Thomson Financial, a provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, today announced the launch of Thomson ePIB, a powerful web-based tool for investment bankers and financial professionals. Thomson ePIB electronically collects documents from the industry’s leading financial databases, and within minutes, assembles a fully customized Public Information Book or PIB, in PDF. The new product’s robust technologies eliminate the hours of researching and formatting formerly required to produce the PIBs that investment banks use for detailed analysis of a target company or prospective client.

From one central application, Thomson ePIB enables the user to simultaneously search through multiple databases covering over 80,000 global companies, and retrieve and tailor a targeted set of company information according to predefined criteria. Thomson ePIB integrates Thomson Financial content, third-party sources, and selected proprietary data, into one virtual database, including financials, news articles, M&A deals, new issues, ownership, earnings estimates, daily pricing, block trading activity and investment research.

Using one search input, Thomson ePIB automatically sorts through and compiles information from all of these sources, while its customizable features streamline and standardize the PIB to users’ unique specifications and formatting needs. Cross-content searches can be conducted by name, ticker symbol, ISIN, SEDOL or CUSIP. Unique search and reporting criteria for each content set can be defined by many variables including date, report type, deal value or keyword.

Thomson Financial content accessible via Thomson ePIB includes up-to-the-minute data from Disclosure, NewsEdge, Worldscope, Securities Data, Investext, MarkIntel, Thomson Ownership Data, I/B/E/S, Datastream and AutEx BlockDATA. Third party data includes Standard & Poor’s among others yet to be announced.

“Thomson ePIB is formatted to replicate what investment banks generally spend hours creating internally,” said Kenneth Read, executive vice president Thomson Financial Investment Banking Group. “Thomson ePIB saves them time, manpower and money, and offers easy access to all relevant content with simple searching generated from a company identifier. In addition, several company standard PIB templates can be created and stored for future use,” he added. “We are very pleased with the feedback we have received from our clients who
served as beta users and are excited about its potential now that it is ready for general release.”

Thomson Financial is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation.