116 European-Based Brokerage Firms Now Use FIRST CALL Research Direct to Distribute Their Research Reports.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999-- More than 300 Brokerage Firms Worldwide Contribute to FIRST CALL Research Direct Of the more than 300 brokerage firms worldwide that use FIRST CALL Research Direct to distribute their full-text research reports, 116 are based in Europe. These include ABN AMRO ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) Hoare Govett, HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) Securities and Warburg Dillon Read Investment bank created by the 1997 merger of S.G. Warburg & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Subsequently renamed UBS Warburg and now part of UBS AG, where the Warburg name was eventually dropped. . First Call is a Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings company. Equity Development, the leading source of research on smaller quoted companies in the United Kingdom, is the most recent European-based broker to use Research Direct. Though the largest concentration of European contributors to Research Direct is in the United Kingdom, brokerage firms from more than a dozen European countries use the service to distribute their research to their institutional clients worldwide. "Since we service institutional money managers across the globe, it is imperative that we provide them with localized content from local brokerage firms," said Timothy Bryan, executive vice president of First Call's Capital Markets Group. "Money managers in Europe interested in European-based companies want to know what analysts in Europe think of those companies. Localized content is as important to them as research reports from the larger, more global firms." More than 300 brokerage firms worldwide, including all of Institutional Investor's top 20 ranked U.S. research firms, use Research Direct to electronically distribute their research and earnings models in real-time. More than 22,500 money managers worldwide in turn use Research Direct to access the more than 1,000,000 broker-sourced research reports available on the service. In the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. alone, 98 percent of institutional money management firms subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; First Call's research services, as measured by actively managed assets. First Call Corp. is the global financial community's leading source of real-time broker-sourced research, earnings estimates, equity and fixed income ownership information, insider trading information, and corporate news releases. Visit First Call's Web site at www.firstcall.com. Thomson Financial is a US$1 billion provider of information services See Information Systems. and work solutions to the worldwide financial community. For more information, visit www.thomsonfinancial.com. |
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