Deutsche Börse’s Securities Service System (Wertpapier Service System – WSS) provides international market participants with a comprehensive information service. The system supplies master, event and price data on over 400,000 securities listed in Germany and abroad. On behalf of Telekurs Financial and Reuters, Deutsche Börse provides the closing prices of foreign stock exchanges. Deutsche Börse also supplies bond prices calculated by Interactive Data. The information is provided at various intervals on every trading day in a processable, machine-readable form and made available for download via the Internet.

These data serve as an efficient tool for:

	credit monitoring based on a current valuation of securities lent as collateral in the event of fluctuating stock markets
	securities information systems
	preparing evaluated securities account statements
	evaluating proprietary holdings
	determining fund prices
	collateral and risk management

Data sources

Cash settlement and closing prices

For securities listed in Germany, the unit price (cash settlement price) is supplied plus the opening/high/low/closing and the prior-day closing price for variably traded stocks.For investment securities, the redemption price is usually disclosed. For securities listed abroad, either the closing price or, if this is not available, the bid or ask price is supplied.

Continuous quotations

For securities that are traded variably in Germany, tick-by-tick data can be supplied. Along with the tick, these alternative data also include the turnover and the time of origin. When the ongoing listings are transferred, a data record for each available price is supplied.

Calculated bond prices

For bond price calculations, the data include the price (bid, ask and middle) and the date. Interactive Data’s Bond evaluations methodologies are based on in-house modelling techniques combined with professional evaluators. Evaluators integrate relative credit information, perceived market movements and sector news into the proprietry models for bond evaluations.

Contact

Do you already have a line connection to Deutsche Börse or access to the Internet? If so, please feel free to test our offer free of charge. We are happy to provide you with information. Please contact:

Info-Operations Backoffice
Tel.: +49-(0) 69–2 11–1 11 60
E-Mail: wss@deutsche-boerse.com