Exchange Data and CounterpartyLink Join Forces with New Service

Exchange Data International (EDI) and CounterpartyLink (CPL) have joined forces to provide an integrated data service providing EDI’s corporate actions and reference data linked to and supplemented by legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The new service is designed to help financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations, and puts the two companies in competition with Crosswalk, a joint service developed by Telekurs, Standard & Poor’s and Dun & Bradstreet, and with Interactive Data Corp. and Avox, which have just announced their joint Business Entity Data Service as a module of FT Interactive Data’s FTS service.