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Metadata from Mergent, Inc.’s Annual Reports Database to be added to Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service^™

Fort Mill SC, January 13^th, 2011– Mergent, Inc. today announced an agreement with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), allowing metadata from Mergent’s Annual Reports Database, to be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service^™ (EDS). The addition of Mergent resources to the EDS Base Index enhances the quality of metadata available and brings added value to EDS customers.

Mergent’s Annual Reports Database includes more than 300,000 annual reports from global publicly traded companies and is continually updated throughout the year. Metadata from Mergent’s collection will also include archived annual reports dating back ten years. Additional collections from Mergent may be added to the Base Index of EDS in the future. 

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

Founded in 1900, Mergent has become a leading provider of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. The company is based in the U.S. but maintains a strong global presence, with offices in New York, Charlotte, San Diego, London, Tokyo and Melbourne.

About Mergent

Mergent, Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial information on global publicly listed companies. Based in the U.S., the company maintains a strong international presence, with offices in New York, Fort Mill, San Diego, London, Tokyo and Melbourne. With roots tracing back to 1900, Mergent operates one of the longest continuously collected databases of: descriptive and fundamental information on domestic and international companies; pricing and terms and conditions data on fixed income and equity securities; and corporate action data. Mergent delivers this data through desktop applications, data feeds and other custom services to a global client base. For more information, visit http://www.mergent.com

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search^™, Business Source^®, CINAHL^®, DynaMed^™, Literary Reference Center^™, MasterFILE^™, NoveList^®, SocINDEX^™ and SPORTDiscus^™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database^™, EconLit, INSPEC^®, MEDLINE^®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index^™, PsycARTICLES^®, PsycINFO^® and RILM^™. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.

EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service^™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

 Mergent has announced the release of a beta version of a new data API (application programming interface), to provide users with the fastest and easiest access to the Mergent fundamental financial data, executive compensation data and annual reports collection. The beta version currently provides access to the following data sets: 1.  Mergent’s Fundamental Financials database that includes around 25 years’ of financial statements from publicly listed US and international companies, about 10 years worth of annual reports and M&A history 2.  Mergentss Executive Compensation Database of active and inactive board members and officers, along with compensation and biographical information–all collected and standardized by Mergent. 3.  Mergent Global Company Annual Reports Collection which houses over 300,000 current as well as historical annual reports The API leverages the vendor’s Mergent RT intra-day delivery platform, which pushes out fresh data via the API when updates are processed–for example, as soon as new financials are released by a company and collected by Mergent. In the coming days Mergent will announce the release of additional data sets such as their economic database, corporate actions and fixed-income content–including terms and conditions for corporate and municipal debt–to the API. Users can already access the data via Mergent’s desktop applications and feeds, however by leveraging these new APIs, users are able to retrieve only the specific data elements they need - on demand and use them for a wide range of purposes such as internal applications or a bank’s client Web portal without requiring the programming or data storage of a traditional data feed. As a result, the API access reduces the amount of supporting hardware and development effort required, making it quicker and easier to connect to the Mergent’s data. 

 Mergent today anounced the launch of our newest product suite called Mergent RT.  With the introduction of this new product suite we have created the most timely source of Mergent data feed products.

XBRL International Announces Chethan Gorur, Director of Interactive Data at Trintech, as Chairman of the XBRL International Standards Board

• Companies:

  • Trintech Group Plc

Press Release Source: Trintech Group Plc On Thursday January 7, 2010, 1:00 am EST

DALLAS, DUBLIN and LONDON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Board of Directors and International Steering Committee of XBRL International are pleased to announce that they have approved the appointment of Chethan Gorur, Director of Interactive Data Services at Trintech, as Chairman Designate of the XBRL International Standards Board (XSB) effective immediately. It is anticipated that he will fully assume the role of Chair at the end of March 2010.

“As the global adoption of XBRL accelerates, the charter of the XBRL Standards Board – which is defining, updating and maintaining XBRL technical specifications - takes increasing importance,” said Mr. Gorur. “I am very excited to be nominated as the Chair of XSB and look forward to leading XSB with a collaborative and market-based approach.”

Chethan will continue to head up the product leadership team at Trintech, including being responsible for strategy, product marketing and development efforts for Trintech’s Unity Xtensible Financial Reporting (XFR) solution, which includes embedded support for the report tagging and output of financial statements with XBRL. Prior to his current role at Trintech, Chethan was a key member of the XBRL leadership team at Microsoft for more than five years, where he was instrumental in crafting and executing on the XBRL product strategy. Chethan was a key contributor to Microsoft Investor Central, and led the Microsoft product team responsible for incubating a new SaaS-based XBRL product line. Chethan has held product leadership positions at i2 technologies, IBM, and One Network.

“XBRL International, Inc. is pleased to have Mr. Gorur as the next Chair for the XBRL Standards Board. We are confident he will continue the important work of the Standards Board with a focus toward market requirements and sound project management practices,” stated Anthony Fragnito, XBRL International, CEO.

Mr. Gorur succeeds John Turner, CEO of CoreFiling, who is retiring as Chair after serving in the role for three terms.

For more information on the XSB please visit http://www.xbrl.org/StandardsBoard/

About XBRL International, Inc. (XII)

XII is an independent, not-for-profit organization with over 500 global members that oversees the development of technical standards and XBRL. These member-organizations work together to build the XBRL language and to promote and support its adoption. The consortium members conduct member education and outreach events through semi-annual international conferences, participate in international jurisdiction local events worldwide encouraging awareness and adoption of XBRL as the Business and Financial Reporting Standard and promote implementation and utilization tools for XBRL through the work of the XII Standards Board and by participating in local and International Working Groups.

About Trintech Group

Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA) is a leading global provider of integrated financial governance, risk management, and compliance software solutions for commercial, financial, and healthcare markets. Trintech’s recognized expertise in reconciliation process management, financial data aggregation, revenue and cost cycle management, financial close, risk management, and compliance enables customers to gain greater visibility and control of their critical financial processes leading to better overall business performance.

For more information on how Trintech can help you increase confidence in business performance and reduce financial risk, please contact us online atwww.trintech.com or at our principal business office in Addison, Texas, or through an international office in Ireland, the United Kingdom, or the Netherlands.

FIRSTRAIN PARTNERS WITH MERGENT TO DELIVER STREAMLINED WEB CONTENT THROUGH MERGENT ONLINESearch-Driven Research Provides a Broader Perspective of Web CoverageSan Mateo, Calif., September 14, 2009 - FirstRain® today announced it has partnered with Mergent, Inc., to deliver unique web content through their market-leading Mergent Online platform. The FirstRain research engine will provide a continually updated data stream of high quality web results that will allow Mergent Online clients to quickly and efficiently discover web information that is essential to their research. This partnership represents an expanded data set of web sources, to include not only mainstream sources, but also differentiated and targeted content, such as industry journals and blogs.FirstRain is the leader in identifying, extracting and analyzing qualitative information from the web on companies, business topics and markets for professional business users. The research engine technology allows users to be confident in the precision, relevancy and cleanliness of the content that is retrieved. FirstRain’s proprietary algorithms identify and extract content from a vast range of web sources from around the world. Categorization then identifies and creates relationships between companies and among business topics creating an ecosystem - a holistic approach to company research and monitoring. This allows FirstRain to provide comparative and meaningful analytics by highlighting trends and relationships from qualitative data.”Our partnership with FirstRain significantly improves the qualitative intelligence we are able to provide by identifying content from a broad range of sources,” said John Pedernales, Mergent’s Executive Managing Director and Director of Equity Research. “Integrating results from FirstRain into our platform for academic, corporate, public and government libraries allows our clients to have a richer, more complete research experience. The business relevant content delivered by FirstRain complements our offering and empowers our clients to quickly and efficiently find information that is most relevant to their research.”"We are delighted to have been selected by Mergent to power the business news capabilities on the Mergent Online platform,” said Penny Herscher, President and CEO of FirstRain. “This partnership takes advantage of FirstRain’s unique ability to deliver quality, new and interesting - and highly categorized - web information that provides value to users doing qualitative research in any information platform.”About FirstRainFirstRain provides a new and unique way for business professionals to leverage search technology as part of their research process. Our research engine intelligently filters the most insightful information and trends from the web about companies, the markets they operate in, and the business trends impacting their market. FirstRain’s technology also pulls together information from across the web revealing interesting and useful analytics that signal opportunities for Sales, Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Investor Relations and Investment Management professionals. Our partners include leading research platforms such as Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor’s), Code:Red, FactSet Research Systems, Mergent and Wall Street On Demand. FirstRain is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with additional offices in New York, NY and Gurgaon, India. For more information, contact FirstRain at www.firstrain.com.About MergentMergent, Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. Based in the U.S, the company maintains a strong global presence, with offices in New York, Fort Mill, San Diego, London, Tokyo and Melbourne.Founded in 1900, Mergent operates the longest continuously collected database of: descriptive and fundamental information on domestic and international companies; pricing and terms and conditions data on fixed income and equity securities; and corporate action data. In addition, Mergent develops and licenses equity and fixed income investment products based on its proprietary investment methodologies. Mergent-licensed products have over $3.5 billion in assets under management and are offered by major investment management firms. Mergent’s index calculation platform is the chosen technology for some of the world’s largest index companies. Its index calculation and pricing distribution protocols are used to administer index rules and distribute real-time pricing data. For more information, visit

August 21, 2009 02:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time  

MGE Energy Increases Dividend for 34th Consecutive Year

Company has paid cash dividends for more than 100 years

MADISON, Wis.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The board of directors of MGE Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGEE) today increased the regular quarterly dividend to $0.3684 per share on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable Sept. 15, 2009, to shareholders of record Sept. 1, 2009. With this increase, the new dividend is equivalent to an annual rate of $1.4736 per share.

“MGE Energy is one of only 58 U.S. companies that have paid annual dividends for more than 100 years,” said Gary J. Wolter, MGE Energy’s chairman, president and CEO.

The company has increased its dividends annually for the past 34 years. MGE Energy is listed as a “Dividend Achiever” by Mergent, Inc., a financial information publisher for more than a century. Just 10% of all dividend-paying companies meet the Mergent test of increasing dividends annually for at least 10 years.

MGE Energy is a public utility holding company. Its principal subsidiary, Madison Gas and Electric (MGE), generates and distributes electricity to 137,000 customers in Dane County, Wis., and purchases and distributes natural gas to 141,000 customers in seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. MGE’s roots in the Madison area date back more than 150 years.

IndustryWeek has partnered with Mergent Inc. to create the 2009 IW U.S. 500 ranking of the largest publicly held manufacturing companies in the United States. Mergent is a leading provider of global financial information and has sales and data collection operations in New York City and Charlotte, N.C., Mergent, which acquired the Financial Information Services division of Moody’s Investors Service in 1998, has been collecting and delivering financial information for more than 100 years. IndustryWeek’s relationship with Mergent/Moody’s dates back to 1996.Led by project manager Ricardo Angel, Mergent’s global databases were used to identify all publicly held manufacturing firms meeting IW’s selection criteria. The actual cutoff for inclusion on this year’s IW U.S. 500 list was just under $1.2 billion in revenues. Mergent collected the financial data elements directly from reports distributed by the
corporations.The IW U.S. 500 includes:

• Manufacturing companies with a majority of their business in a manufacturing industry.
• Companies that generated less than 50% of revenues from manufacturing, but more revenue from manufacturing than the lowest-revenue-producing companies on this year’s list.
• Oil and gas companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues from the refining of oil and gas products.
• Companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues from the manufacture of mined materials.

SIX Telekurs adds Mergent Terms and Conditions and Moody’s Analytics municipal securities pricing

SIX Telekurs announces the availability of municipal securities terms and conditions from Mergent and pricing from Moody’s Analytics and reference/descriptive data from Mergent Inc., thereby adding even greater depth and quality to its coverage of US fixed-income markets.
With the addition of evaluated prices and reference data on over 1.2 million municipal securities, SIX Telekurs now covers the universe of US municipal securities. Daily pricing is provided by Moody’s Analytics, which delivers independent valuations based on the most up-to-date market information, taking into account the attributes of each specific instrument such as state of issuance, rating/outlook, optionality, and sector. Descriptive and reference data for these bonds is provided from the Mergent Terms and Conditions database under an exclusive licensing agreement through Moody’s.

“The combination of Mergent’s rich terms and conditions content with Moody’s sophisticated, modern model-based evaluated pricing is a powerful addition to our US fixed-income offering,” says Barry Raskin, Managing Director of SIX Telekurs USA. “Through this offering, we are able to provide our customers with the depth and breadth of data for munis that we already provide for more than five million securities traded around the world.”

Moody’s evaluations are objective, and as such can be used by any type of institution for a variety of purposes, ranging from portfolio valuation to risk management and compliance. Given the current state of the credit markets, prices from an unbiased, expert provider can facilitate compliance with internal policies as well as with regulations such as FAS 157.

David Little, Managing Director of Moody’s Analytics, says, “SIX Telekurs’ ability to deliver the Moody’s evaluated prices in a single format along with any other security in the customer’s portfolio is a big advantage. Customers can now utilize existing infrastructure to immediately add Moody’s as a source of municipal prices - a critical advantage for those who need truly objective valuations but don’t have the resources to bring on an additional service.”