Thomson ONE for Investment Banking is a flexible desktop solution that delivers critical information and tools to the desktops of the world's leading Investment Bankers and Information Professionals.

Version 2.5 of Thomson ONE for Investment Banking, available from June 20th 2005, offers the following enhancements;

• Imputed Fee Data for deals content
• LIBOR and Treasury Rates
• Japanese Fundamental content.
• Enhancements to our Excel add-in

The fee content coupled with Thomson Financial's leading transaction content and analytical tools offer investment banking management the ability to thoroughly understand investment banking deal flow and the fees they generate.

Freeman imputed fees are populated for all M&A, Equity, Debt and Syndicated Loans transactions since 1998.

Aggregate level data will be provided in the form of fee-based league tables and volume tables to all Thomson ONE for Investment Banking users. Manager/advisor fee data will be offered as an add on Module through Thomson ONE for Investment Banking

Now you can -

• Access Thomson Financial's industry leading league tables based on Freeman imputed fees
  
  
• Access volume tables across all asset classes by industry, region and selected time periods.
  
  
• View company specific fees paid to investment banks across M&A, Equity, Debt and Syndicated Loans.
  
  
• Create custom searches and reports
  
  
• Create custom rankings using the imputed fee data items
  
  
• Access comprehensive deal tear sheets that include imputed fees allocated to each manager/advisor on the deal.

About Freeman & Co.:
Freeman & Co. was founded in 1991 and has served as a strategic advisory consultancy firm with extensive experience advising investment banks In 1994 they pioneered the industry leading algorithm-based model for imputing investment banking fees for M&A, Equity, Debt and Syndicated Loans transactions. Their consulting business provides unique access to actual banking fees and revenue streams and this intelligence is incorporated into their model. The model is constantly updated and adjusted to accommodate changes and shifts in the marketplace

Reports include balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, footnote data and business geographic segment data. The content is displayed within the relevant industry template in either English or Japanese.

LIBOR

1. 20 years rolling history of daily closing rate.
2. Libor rates are available for 16 time-periods including overnight, spot/next, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year.
3. Available in 15 currencies.

Treasury

1. 20 years rolling history of on the run daily closing yield.
2. Treasury durations are, 1 month (30 day), 3 months (91 day), 6 months (182 day), 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years, 10 years and 30 years.

Thomson Merger News editorial is produced by a dedicated and experienced team of journalists with additional content from the Acquisitions Monthly and IFR editorial teams.

The news is available to Thomson ONE for Investment Banking users with Standard Deals or the Deals M&A add on. Users can access the service through the jump to.

Generally, the regulation applies to consolidated financial statements for accounting periods starting on or after January 1, 2005. Thus for those companies with 12-month accounting periods covering the calendar year, IFRS will first apply to periods ending on December 31, 2005. As a result, companies will first publish IFRS financial information as at March 31, 2005 (if they report quarterly) or as of June 30, 2005 (if they report semi-annually). In the 2.5 release, First Call/IBES EPS estimates for EU based companies are redefined to comply with the new IFRS regulations. The definition of EPS estimates will be brought in line with the current EBG definition, pre exceptional, pre-goodwill or fully adjusted.

As company estimates switch to the IFRS basis, our estimate data will reflect the IFRS standards. All existing online estimate reports reflecting the IFRS standard will include a footnote, i.e. "Estimates are on an IFRS Basis as of 3/18/2005." In addition, two new data items are now available in the Excel add in to indicate when a company is IFRS compliant. The new data items are "IFRSCompliant" and "IFRSSwitchDate."

• Price greater than
• Price less than
• Price increased by %
• Price decreased by %
• Volume exceeds

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