Market
Data. Other factors include, but are not limited to: (i) the
presence of competitors with greater financial resources than ours
and their strategic response to our services and products; (ii) a
possible decline in activity levels in the global securities
markets; (iii) new offerings by competitors or new technologies
that could cause our products or services to become less
competitive or obsolete; and (iv) other factors identified in our
most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We
undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
About Xcitek Market Data Xcitek�s market data offerings include
Corporate Actions, Municipal Actions, Cost Basis, Class Actions,
Securities Payments, and other financial data. We serve over 2,000
institutional clients worldwide, directly and through our
distributors. Our information impacts millions of investors through
brokerage, trust and custody statements. Ranked #1 for more than
ten consecutive years by The Summit Group, Xcitek has led all other
providers in its category in such areas as data accuracy, data
timeliness, coverage, and delivery reliability. User-friendly,
flexible, and affordable, Xcitek�s web-based solutions deliver
time-sensitive and critical information straight to the desk-top.
About Interactive Data Corporation Interactive Data Corporation
(NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data,
analytics and related services to financial institutions, active
traders and individual investors. The Company�s businesses supply
time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for more
than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including
hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial
service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services
in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and
valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data
Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services,
Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company
has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout
North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is
headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON),
an international media company, whose businesses include the
Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group,
owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of
Interactive Data Corporation. Interactive Data Pricing and
Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and
reference data designed to support financial institutions� and
investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations,
research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and
Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more
than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for
approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity
issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specializes in
�hard-to-get� information from emerging markets and evaluates many
�hard-to value� instruments. Pricing, evaluations and reference
data are provided in the U.S. through Interactive Data Pricing and
Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data
(Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd. For more
information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses,
please visit www.interactivedata.com.
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