Corporate Events

Cross-jurisdiction corporate events normalization via MCP. A single consistent schema covering earnings dates, dividend announcements, stock splits, and M&A announcements across US (SEC EDGAR), UK (GlobeNewswire/RNS), Canada (GlobeNewswire/CNW), and Australia (ASX Market Announcements).

Replaces Refinitiv Datastream ($10,000-22,000/yr), Bloomberg Terminal corporate actions module ($24,000/yr), and FactSet corporate events data ($8,000-15,000/yr) with a programmatic, agent-callable API.

What it is

Signal	Source	Coverage
Earnings, dividends, splits, M&A	SEC EDGAR EFTS + submissions API	All public US companies, back to early 1990s
Regulatory announcements	GlobeNewswire UK RSS	UK/LSE-listed companies (sparse; FCA NSM requires auth)
Press releases, material changes	GlobeNewswire Canada RSS	TSX/TSX-V companies with ISIN and ticker
Market announcements	ASX MarkitDigital API	ASX200 + on-demand per code
Amendment resolution	In-process DB linkage	8-K/A linked to original 8-K via amends_id

No mobile device data. No scraping official registries. All sources are free and public.

Data Sources

Source	Jurisdiction	Auth	Poll Interval
SEC EDGAR EFTS + submissions API	US	None (User-Agent header required)	Hourly
GlobeNewswire country/United-Kingdom RSS	UK	None	2 hours
GlobeNewswire country/Canada RSS	CA	None	12 hours
ASX MarkitDigital /companies/{code}/announcements	AU	None	6 hours (rotating ASX200 batch)

MCP Tools

get_company_events

Events for a specific company by ticker, ISIN, or company name substring. On-demand enrichment fires all four sources in parallel if the company is not cached.

Input: { "query": "AAPL", "jurisdiction": ["US"], "event_type": ["earnings"], "days_back": 90, "limit": 20 }

search_events

Filter events by type, jurisdiction, and date range. Served from SQLite — sub-10ms warm.

Input: { "event_type": ["dividend","earnings"], "jurisdiction": ["AU","CA"], "from_date": "2026-01-01", "limit": 50 }

get_recent_events

Latest events across all jurisdictions ordered by ingestion time.

Input: { "hours": 24, "event_type": ["merger_acquisition"] }

get_pipeline_health

Last poll time per source, event counts, status (ok/error/never). Verify freshness before time-sensitive queries.

Input: {} (no parameters)

fetch_historical_events

Historical 8-K filings for a US company from SEC EDGAR back to the early 1990s. Walks filings.files[] pagination. US only.

Input: { "query": "JPM", "from_date": "2015-01-01", "to_date": "2016-12-31", "limit": 200 }

Normalized Event Schema

{
  "id": "a3f9b2c1d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1",
  "company": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "isin": null,
  "jurisdiction": "US",
  "event_type": "earnings",
  "event_date": null,
  "announcement_date": "2026-04-30",
  "source": "SEC_EDGAR",
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/.../aapl-20260430.htm",
  "raw_title": "8-K — 2.02,9.01",
  "details": { "form_type": "8-K", "items": ["2.02", "9.01"], "accession": "0000320193-26-000011" },
  "normalized_at": "2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "is_amendment": false,
  "amends_id": null
}

Amendment Flagging

is_amendment: true is set when form type is 8-K/A. After upsert, resolveAmendments() queries the DB for the most recent prior 8-K from the same company with matching item types and sets amends_id to link them.

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
PORT	No (default 3000)	Server port
DB_PATH	No (default ./data/events.sqlite)	SQLite database path

No external API keys required.

Running Locally

npm install
npm run dev

Ticker cache loads ~10 seconds after startup (10,365 US tickers). EDGAR polling runs immediately.

# Pipeline health
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:3000/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_pipeline_health","arguments":{}}}' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; h=json.load(sys.stdin)['result']['structuredContent']; [print(f'  {s[\"source\"]:12} {s[\"status\"]} events={s[\"events_indexed\"]}') for s in h['sources']]"

# AAPL events
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:3000/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_company_events","arguments":{"query":"AAPL","days_back":90}}}' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; r=json.load(sys.stdin)['result']['structuredContent']; [print(e['announcement_date'], e['event_type'], e['raw_title'][:50]) for e in r['events'][:5]]"

# Historical depth
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:3000/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"fetch_historical_events","arguments":{"query":"JPM","from_date":"2015-01-01","to_date":"2016-12-31"}}}' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; r=json.load(sys.stdin)['result']['structuredContent']; print('Total:', r['total_found'])"

Deployment (Railway)

Push to GitHub, connect repo in Railway. Set DB_PATH=/data/events.sqlite and add a volume mounted at /data to persist events across restarts.

Coverage Notes and Limitations

US (SEC EDGAR): Full coverage, hourly polling, historical depth to early 1990s.

Australia (ASX): ASX MarkitDigital API confirmed working at /companies/{code}/announcements. Background polling rotates 30 ASX200 codes in batches of 10 per cycle. On-demand fetch available for any ASX code.

Canada (GlobeNewswire): GlobeNewswire Canada RSS confirmed working with real TSX tickers and ISIN codes. SEDAR+ does not have a confirmed accessible public API endpoint.

UK (GlobeNewswire): GlobeNewswire UK country feed is sparse. FCA NSM returns HTTP 403. Investegate XML returns 404. UK coverage is best-effort — events_indexed may remain at 0 during quiet periods.

Not implemented: Exchange-validated settlement data (DTCC/CREST/CHESS are commercial), real-time intraday corrections, historical depth for non-US jurisdictions.

Not Financial Advice

This tool provides factual corporate event data from official and proxy sources. It does not constitute financial or investment advice.