Standard & Poor.

Credit ratings are going high-tech. Since April, Standard & Poor's has been offering RatingsExpress -- realtime ratings data in eXtensible Markup Language See XML.

(language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web.

http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML
in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ), enabling users to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and customize information, then disseminate dis·sem·i·nate
v. dis·sem·i·nat·ed, dis·sem·i·nat·ing, dis·sem·i·nates

v.tr.
1. To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.

2. it to back-office operations, Web sites, online financial exchanges and corporate intranets.

S&P said the service gives secure access to detailed ratings on more than 645,000 issues and 30,000 users worldwide -- including current and historical data. Data can be delivered either by push or pull technology, by downloading downloading - download from the S&P site or having S&P send the data directly to the company server.

The information covers the breadth of S&P's ratings activity, including global issuers, structured finance and U.S. public finance markets. This includes corporates, financial institutions and insurance companies, sovereign issues, general obligation debts, project finance and industrial revenue bonds. S&P says RatingsExpress provides detailed ratings at both the issue and issuer level, with profiles including long- and short-term ratings, historical ratings and Credit Watch listings.

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Title Annotation:	RatingsExpress
Publication:	Financial Executive
Article Type:	Statistical Data Included
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Jul 1, 2001
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