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100

This vendor tries to sabotage us by feeding us delists when it's just an identifier change

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)


100

Despite its name, this flagship index commonly includes 101 securities, 

Nasdaq 100 (NDX)

100

This Nasdaq team performs reconstitutions and rebalances on a fixed schedule

R&R team

100
A company plans to pay special dividend but our indexes intend to delete it on the same day

Deletion

100

This financial product tracks the performance of a group of assets in a standardized way.

Index

200

This vendor is the gold source for corporate actions but does not feed directly into ExACT.

Bloomberg

200

This is the index my grandpa means when he tells me "the Nasdaq is up"

Nasdaq Composite (COMP)

200

This Nasdaq team provides the GIC with upload files, price remediation, and restatements.

Index Operations (C&D)

200

A company plans to pay a special dividend and a stock split on the same day

Special dividend

200

An investment fund that holds multiple underlying assets which is structured to track a specific goal.

Exchange-traded fund (ETF)

300

This vendor provides United States financial filings, such as 10-Q, 6-k, 20-F, etc.

Edgar

300

This index has the second largest amount of money tracking it out of all Nasdaq indexes.

The Capital Strength Index (NQCAPST)

300

This Nasdaq team is in charge of global securities in ExACT and their corporate actions.

eCAP (XSP) team
300

A company plans to perform a reverse split and a spinoff on the same day

Spinoff

300

A number chosen at the inception of an index which is applied to the index to create a more manageable index value

Index Divisor

400

This vendor provides all Nordic related corporate actions and is a primary source.

Corporate Actions Accounting Data System (CAADS)

400
Despite a 2022 termination request and no products tracking this index, it required the largest number of corporate action announcements in 2025.

Horizon Kinetics ISE Global Wealth Index (WEALTHGL)

400

This Nasdaq team is the primary owner of United States securities in ExACT and inputs all US corporate actions.

Corporate Data Operations (CDO)

400

A company is being added to an index and a special dividend is being payed on the same day.

Addition to the index
400

This system uses 8 digit numbers to allocate each company to the subsector that most closely describes the nature of its business. 

Industrial Classification Benchmark (ICB)

500

Nasdaq requires a majority of these three vendors to match before the global corporate action is pushed to ExACT.

Six Financial (6TK or Telekurs), Exchange Data Interchange (EDI), Thomson Reuters (TR)

500

This long defunct index was the host's first and favorite index due to the funny portmanteau.

SINDEX (SIN)

500

This external company provides shadow calculations for our indexes and reports discrepancies.

INDXX

500

A company plans to pay out warrants and a rights offering on the same day

Rights Offering

500

This latin term translates to "in proportion" and means to distribute equally

Pro Rata