Local Intelligence
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Internet Securities, Inc. (ISI), an Internet-based
information service focusing on emerging markets
The subscription-based service enables users to
real time access to a comprehensive range of information
derived directly from over 5700 leading sources
located throughout Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Each of the country sections includes the following
content:
· News from primary local sources including
ISI's proprietary IntelliNews and international
ones such as Agence France Presse and BBC Monitoring
Service
· Company and Industry Information features
corporate profiles, financial statements, earnings
estimates and industry and analyst reports, including
coverage of privatization issues and selections
from the Investext database
· Financial Markets provides comprehensive
daily quotes from the equity and debt markets
and foreign exchanges
· Macroeconomic Analysis includes economic
forecasts and macroeconomic statistics
· Legal & Current Affairs featuring
regulatory databases and information on politics
and current events, accounting and taxation, and
opinion polls.
 USERS |
ISI's users include commercial and investment
banks, multinational and top-tier local corporations,
law firms, consulting and advisory firms, investment
funds, multilateral organisations and others,
professionally involved in areas such as Research
& Analysis, Corporate Finance, Business Development,
Risk Management, Credits & Loans, Strategic
Planning, Trade & Project Finance, M&A's,
Capital Markets, Investment & Asset Management,
Financial and Legal Advisory, Business Consulting,
Investor Relations, Auditing, PR & Marketing,
Key Account Management, etc.
ISI Emerging Markets currently has over 10,000
high-ranking users from more than 1300 organisations
including almost all leading international banks
and many of the world's largest multinational
institutional investors.
Market positioning
ISI Emerging Markets Information Service is the
leader in emerging markets coverage for professionals
in the field of finance, macroeconomics and local
country business environment. The growing list of
markets covered currently includes: Argentina, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China,
Croatia, Russia & Moscow, Guatemala, Hong Kong,
Hungary, India, Khazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Mexico,
Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia,
the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
Yugoslavia, Venezuela. |
Structure of the
Company
Since 1999 ISI is a Euromoney Institutional Investor
Company with 80 per cent. shareholding.
19 ISI Emerging Markets representation offices
are scattered all over the world in the capitals
and administrative centres of the following countries:
North America & Latin America
Bogota
Buenos Aires
Mexico City
New York
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Asia
Beijing
Hong Kong
Mumbai
Southeast Asia (including Singapore)
Europe
Bucharest
Budapest
Istanbul
Kiev
London
Moscow
Prague
Sofia
Warsaw
History of the Company
Gary Mueller, the current President and CEO founded
Internet Securities, Inc (ISI) in 1994. He raised
$12.5 million venture capital to finance the expansion
of this rapidly growing company.
The Service started with the information product
for Poland that as for now is one of the most
profitable assets of the company among other 38
products covering 46 emerging markets.
In January 1999 Euromoney has bought out ISI's
original venture capital investors as well as
injecting $11 million of new money into the company
via a new issue of ISI preferred stock.
Growing interest to the emerging markets economies
and rising demand for the service on behalf of
customers and prospects brought ISI on the track
of functional optimization.
In September 2001 Internet Securities, Inc. has
launched new interface and platform for its flagship
Emerging Market Information Service. The functionality
of the service has been retooled with new and
improved graphics, simplified navigation, and
faster, more comprehensive search results. Changes
in interface design reflect the company's commitment
to ease of use and rapid access to information.
It is designed now to deliver results in 3 mouse
clicks as the standard. Subscribers can opt for
subscriptions to single country databases, or
select access to multiple county or regional packages.
Specific country database has sub-sections focusing
on News, Company Data, Industry Data, Financial
Market Data, and Research Reports.
As a further development of the functional capabilities
of the powerful ISI IntelliFind Search machine
in March 2002 a new project was launched to enable
customers to find answers from within ISI vast
information resources - quickly and with pinpoint
accuracy. A milestone agreement was signed with
Nstein Technologies Inc. "Nstein" (CDNX:
EIN), a leading developer of innovative linguistic
intelligence business solutions.
ISI Emerging Markets strategy for the next years
is to maintain position as key and undisputable
suplier of information on Emerging Markets all
over the world.
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