FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ISI EMERGING MARKETS WIDENS IT’S
COVERAGE TO SRI
LANKA
New York, NY, March 01, 2007 – ISI Emerging Markets, a Euromoney Institutional
Investor Company, announced the coverage of Sri Lanka in its flagship Emerging Market
Information Service (EMIS).
ISI Emerging Markets will deliver extensive coverage on Sri Lanka from about 80 sources, including those from local and
regional news, company profiles, listed company financials, annual reports,
company research, industry analyses, industry statistics and macroeconomic
information.
Content in the new Sri Lanka product will be provided by
prominent local and regional information sources including Daily Mirror (one of
the highest selling newspaper in Sri Lanka which has a comprehensive coverage
of local and international news), Nation, Lanka Business Online (which provides
updates on the Sri Lankan economy and Sri Lankan business community), AFX Asia and
Asia Pulse.
In addition to extensive Company and Industry information
from distinguished organizations such as Bartleet
Group, Board of Investment, Lanka Orix, Ceylon Tea Board, BuddeComm, EIG
& SBB, the Sri Lanka product also offers comprehensive Financial Market & Macroeconomic information on this country. The Financial Market information comprises
of daily market update & a weekly market review from Local Brokerage houses
such as Asha Phillip, Asia Securities, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, etc. & regional sources like Eurekahedge
etc. The Macroeconomic information, on
the other hand, covers demographic information, pricing & inflation,
fiscal information, monetary data, balance of payments & potential risks to
financial stability arising from the macro-economic environment from key
sources such as Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Other international content contributors include the
Fitch Ratings, EIG, Euromoney, Euroweek, Steel
Business Briefing, IntesaBci, Moody’s Ratings,
Tenders and Projects Database, BuddeComm, Thomson
Financial, OPEC publications & Finglobe
Research.
“The Sri Lanka market has become a compelling story. Personal
industrial production is up 6% a year for 3 years now, inflation is tapering
off, and foreign investment is at record highs. These are the sort of
indicators that interest our customers, and to which we respond with focused
product development. That said, the information
industry in Sri
Lanka has
not kept pace with the economy, so we're filling a vital need. Our Sri Lanka
product is built around our know how in navigating data developing data
environments, and the beneficiaries are the yield seeking customers with vision
who make up our customer base. An impressive set of beta users are
responding, I am happy to say, enthusiastically, so we look forward to a good
future for Sri |Lanka and our products there” commented James Hammond, ISI’s
Executive Vice President.
"Our objective is to
deliver most comprehensive guide of business intelligence on Sri Lanka, available anywhere. We bring you a combination of full
text news, listed company profiles, detailed financial statements, annual
reports and analyses from authoritative sources like Daily Mirror, Lanka
Business Online, Asha Phillip, Asia Capital, Lanka Orix, CT Smith, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Ceylon Tea
Board, to name a few. Going forward we will continue
to enhance our service, to provide greater breadth and depth to our coverage in
the local market” expressed Ms. Pinky Shah, Regional Product Manager- Asia.
The Sri Lanka product is structured in the same easy to navigate
format as other country products within ISI’s Emerging Markets Information
Service (EMIStm) and is available either as a
stand-alone subscription, or as part of an integrated Asia
package.
About ISI Emerging Markets
ISI Emerging Markets delivers hard-to-get information on
over 80 emerging markets through its flagship Emerging Markets Information
Service (EMIStm). Available through fifteen different
language interfaces, it aggregates and produces unique content including
full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry
analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific
information.
EMIS
tm offers companies powerful search capabilities with in-depth, timely and
comprehensive coverage, which are derived directly from more than 13,000 local
and global publications.
ISI Emerging Markets won the award for “Best Business
Information Product” at the fourth annual International Information Industry
Awards in November 2006. ISI Emerging Markets has been awarded “Best of the
Web” ratings for the past four years by Forbes Magazine, and was named “Forbes
Favorite” in 2004. The Company and its services has continuously earned
outstanding recognition and product reviews, including "perfect
scores" in all categories and a "must have" ranking from
Information World Review. It has also merited a first place ranking by the Wall
Street Journal Europe and is the winner of the 2003 Best Information Service by
Competia.
ISI Emerging Markets (trading as Internet Securities
Inc.) is a subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor. Based in New York, it operates European headquarters in London, and supports product development and sales through a
network of 28 offices around the globe.
Press
contact:
James Hammond, Executive Vice President,
ISI Emerging Markets
Tel. +1 212 610 2954
j h a m m o n d @ s e c u r i
t i e s . c o m
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