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Information Needs Grow At Lovells
Perfect Information Signs Three Year Global Deal to Provide Law Firm's Financial Data
London - 14th October 2008 - Perfect Information (PI), a global provider of financial information, today announced that it has signed a three year global deal with Lovells to provide the firm with PI Filings and PI Debt. PI Filings comprises nearly nine million company filings and PI Debt provides users with a comprehensive fixed income securities database. Both PI Filings and PI Debt have been rolled out to fee earners' desktops in parts of the firm and are available to all desktops within Lovell's information centres, signifying an increase in the law firm's use of financial data. "The current financial climate seems to have had little impact on the amount of financial research we carry out," said Robin Hall, Vendor Relations Manager, Lovells. "Response times to our own client base are paramount and having fast access to reliable financial data is as important as ever. When we looked to ramp up our information resources, PI was the natural choice and we are confident that we can enjoy best of breed products and customer service for the next three years." PI Filings PI Filings is a global financial database containing nearly nine million indexed and tagged corporate financial documents including: annual reports; bond prospectuses; structured finance deals; pricing supplements; sovereign and corporate issues; global IPO and M&A documents; private placements; news announcements; shareholder filings; FSA returns; regulatory accounts; sustainability reports; SEC filings and UK private company data. PI Debt Designed exclusively for the Debt Capital Markets professional, PI Debt provides access to an online database of over 250,000 fixed income securities archived since 1986. Perfect Information is the definitive supplier of a comprehensive and timely source of original debt documentation including bond prospectuses, supplements and related documents. The document collection includes: Convertible Bonds; CDO Bonds; Euro-Commercial Paper; Asset Backed; High Yield Bonds; Floating Rate Bonds; MTNs; Guaranteed Bonds; Mortgage Bonds; Debentures; Pricing Supplements; and Secured Loan Stock. "This three year deal perfectly illustrates that by staying close to your customers, you understand exactly what they need and as a result, both parties benefit," said Greg Simidian, CEO, Perfect Information. "We understood that Lovells wanted a best-of-breed product and not a highly integrated, multi-content offering. This flexibility and understanding, combined with the delivery of excellent products and service is validated by the firm's commitment to PI for the next three years." About Lovells With over 3,000 people operating from 26 offices in Asia, Europe and the United States, Lovells is one of the world's leading international law firms. We advise many of the world's largest corporations, financial institutions and governmental organisations. We regularly act on complex, multi jurisdictional transactions as well as some of the most high profile commercial disputes. Lovells (the "firm") is an international legal practice comprising Lovells LLP and its affiliated businesses. Lovells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC323639. Registered office and principal place of business: Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FG. The word "partner" is used to refer to a member of Lovells LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications, and to a partner, member, employee or consultant in any of its affiliated businesses who has equivalent standing. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Navigator, PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Navigator, PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. PI launches workflow tool for Corporate Finance professionals
PI Navigator is Launched to Empower Corporate Finance Professionals to Reinvent Workflow Processes
London, 22nd July 2008 - Perfect Information (PI), a global provider of financial information, today announced the launch of PI Navigator, a workflow tool for corporate finance teams. PI Navigator has been developed to revolutionise the workflow of corporate finance professionals when using financial documents. PI Navigator uniquely surfaces the value of the data buried within financial documents, providing the ability to significantly reduce the time taken modelling company financials. PI has spent months researching, developing and testing PI Navigator with a variety of teams within the corporate finance departments at some of the leading global investment banks. Having worked closely with these teams, PI's understanding of specific job roles, current workflow processes and users' desires, has resulted in the company bringing to market a product that directly addresses the corporate finance sector's needs. Each function incorporated in PI Navigator has been built to address and resolve a workflow problem for the end user. Whether in the M&A, structured finance or securities research team, PI Navigator enables users to dramatically cut down on the time taken to extract financial information. During the beta test, PI Navigator users experienced savings of up to 40% of the time traditionally taken to model companies. "It has always been at the heart of PI's product development to make the business lives of our customers easier," said Greg Simidian, CEO, Perfect Information. "PI Navigator was born out of a deep understanding of our clients' pressures and processes. It was created to make everyday tasks faster and easier to perform and the unique functionality we are bringing to the market does just this." PI Navigator - Key Features
About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Navigator, PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. PI launches International Private Company Data Service
PI Research Provides Market’s Most Comprehensive and Competitively Fixed-Priced Service
London, 8th July 2008 – Perfect Information (PI), a global provider of financial information, today announced that its research division, PI Research, has launched a fixed-price International Private Company Data service. Having built an expansive network of contacts over many years, PI Research is bringing to market private company documents from a continually growing list of countries. The new service offers the most comprehensive global coverage at the market’s most competitive fixed-price. Most filings from European countries can be turned around within one hour. In addition, the team can also obtain filings for a number of countries where documentation is notoriously difficult to source at an additional cost. As part of the International Private Company Data service, the team does not charge for research time therefore if the document is unobtainable, the client will not be charged. "The demand for International Private Company Data continues to rise and our clients are under increasing time constraints – now more so than ever," said Greg Simidian, CEO, Perfect Information. "We have spent years building up our network of contacts in this space and to us, this service is a natural step to take. We can offer our clients a straightforward, fast, transparent and cost-efficient way to outsource this research, which we believe provides real value both productively and economically." Among the documents available from the new service are: Financials/Accounts; Annual Returns; Incorporation Documents; Memorandums/Articles of Association; and Company Extracts/Certifications of Good Standing. Countries covered in the fixed-price service, include:
*State by State availability on request Some of the countries covered in the price on request service, include: Australia; Bahamas; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Guernsey; Italy; Marshall Islands; and Singapore. About PI Research PI Research is an on-demand research team that is known for its fast access to difficult documents. Over the years, the team has developed a comprehensive network of contacts and resources to ensure that research is carried out quickly and on a cost-efficient basis. Why PI Research?
About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Navigator; PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200.  Close
The Professional Learning Conference 2008
PI Conference 2008 Closure Report
June 2008 The fifth annual Perfect Information Conference was held from 13th-15th May, 2008 at Walton Hall and Hotel in Warwickshire. The conference went very smoothly. Being both educationally and socially successful, it provided delegates with a varied programme and valuable time to spend with industry peers. The networking opportunities and programme content along with the professional organisation were three aspects which the delegates highlighted as being excellent this year, although there were some less than positive comments made about a couple of the breakout sessions being sales angled and some of the venue facilities failing to impress. We were also very lucky to have a host of sponsors on board this year: mergermarket (PIC 08 Premier Sponsor); D&B; LexisNexis; Experian; ICC; RM Group; Intelligent Resources; Smartlogic; FactSet; and 7Side and we would like to thank them all for their valuable support. We had a record number of delegates in attendance in Warwickshire including 11 brand new companies coming to the conference. The split of industries at the conference was as follows: Law Firms 40% Financial 36% Vendors/Recruitment 19% Other (which includes industry bodies & press) 5% On the whole, the feedback was very positive, with the vast majority of feedback forms recommending that their company attend the conference in 2009. We have already had a number of excellent and exciting suggestions for venues, topics to include next year and ways to better the conference format that we are eager to execute next year. Feedback Highlights: (5 = excellent, 4 = very good, 3= good, 2= fair and 1= poor)
Both the pre-conference and gala dinner evenings received a very warm welcome from the delegates, as they were seen as excellent opportunities to network and socialise with friends, vendors and new industry peers. The pre-conference evening, sponsored by LexisNexis, welcomed delegates to the conference and allowed them to catch up with one another in relaxed and comfortable surroundings. This year's Gala Dinner, hosted by D&B, became quite a lively affair when the Swinging Little Big Band got delegates up dancing. Delegate quotes from the PIC 2008: "Thank you and everybody involved for such a superb event! What can I say - you have pulled it off yet again. And made it look so effortless and never stopped smiling! For me, the conference is now THE industry event!" Isabella Follwell - Threadneedle Asset Management "Thank you for organising the conference superbly - I think your efforts were widely appreciated by the delegates. Well organised, very good range of topics, good duration of time allocated and friendly PI staff." David Mantle - Barlow Lyde and Gilbert "I thought the conference was really good - the content and the social/networking side as well. And all the PI team were very friendly and welcoming - which is really important when you come to something on your own. Good value for money" Frances Holmes - ING Bank "Best welcome I have ever had at a conference!" Sue Hill - Sue Hill Recruitment Close
PERFECT INFORMATION EXPANDS EMERGING MARKETS COVERAGE
Middle-East Expert Hired to Meet Rising Emerging Markets Research Demands
London, 4th March 2008 – Perfect Information (PI), a provider of global financial information, today announced that it has increased its coverage of the emerging markets, in particular, the Middle-East. This growth is a direct response to the increased demand for financial information from the emerging markets. The increase applies to the number of public companies covered within PI Filings. All large market-cap companies’ filings from IPOs to quarterly interims are available to download. Included in the comprehensive emerging markets collection are filings from: Bahrain; Egypt; Jordan; Israel; Kuwait; Lebanon; Morocco; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; and UAE. Other regions included in the recent increase in coverage, include: South America; Africa; Cayman Islands; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands; and Canada. Nahrain Aoudishow has been hired as Emerging Markets Document Manager to oversee the emerging markets sector. Prior to her role at PI, Nahrain worked at QAS in IT software/address management solutions. Before QAS, her focus was in recruitment and resourcing. In addition, Nahrain spent several years in the retail banking sector. She is also fluent is both Assyrian and Arabic. "Foreign Direct Investment in the emerging markets sector has significantly grown," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, PI. "We have witnessed a direct correlation between investment growth and an increase in emerging markets documents usage, in particular, the Middle-East. Our emerging markets documents usage has in fact grown 68% year-on-year, we are therefore responding to the changing market conditions by increasing our coverage to meet this rising demand." In further developments to PI Filings, PI can also announce that is has a seven month archive of global IPO documents now available in Word. This represents a considerable saving in time spent navigating through huge pdf filings, as it enables analysts and researchers to easily download and cut and paste from such documents. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information (PI), a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Serving the top 100 investment banks, top 75 law firms, brokerage firms, asset management houses, consultancies and hedge funds, PI addresses the business information needs of over 60,000 users within the global financial community. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or call PI on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION ANNOUNCES 2008 PI CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Information Professionals’ Toolkit
London, 6th February 2008 – Perfect Information’s events division, PI Conferences, has announced the programme for this year’s conference. The PIC 2008 will take place from 13th – 15th May 2008 at Walton Hall and Hotel in Warwickshire (http://www.paramount-hotels.co.uk/hotels/central-england/walton-hall/). The PIC has been designed to increase professional development and enhance delegates’ industry understanding within a practical and interactive environment, surrounded by fellow market experts. The content of the 2008 conference has been carefully developed to reflect this year’s theme, The Information Professionals’ Toolkit. Each of the presentations, panel discussions and break-out sessions has been designed to provide delegates with practical advice and information, reflecting previous attendees’ feed-back and requests. Topics are focused around the needs of senior information professionals, department heads and key decision makers across investment banks, law firms, brokerage firms and consultancies. PI Conferences is also delighted to announce mergermarket as the conference’s Premier Sponsor. Delegates will have the chance to enjoy breathtaking views of the Warwickshire countryside by booking a free flight in the mergermarket hot air balloon. "This year's PIC agenda truly reflects what is currently happening within the industry," said Hamilton Matthews, Director, mergermarket. "Our involvement with the conference is vital, as it provides us with the opportunity to get an exceptional understanding of the issues faced by our customers. We are delighted to be playing such a prominent role in the conference and hope that this year's delegates enjoy the stunning Warwickshire countryside from the dizzy heights of our hot air balloon!" Presentations to feature this year include:
To find out more information about attending, sponsoring or becoming involved in this event, please contact Carley Donegan on + 44 (0) 207 892 4282 or email at carleyd@perfectinfo.com. For any updates, please visit our website www.perfectinfo.com. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information (PI), a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Serving the top 100 investment banks, top 75 law firms, brokerage firms, asset management houses, consultancies and hedge funds, PI addresses the business information needs of over 60,000 users within the global financial community. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION SELECTED BY SIMMONS & SIMMONS PI CHOSEN AS LEADING SUPPLIER OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION
London, 28th January 2008 - Perfect Information (PI), a global provider of financial information, today announced that it has signed a three year global deal with international law firm Simmons & Simmons to provide it with: PI Filings, PI’s database comprising nearly nine million company filings; and PI Debt, PI’s fixed income securities database. The three year deal signifies a growth in financial information requirements at Simmons & Simmons and a desire to ensure the firm has reliable and market-leading data provision and customer service. Perfect Information has responded to this growth by tailoring its information provision to offer Simmons & Simmons a flexible, tailor-made, price-performance package.
Simmons & Simmons is now able to spend less time on research and more time on meeting the needs of clients. Reliable and critical data is quickly available to the users from their desktops, enabling time savings to be passed onto their own clients. "Clients increasingly require timely legal advice, so being able to access vital information quickly makes a real difference to the service we can provide to them", said Lorna Goulding, Information Resources Manager, Simmons & Simmons. "Having worked with PI for many years and having been involved with the company’s product development we are confident that PI will continue to deliver us a high quality product and service." PI Filings PI Filings is a global financial database containing nearly nine million indexed and tagged corporate financial documents including: annual reports; bond prospectuses; structured finance deals; pricing supplements; sovereign and corporate issues; global IPO and M&A documents; private placements; news announcements; shareholder filings; FSA returns; regulatory accounts; sustainability reports; SEC filings and UK private company data. PI Debt Designed exclusively for the Debt Capital Markets professional, PI Debt provides access to an online database of over 250,000 fixed income securities archived since 1986. Perfect Information is the definitive supplier of a comprehensive and timely source of original debt documentation including bond prospectuses, supplements and related documents. The document collection includes, Convertible Bonds; CDO Bonds; Euro-Commercial Paper; Asset Backed; High Yield Bonds; Floating Rate Bonds; MTNs; Guaranteed Bonds; Mortgage Bonds; Debentures; Pricing Supplements; and Secured Loan Stock. "Each company has its own embedded workflow processes and it is vital for any supplier to understand how an organisation uses its products," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "Historically, we have worked closely with Simmons & Simmons on the development of PI Debt to reflect the firm's specific information requirements – our emphasis is, and has always been, to deliver products of true value. This three year deal reinforces the fact that our products fit seamlessly with the firm's existing data processes and in addition, helps it to better advise and serve its own client base." About Simmons & Simmons Simmons & Simmons is a world class law firm with an international network of offices in Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Lisbon, London, Madeira, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Oporto, Padua, Paris, Qatar, Rome, Rotterdam, Shanghai and Tokyo with over 2,000 staff worldwide. For further information on Simmons & Simmons please visit our website at www.simmons-simmons.com. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
BVDEP LINKS UP WITH PI
BvDEP Users Benefit from Access to Comprehensive Range of Filings & Reports
London, 3rd December 2007 – Perfect Information (PI), a provider of global financial information, today announces that it has partnered with Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP), one of the world’s leading electronic publishers of business and company information, to create access to PI's collection of original company reports and filings from BvDEP products. PI provides comprehensive coverage for 45,000 quoted companies globally, adding around 6,000 documents daily with a total library in excess of 8.7 million filings. The PI documents will be accessible from BvDEP’s OSIRIS and ZEPHYR. ZEPHYR is a global database of M&A deals and rumours with links to company financials. It will include access to M&A related documents from PI, including transaction and offer documents plus prospectuses. "The partnership is ideal for both companies as our product suites complement each other," said Lisa Wright, BvDEP’s commercial director for ZEPHYR, "We’re continually striving to add value for our customers. The accessibility of PI’s collection of filings and documents means users will be able to identify and research deals on ZEPHYR with the added benefit of accessing regulatory deal documentation such as offer documents and prospectuses for planned IPOs." The OSIRIS database contains very detailed information on listed and delisted companies around the world. Users will be able to access the entire library of PI documents from the relevant company reports in OSIRIS. The documents cover a wide range of filings and reports including annual and interim reports, equity, debt and M&A documents, SEC filings, regulatory and non-regulatory news. "PI is excited about this partnership and the opportunities it provides," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "BvDEP has an excellent market reputation and an extensive reach across investment banking desktops making this affiliation a natural fit." The PI links will be demonstrated at the Online exhibition on BvDEP’s stand, number 624. About BvDEP Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP) is one of the world’s leading publishers of electronic business and company information. The company has 28 offices worldwide. BvDEP is best known for its range of international company information products that combines multiple high-quality data sources with flexible software to allow users to manipulate data for research, marketing intelligence and analysis. Products include FAME, ORBIS, AMADEUS, BANKSCOPE, ISIS and OSIRIS. BvDEP also publishes the global M&A database, ZEPHYR and the MINT range of products which is designed specifically for end users. www.bvdep.com About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is a provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Filings, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200, or contact BvDEP via info@bvdep.com or on +44 (0) 20 7549 5000. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION PRIORITISES CUSTOMER CARE
Perfect Information Appoints New Customer Relationship Manager
London – 3rd April 2007 – Perfect Information, a global provider of financial information, today announced the appointment of Roberta De Gregorio as CRM Marketing Manager, as part of its commitment to lead the market in customer service. The customers’ needs have always been at the forefront of Perfect Information’s product development and it is of paramount importance that the customers’ requirements are truly understood. Roberta’s role will involve the highly detailed capture of clients’ requirements and the further development of customers’ workflow processes in order for Perfect Information to continue developing products that provide real value. Included in her remit, Roberta will also head up marketing, providing continual benefits to both existing and prospective customers. "Customer centricity is our priority," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "To underpin our dedication to delivering products that add real value, we have taken on Roberta to fully understand clients’ workflow, enabling us to continue building products that our clients truly want. Roberta has a rare mix of experience in both CRM and marketing and we are looking forward to the impact she will have with both clients and internally." Prior to her appointment at Perfect Information, Roberta was co-founder and director of Bamboo PR, a specialist financial and IT PR and marketing agency. At Bamboo, Roberta was responsible for customer relationship management, ensuring Bamboo was embedded with its customer-base. Roberta was also responsible for directing and executing marketing and PR campaigns for the client base. Before setting up Bamboo PR, Roberta was a consultant at Spark Marketing Communications, a full service IT marketing and PR agency. While at Spark, Roberta was responsible managing accounts and increasing revenue for the agency through relationship management. About Perfect Information Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Filings, PI Analysis, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION RE-LAUNCHES FILINGS DATABASE TO FIT SEAMLESSLY WITH EXISTING WORKFLOW PROCESSES
PI Filings Receives Feature and Interface Makeover
London, 13th March 2007 – Perfect Information, a global provider of financial information, today announced the re-launch of PI Filings, its database comprising over seven million company filings. PI Filings has been re-designed to feature a new front-end containing enhancements that will increase its value to clients, whilst carefully retaining the intuitiveness of the existing product. When incorporating additional and advanced functionality to the product, Perfect Information spent considerable time consulting with its customers to pin-point exactly what features would best fit with their individual workflow processes. Included in the new version of PI Filings is the ability for users to email documents researched on PI Filings as a link. This feature, which is unique to PI Filings within the market, has significant advantages to both the end user and their organisation as a whole. Instead of spending time downloading the required document, saving it to the desktop and then emailing it as an attachment, the document can be emailed as a link in one, fast, easy step. Moreover, this process negates the limitations of bandwidth, minimising the drain on the company’s infrastructure and enabling the document to be sent anywhere, regardless of bandwidth capabilities. "Product development and the incorporation of new features are all about listening to your customers," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "The changes made to PI Filings may not appear dramatic, but they are significant to the user. We feel confident that the added functionality will not just sit comfortably with their existing workflow processes, but actually add to them." Other recent developments to Perfect Filings include re-indexed SEC filings and expanded coverage of the following document types: Structured Finance (CDOs); Private Placements (144a); FSA returns; Regulatory Accounts; and Sustainability Reports (CSR). Perfect Filings – Additional Features
Established in 1991 and headquartered in London, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Filings, PI Analysis, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
JPMORGAN CAZENOVE SIGNS THREE YEAR DEAL WITH PERFECT INFORMATION
London - 19th February 2007 – Perfect Information, the global provider of financial information, today announced that it has signed a three year deal with JPMorgan Cazenove to supply the investment bank with PI Filings, Perfect Information’s database comprising over seven million company filings.
Perfect Information has been supplying JPMorgan Cazenove with critical financial information for over twelve years and the bank has chosen to renew its subscription to PI Filings due to the product’s inherent flexibility and the unrivalled document coverage it provides. The database has been deployed across all desktops in JPMorgan Cazenove’s European Corporate Finance departments. PI Filings PI Filings is a global financial database containing over seven million indexed and tagged corporate financial documents including: annual reports; bond prospectuses; structured finance deals; pricing supplements; sovereign and corporate issues; global IPO and M&A documents; private placements; news announcements; shareholder filings; FSA returns; regulatory accounts; sustainability reports; SEC filings and UK private company data. "Signing this three year deal with JPMorgan Cazenove demonstrates that we are providing not only desirable products, but also a unique level of customer service," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "In today’s market, having a real understanding of what your customers need is integral to the overall product and service you supply. Moreover, the ability to adapt as customers’ businesses change is essential to ensuring true customer satisfaction." About Perfect Information Established in 1991, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI: Filings, PI: Analysis, PI: Research, PI: Debt and PI: Conferences. Headquartered in London, Perfect Information also has offices in New York and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION ANNOUNCES 2007 PI CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Staying Relevant in a Constantly Evolving Environment – What’s Next for the Information Professional?
London, 23rd January 2007 – PI Conferences, the conference division of Perfect Information, has announced the programme for this year's PIC (formerly known as Information Professional Learning Conference – IPLC). The conference is taking place on Tues 1st (optional), Wed 2nd and Thurs 3rd May 2007 at The Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, Bath. (http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk). The PIC has been designed to increase professional development and enhance delegates’ industry understanding within a practical and interactive environment, surrounded by fellow market experts. The overall theme of the 2007 conference is Staying Relevant in a Constantly Evolving Environment – What’s Next for the Information Professional? Each of the presentations and breakout sessions aims to identify changes and tackle current challenges, presenting ideas to a range of professionals from investment bankers and fund managers; to legal consultancy and accountancy institutions. "The ongoing growth and success of our conference is due to our commitment in providing relevant, practical and current presentations and seminars on the issues that really face our customers," said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "We found that delegates attending previous PI Conferences gained extremely productive and practical business value. We continue to focus on providing solid, demonstrative business solutions to current management and information issues." Presentations to feature this year include:
About Perfect Information Established in 1991, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI Filings, PI Analysis, PI Research, PI Debt and PI Conferences. Headquartered in London, Perfect Information also has offices in New York and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION JOINS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MOVEMENT
Perfect Information Provides its Customers with Sustainability Reports
London, 5th December 2006 – Perfect Information, the global provider of financial information, today announced that it is making available sustainability (Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR) reports on its PI: Filings database. Most of the world’s largest corporations have voluntarily produced environmental and sustainability reports to assure stakeholders, employees, investors and customers of their environmental and ethical business practices. These documents are collated by Perfect Information under its Annual Report documents database and then made available through PI: Filings, PI’s global database comprising over seven million company filings. "Investors are beginning to take corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment much more seriously now", said Brian Harrison Spence, Founder, economie. "It is imperative that the information released by companies about their environmental and ethical codes of practice is easily accessible. The fact that companies, such as Perfect Information are making this information easily available, further pushes corporate social responsibility into the mainstream, helping to shape the advancement of an ethically aware global economy." PI: Filings currently holds nearly 700 Sustainability Reports, including all 300 constituents of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. "CSR is becoming a significant part of the financial world and it is shaping the decisions people make. Moreover, it is vital that financial institutions are armed with the information they need in order to act quickly on behalf of their customers. Currently, the market share for ethical investment in the UK is only around 2-3%. However, this is set to rise and mirror the US, where the market share is three times greater", said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "More and more companies are beginning to realise the importance of producing voluntary sustainability reports and our repository is growing accordingly. We are constantly striving to help our customers save time and provide them with well-indexed, reliable data from which they can make fast, well-informed choices." Perfect Filings Perfect Filings is a global financial database containing over seven million indexed and tagged corporate financial documents including: annual reports; bond prospectuses; structured finance deals; pricing supplements; sovereign and corporate issues; global IPO and M&A documents; private placements; news announcements; shareholder filings; FSA returns; regulatory accounts; sustainability reports; SEC filings and UK private company data. About economie Founded in 2005, economie is an international organisation devoted to creating international awareness and establishing social responsible investment and corporate social responsibility as the norm. Headquartered in London, economie is made up of international partners from 20 countries, including Australia, Argentina and Norway, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. At the heart of the organisation’s ethos is the belief that much more can be achieved by working together than by standing apart. For more information, please visit www.economie.co.uk About Perfect Information Established in 1991, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include PI: Filings, PI: Analysis, PI: Research, PI: Debt and PI: Conferences. Headquartered in London, Perfect Information also has offices in New York and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION SUPPLIES GLOBAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO ALTIUM
London, 27th September 2006 – Perfect Information, the global provider of financial information, today announced that Altium, has renewed its subscription to Perfect Information’s repository of financial information. This renewal includes a significant increase in Altium’s usage of Perfect Information’s data. The renewal underlines the success of a two-year relationship with Altium. Perfect Information is providing the pan-European investment banking group with its display, charting and analytical tool, Perfect Analysis. Perfect Analysis is a global securities tool that combines with leading sources of financial information to cover over 100,000 global securities. Perfect Analysis provides news, fundamental company data, pricing and economic data, broker forecasts and global indices.
Altium first collaborated with Perfect Information in 2004 and has since expanded its equity research, sales, trading and corporate finance operations to serve the group’s growing client base. Perfect Analysis has continued to work closely with Altium to ensure the product meets the group’s evolving requirements and the needs of each individual user. "We looked for a product that not only met each of our requirements, but also one that we could tailor to match the working patterns of every user", said Greg Feehely, Head of Research, Altium Securities. "In particular, it was important that we chose a product that incorporated functionality to help users save time. With Perfect Analysis, we have found charting tools, intuitive reporting and viewing formats and more, which help us fulfil this requirement. The level of support we continue to receive is a major factor in our decision to stay with Perfect Analysis and we are confident that the features it provides will continue to enhance the analysis process." The functionality of Perfect Analysis has helped Altium users significantly reduce time spent on analytics, such as the ability to view and analyse data from Excel and PowerPoint at the click of a button. In addition, users are now able to easily export data into Excel and PowerPoint. Altium can now chart and display data according to a variety of criteria, including time span and format. Altium was also keen to take advantage of the customised tear-sheet facility, thereby allowing in-house desktop publishing. "We are entering our third year of working with Altium and are delighted to see how our continued close relationship and understanding of Altium’s processes have led us to continually increase the value that we have provided." said Greg Simidian, Managing Director, Perfect Information. "We understand that our products can have a significant impact on productivity and enable users to make faster and more reliable decisions. With this in mind, it is of paramount importance that we are constantly striving to improve and update our products with the time and labour-saving features our clients need." Perfect Analysis Perfect Analysis is a global securities research, analysis and reporting application, delivering unrivalled charting, graphical and peer group functionality on over 100,000 global securities. Content includes: global equities database; 12 year archive on thousands of indices; historical fundamental data from Standard and Poor’s; consensus and detailed broker forecast estimates indices; international newswire and regulatory news announcements; Perfect Views (company briefing documents on over 30,000 companies); and exchange rates, macro economics and broker Research (Reuters Research). About Altium Altium is a fully integrated investment banking and securities group providing stockbroking and advisory services across a range of sectors. It has a European office network providing cross border capabilities and is wholly owned by its 140 employees. This ownership structure, almost unique in an investment bank of Altium’s size and market presence, provides a platform from which the firm is able to distinguish itself and its offering to clients. The group focuses on companies with a value of €20-€800 million and offers the full range of investment banking services to its customers – capital raising on AIM and on the LSE Main Market, private equity and debt fundraisings, mergers and acquisitions, and general advisory services. Altium’s advisory clients include quoted companies, private-equity backed enterprises and entrepreneurs. Altium specialises in certain sectors including IT hardware and electronics, IT software, industrials, leisure, retail, media, communications, speciality financials, support services and building and construction. Since January 2005, Altium carried out 84 transactions with an aggregate value of €4.9 billion. Altium maintains offices in Athens, Edinburgh, London, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Paris and Zurich. Affiliate offices are situated in Helsinki, New York, Oslo, Stockholm and Tel Aviv. Through Altium Securities the group also provides corporate broking, equity trading, sales, market making and high quality institutional research. Clients include UK fund management houses, specialist funds, hedge fund and international funds. For more information, please visit www.altium.co.uk. About Perfect Information Established in 1991, Perfect Information, a subsidiary of the leading B2B media group Centaur Media plc, is the online provider of global financial information. Perfect Information serves the business information needs of over 60,000 contracted users within the global financial community. Products include Perfect Filings, Perfect Analysis, Perfect Research Services, Perfect Debt and PI Conferences. Headquartered in London, Perfect Information also has offices in New York and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.perfectinfo.com or contact them on +44 (0) 207 892 4200. Close
PERFECT INFORMATION CONTINUES TO EXPAND ASSIGNING A NEW POSITION OF CAPITAL MARKETS MANAGER
Perfect Information, a global provider of financial information, today announced the appointment of Roland Peters in a newly created role as Capital Markets Manager. Roland will be responsible for the expansion and development of Perfect Filings - Perfect Information’s global database comprising over five million company filings - and Perfect Debt - an online database of prospectuses and pricing supplements covering over 210,000 fixed income securities.
Before joining Perfect Information, Roland was Manager of Editorial and Data Acquisition at CMA (Credit Market Analysis), where he was responsible for content and product design for credit default swap and bond quote management software. Prior to CMA (Credit Market Analysis), he held the role of Business Manager for Fixed Income and Derivatives at Thomson Financial , where he developed and implemented worldwide fixed income, derivatives, FX, commodities and economics data content strategies in conjunction with the product teams. In addition, whilst at Thomson, Roland held the following positions: Regional Manager for South Africa; and Data Content Manager for bonds. Before joining Thomson, he spent a year as Junior Fund Manager and Equity Fund Manager for DWS (Deutsche Bank). In addition to Roland, Perfect Information has also appointed Craig Harrison and Mark McNerney as Business Development Managers. Craig joined Perfect Information from McBain International where, as Director/Co-Owner, he was responsible for new business development and account management. Prior to this, Craig was a Senior Consultant in client acquisition for The Drax Group/FFS Group. Mark McNerney joined Perfect Information from Market News International, where he held the position of Account Manager. His role within Perfect Information will not only focus on growing existing accounts, but also on increasing the buy-side and non-investment bank business. "This is a very exciting time for us, as we are extending our product and service offerings to customers as well as undergoing a complete rebrand," said Greg Simidian, MD, Perfect Information. "Product and service development is paramount and our ethos is reflected by the industry experts we have attracted to both our product and sales teams." Close
ALLEN & OVERY BENEFITS FROM PERFECT GLOBAL DEAL
Perfect Information Provides Global Filings to Allen & Overy
London, 19th September 2006 – Perfect Information, a global provider of financial information, announced that it supplying Allen & Overy global access to Perfect Filings, the company’s database comprising over seven million company filings. Allen & Overy’s global offices are using Perfect Filings to obtain fast and reliable access to shareholder circulars; bonds and RIS announcements. These are used as document precedents, to obtain the details of a transaction, as a news facility (RIS) and to find out more about company strategy. Predominantly used by the London, Hong Kong and Western European offices, Allen & Overy save significant amounts of both time and space because the need to maintain a hard copy collection is negated. Moreover, the company benefits from Perfect Filings’ document collection itself. In particular, Allen and Overy saves time due to the quality of indexing within Perfect Filings, as the indexing and full text search allows users to save time wading through documents looking to see if they are relevant. "We have worked with Perfect Information for over ten years," said Sarah Fahy, Head of Global Services, Allen & Overy. "When we were looking for a global solution, there were a number of companies that offered a comparative service, however, Perfect Information’s products always were and remain the most comprehensive and user-friendly. The global service has also been able to save us a significant amount of time – and space – with regards to maintaining |
