NYSE Euronext To Acquire Corpedia Corporation
24 Maggio 2012 - 3:02PM
Business Wire
NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced today that it has entered into a
definitive agreement to acquire Corpedia Corporation (Corpedia), a
leading global provider of ethics and compliance e-learning and
consultative services. With its corporate governance, risk and
compliance (GRC) assets, Corpedia will further expand the New York
Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) extensive range of global services
available to its issuer community. The transaction is expected to
close in June 2012. Terms of the acquisition were not
disclosed.
A leading provider in the GRC advisory and eLearning market,
Corpedia serves more than 500 customers across all industry sectors
including approximately 25% of Fortune 500 companies. Corpedia’s
data-centric value-added services extend to mobile eLearning and
executive and board training, and the company owns extensive
benchmarking data on more than 2,000 corporate compliance programs
and anti-corruption program data for 1,700 companies. Corpedia
advisory services include compliance diagnostics, risk assessment,
curriculum mapping and peer benchmarking. Its eLearning courseware
features foundational courses, focus courses, shorts and clips with
materials delivered on a proprietary customizable learning
management system platform embedded into clients’ workflow.
“Connecting customers to innovative products and superior
services is a prime objective of NYSE Euronext,” said Jean-Marc
Levy, SVP, Head of Global Issuer Services. “This acquisition will
provide our issuer community with high value governance, risk and
compliance education, communication and advice. The addition of
Corpedia further enhances our services platform, and is consistent
with our overall corporate strategy to unlock the potential of our
global capital markets community by linking capital, issuers and
innovative ideas.”
NYSE Euronext has built a superior issuer services platform of
over thirty best-in-class products for global issuers by developing
proprietary tools, establishing strategic partnerships with
best-in-class service providers and acquiring market-leading
companies. For more information on NYSE’s issuer services, please
visit:
http://usequities.nyx.com/listings/listed-company-resources/market-intelligence.
“Leading companies, their shareholders, employees and
stakeholders are investing heavily in risk management, compliance
and governance solutions to differentiate their performance,” said
Alex Brigham, Founder and CEO of Corpedia. “NYSE Euronext and
Corpedia have a shared ethos of deep commitment to serving clients.
I am thrilled to have Corpedia’s employees and customers join such
a deeply respected organization as NYSE Euronext,” added
Brigham.
About Corpedia
Corpedia is a leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
education, communication, and advice. Corpedia helps drive a
culture of ethics throughout an organization, but also provides
a defensible plan in the event of malfeasance.
Corpedia is the expert in implementing measurable and effective
ethics and compliance training and communication programs, as well
as program management tools and materials that help reduce risk
exposure and protect organizations from potential ethics and
compliance failures. Industry insight and experience allow our
experts to design programs specific to each organization. For more
information, go to: www.corpedia.com.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial
markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The
company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities,
futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With
approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured
Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York Stock
Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca -
represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most
liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates
NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and
the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of
trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology,
connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE
Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index. For more
information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
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to: NYSE Euronext’s ability to implement its strategic initiatives,
economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations,
government and industry regulation, interest rate risk and U.S. and
global competition, and other factors detailed in NYSE Euronext’s
reference document for 2007 (“document de référence”) filed with
the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Registered on May 15,
2008 under No. R. 08-054), 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and
other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
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that are subject to change. Accordingly, actual results may be
materially higher or lower than those projected. The inclusion of
such projections herein should not be regarded as a representation
by NYSE Euronext that the projections will prove to be correct.
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disclaims any duty to update the information herein.
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