The Bank of New York announced today has been selected as successor depositary for the Autonomy Corporation’s American depositary receipt (ADR) facility. The company’s ordinary shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange. Each ADR represents five ordinary shares and trades on NASDAQ under the symbol “AUTN.”
Autonomy Corporation provides infrastructure technology for automating the management, processing and delivery of unstructured information to and from sources across the Internet. Unstructured information is electronic content, such as web pages, e-mails and word processing documents, speech and video, that has not been organized or stored in specific formats. Autonomy’s technology supports call centers, customer relationship management, knowledge management, online publishing and security applications, and its customer base includes more than 1,000 global companies.
The Bank of New York says it currently issues depositary receipts for more than 1,400 programs representing 70 countries and accounts for 67% of all public sponsored depositary receipt programs.