BRIDGE & Telerate Launch Version 6.3.3 Of Workstation Products; New Product Software Brings Financial Intelligence to Flagship BRIDGE and TELERATE Workstations.Business & High Tech Editors SIA Sia (sī`ə) or Siaha (sī`əhə), in the Bible, family returned from the Exile. SIA - Serial Interface Adaptor Booth 2201 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 BRIDGE Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)) the largest provider of financial information services See Information Systems. in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. Telerate, announced today the release of BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation version 6.3.3. Incorporating new core software released this week, BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 provide rich third-party applications, giving users quality real-time market data and powerful interactive functionality in an increasingly open environment. Both BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 products have integrated Heatmaps(TM) visual displays from NeoVision and TimeMachine(TM), IDEAglobal.com's proprietary interactive browser for delivering ideaglobal.com's range of financial research products. Unique to Telerate Workstation 6.3.3, the product offers as an optional service, Telerate FXAnalytics from Derivity Ltd, giving users the ability to calculate a wide variety of money market and foreign exchange instruments, such as spots, forwards, FRAs, interest rate swaps Interest Rate Swap A deal between banks or companies where borrowers switch floating-rate loans for fixed rate loans in another country. These can be either the same or different currencies. and currency options. BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 also offer new features and functions including an enhanced OptionWatch capability and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. content in NewsWatch. Customers have access to all of these applications via the Telerate Workstation and BridgeStation product suites from a single connection to the SAVVIS network. SAVVIS is a leading Intelligent IP services provider based in St. Louis, MO. "BRIDGE Information Systems is committed to continually enhancing and improving its workstation products in order to stay current with our customer's needs as they continue to evolve with the growth of the global financial marketplace," said Harry Temkin, BRIDGE Executive Vice President, Product Marketing and Development. "By enhancing the product features and bundling leading third party applications, BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 offer an incredible depth and breadth of information, displays, analytics and transaction support tools in an open environment, giving our customers a competitive edge in the marketplace." BRIDGE has partnered with NeoVision, a leader in software for the financial industry, to provide Heatmaps Express and Heatmaps Pro for BridgeStation and Telerate Workstation products. NeoVision Heatmaps(TM) are customizable displays of real-time, database, and other proprietary information. Heatmap's open architecture enables users to integrate vast amounts of available information and present it in easy-to-comprehend visual displays. By presenting the information in a visual format, users are able to analyze and comprehend much more market data information in a shorter time period when compared to traditional charts and spreadsheets. An additional third party application now available within BridgeStation 6.3.3 and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 is IDEAglobal.com's Time Machine(TM), which displays IDEAglobal.com's breaking news and analysis covering global FX, Fixed Income and Equity markets. Using TimeMachine, Telerate and BRIDGE customers have access to intraday Intraday Another way of saying "within the day." Notes: This term is often used for the new highs and lows of a security. For example, "a new intraday high" means a security reached a new all-time high throughout the trading day, but then fell by closing. analysis displayed under topic-specific tabs and the ability to conduct a full text search of TimeMachine's database of IDEAglobal.com content. Working in conjunction with Telerate, Derivity Ltd. has produced Telerate FXAnalytics, a powerful new foreign exchange and money market analysis application available to Telerate clients as an additional value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. service in Telerate Plus and Telerate2. Telerate FXAnalytics calculates a wide variety of money market and foreign exchange instruments and is fully integrated with the new range of leading edge Telerate platforms, workstations and datafeed products. This product, offered by Telerate, gives global traders more control and strategic options for trading than ever before. Also new to BridgeStation 6.3.3 and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 is the enhanced OptionWatch application, which allows the user the choice of running the application either in static mode or in real-time. BRIDGE has enhanced its OptionWatch due to increases in Option transaction rates, which tie up a user's valuable bandwidth. Running in static mode with a refresh option allows the user to have full access to the complete Option analytics and depth of market without the large amounts of real-time traffic. Users who still require the real-time access to Option chains can still access this information over the same single connection to BRIDGE. Another new feature in BridgeStation 6.3.3 and Telerate Workstation 6.3.3 is the capability of NewsWatch to display HTML content, and the first source is BRIDGE's own EDGAR Edgar or Eadgar (both: ĕd`gər), 943?–975, king of the English (959–75), son of Edmund, king of Wessex. In 957 the Mercians and Northumbrians rebelled against Edgar's brother Edwy and chose Edgar as their king. data. BRIDGE EDGAR contains all of the SEC disclosure documents for public companies and mutual funds, including annual 10K and quarterly 10Q reports and proxy statements Proxy Statement A document containing the information that a company is required by the SEC to provide to shareholders so they can make informed decisions about matters that will be brought up at an annual stockholder meeting. for all public companies, along with prospectuses and semiannual Semiannual An event that occurs twice in a calendar year. Notes: A bond with semiannual coupons would issue payment once every six months. See also: Annual, Bond, Coupon Bond reports for mutual fund companies. BRIDGE's enhanced NewsWatch display provides hyperlinked tables of content allowing easy navigation through these normally large documents. In addition, users can search and/or profile by symbols and categories (including filing types). About BRIDGE BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon , BRIDGE Information Systems, Telerate, Bridge Trading, eBRIDGE, and BridgeNews, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America - and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news affecting financial markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, MO., and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. About Telerate Telerate, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Markets, was acquired by BRIDGE Information Systems in May 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BRIDGE. Through terminals, data feeds and web browser-based applications, Telerate supplies data, analytics and news for the fixed income, foreign exchange, money, derivatives and energy markets to more than 90,000 users globally. More than twenty-five years ago, Telerate pioneered electronic delivery of financial information in the fixed income markets. Today, Telerate, a leading provider of real-time financial information, is further enhanced by the inclusion of BRIDGE news and equity data into Telerate products and upgraded technology. Visit us at www.telerate.com. |
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