JPMorgan enhances and re-launches ADR.com
New York, August 7, 2002-- JPMorgan announced extensive enhancements to its adr.com website aimed to vastly increase the depth of American Depositary Receipt (ADR) issuer and market analytics available to ADR market participants. A free portal to the 2,200-issue ADR universe, the site is the most popular website in the industry with more than 2.5 million hits per month, widely used by investors, brokers and issuers.
"Leveraging the latest technology, we have redesigned the interface and added new functionalities and content to deliver a more interactive and comprehensive user experience with regards to gathering intelligence on global equity markets and international issuers," said Patrick Colle, global head of JPMorgan's ADR Group. "With these far-reaching enhancements, the site is firmly positioned as the definitive source for ADR analytical intelligence and market data, and the most powerful on-line forum for ADR issuers to communicate with investors."
The revamped adr.com site combines news, market and trading data, consensus analyst recommendations with sophisticated search, charting and deep drill-down insight into an issuers' financial metrics. There are links to ADR issuer audio and video investor presentations and conferences which are archived for up to one year. Investors can access and download details on the entire ADR universe. And the site provides online access to purchase, and then actively manage one's holdings in JPMorgan-administered ADR programs.
Originally launched in 1998, JPMorgan's adr.com site has been widely recognized for its innovation, thoroughness, and ease-of-use by leading financial media including Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Barron's and CNBC.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $741 billion and operations in more than 50 countries. With relationships with over 99% of the Fortune 1000 companies, the firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private banking, private equity, custody and transaction services, retail and middle market financial services. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase is headquartered in New York and serves more than 30 million consumer customers and the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients. For more information, visit jpmorganchase.com and JPMorgan's adr.com, the central source for information on ADRs and international equities.
In 2002, JPMorgan marks the 75th anniversary of the ADR, the security it created in 1927 to facilitate international equity investment for U.S. investors. JPMorgan's Global ADRenalin equity research is available through the Bloomberg Professional® service under "ADRJ." Pricing and a list of constituents for the S&P ADR Index, the investable ADR index developed in consultation with JPMorgan, are available at adr.com and spglobal.com.
Neither this announcement nor the information contained herein constitutes an offer or solicitation by JPMorgan for the purchase or sale of any securities nor does it constitute a solicitation to any person in any jurisdiction where solicitation would be unlawful. An offering is made by means of a prospectus only. Information herein is believed to be reliable, but JPMorgan does not warrant its completeness or accuracy.