The Best Kept Secret Feature of Our Corporate Bond Master Service
First Published Thursday, 1st April 2010 02:06 pm from Xand : ChasCooper
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If you look at our new href="http://www.xignite.com/xBondMaster.asmx">corporate bond
master service, XigniteBondMaster, you'll
quickly see that you can use it to get information for over
125,000 U.S. corporate bonds, including issuer information,
maturity dates, coupon rates and so on. But you're not
likely to see one of the best features of the service until you
roll up your sleeves and start digging around in the data: the
ability to look up official CUSIP identifiers with remarkable
ease.
CUSIP identifiers are highly valued
throughout the industry as the de facto
standard for uniquely identifying over 9.1 million financial
instruments. And now you can easily look up CUSIPs for thousands
of corporate bonds using XigniteBondMaster. Interested in a
particular issue, but not sure what its CUSIP is? Try looking it
up by the href="http://www.xignite.com/xBondMaster.asmx?op=LookupBondsByIssuer">bond
issuer! Or just look it up by href="http://www.xignite.com/xBondMaster.asmx?op=LookupBondsByName">bond
name.
All CUSIP data comes from
CUSIP Global Services, an organization managed by Standard
& Poor's on behalf of the American Bankers Association
specifically to oversee the official set of CUSIP
identifiers.
You do need to have an agreement
in place with CUSIP Global Services in order to receive CUSIP
data, since this is highly valued data that must be licensed
first. But once you have an agreement in place, CUSIPs will
automatically start appearing in your XigniteBondMaster
outputs.
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