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Data Distributors
If you pass FTSE data to third parties or clients, including, but not limited to, hard copy, e-mail, software application, extranet or web distribution, you require a distribution licence from FTSE. There are different types of licences depending on your requirements, so please contact marketdata@ftse.com.
Below is some information on a selection of our data distributors:
Bank of New York Mellon
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company. Its subsidiaries engage in various banking activities including trust and custody, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. Its service offerings are divided into seven distinct segments: Asset Management; Wealth Management; Asset Servicing; Issuer Services; Clearing and Execution Services; Treasury Services and Other.
As part of the Asset Servicing business Performance and Risk Analytics Index Services are offered as a stand alone or bundled product. Index Services verifies index data by either independently calculating or implementing stringent checks to ensure the highest standard of redistributed data. Furthermore, additional derived data elements can be calculated with vendor permission and a standardised file format for all index vendors, efficiently and cost-effectively solves the problem of incorporating numerous data feeds into internal systems.
Visit www.bnymellon.com
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg is the leading global provider of data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG TERMINAL and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world.
Visit www.bloomberg.com
- Capco
With offices in North America, Europe and Asia, Capco is the leading global provider of integrated consulting, processing services and products, engineered by financial services experts exclusively for the financial services industry. As pioneers of new ways of transforming operational capability and efficiency, we help clients successfully increase revenue, reduce costs and enhance control.
Visit www.capco.com
- Factset
FactSet is a leading provider of global financial and economic information, including fundamental financial data on tens of thousands of companies worldwide. Combining more than 200 databases into its own dedicated online service, FactSet also provides the tools to download, combine, and manipulate financial data for investment analysis.
Visit www.factset.com
- Fidessa
Fidessa, from royal blue, is a world leading solution for trading systems, market data and global connectivity. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, Fidessa is built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to all tiers of the financial community. With an unrivalled reputation for quality and reliability, Fidessa is the benchmark and product-of-choice for around 8,000 users at over 150 clients throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
Visit www.fidessa.com
- Financial Express
Financial Express provides a range of products and services to the fund management sector and to financial advisers and wealth managers.
Visit www.financialexpress.net
- Fininfo
Fininfo provides financial institutions with a range of products and services:
- Decision-support software, for financial market Front-Office operators such as: managers, traders, corporate treasurers, analysts, etc.
- Information necessary for the administrative processing of securities by Back-Office specialists
Bil, Fininfo's subsidiary, supplies a full range of business intelligence on all French companies listed with the national statistical office (INSEE), including legal and financial information, in-depth analyses for credit and client-risk assessment.
Since 2000, Fininfo has brought together its financial information transmission and its new stock market order routing and controls activities in e-Fininfo. e-Fininfo provides multi-platform distribution via the Internet, mobile telephone and television. It distributes financial information to on-line brokers and other generalist sites, as well as stock market order routing from investors to their on-line brokers.
Visit www.fininfo.fr
- SunGard Global Trading
SunGard Global Trading provides the financial community with trading & order management software, market data, middle & back office solutions and a proprietary network, GL Net, that provides links to 300+ executing brokers and over 120 cash & derivatives markets around the world. We cover the entire order lifecycle, from buy-side order sending to post-trade settlement.
Our trading system solution, GL STREAM™, is truly global and open. Whether you are a large financial institution or a small brokerage, we can provide you with a complete front to back office solution with real-time market connectivity - or just the modules you need. SunGard Global Trading also offers a large range of services, including project management and implementation, ASP, day to day maintenance, DBA & consulting. With 1400 staff located in 26 offices on five continents, we are able to serve global clients wherever they are located.
- Interactive Data
Interactive Data is a leading global provider of securities pricing, financial information and analytic tools to institutional and individual investors.
The company supplies time-sensitive pricing (including evaluated pricing), dividend, corporate action and descriptive information for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities.
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through its branded businesses - FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal - Interactive Data has approximately 1,800 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
FT Interactive Data provides FTSE indices data via its relevant services to both active trader and institutional clients.
Visit www.interactivedata.com
- IS Teledata
IS.Teledata is Europe's largest provider of managed market data solutions. About 150 retail banks, private banks, investment banks, issuers, asset managers, online brokers and media portals optimise business processes and costs using tailored content and interactive analysis of financial market data. IS.Teledata aggregates data from all asset classes and in-house content and integrates them into customised Internet and intranet applications as well as terminal solutions. Indices from FTSE can be obtained via IS.Teledata in customised solutions. Employees and clients of financial service providers benefit from relevant information and specific functionality in easy-to-use interfaces. IS.Teledata defines, develops and operates the applications.
- London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange, the joint owner of FTSE International is the world’s premier international equity exchange and a leading provider of services that facilitate the raising of capital and the trading of shares. It is the most international equities exchange by trading in the world and Europe's largest pool of liquidity.
Our business has four core areas:
Market Information
We supply real-time data, generated by the trading activity on our markets, to investors and market participants, both directly and through market data distributors.Equity Markets
We enable companies from around the world to raise the capital they need to grow, by listing securities on our highly-efficient, transparent and well-regulated markets.Trading Services
We provide the trading platforms used by broking firms around the world to buy and sell securities.Derivatives
Our derivatives business is a pioneering diversification beyond our core equity markets. EDX London is our international equity derivatives exchange. - Markit Group
Markit is the leading industry source for asset valuation data and services supporting independent price verification and risk management in global financial and energy markets. Founded in 2001, the company is an independent enterprise with which the world’s leading financial institutions and energy traders work strategically to create price transparency.
Visit www.markit.com
- Perfect Information
Perfect Information, established in 1991, is the premier online global provider of financial information. Investment banks, brokerage firms, consultancies and law firms use Perfect Information solutions. Perfect Information has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centaur Holdings plc, one of the U.K.'s largest business publishing and information companies. Products include:
- Perfect ANALYSIS: Global securities research, analysis and reporting application, delivering unrivalled charting, graphical and peer group functionality
- Perfect FILINGS: A corporate finance and capital markets database providing access to 5 million global company filings
- Perfect DEBT: An online database of over 210,000 fixed income securities designed exclusively for the debt markets professional
- Perfect RESEARCH SERVICES: On-demand research services with multilingual capabilities
- Perfect LEARNING: Conferences and learning programmes for the financial, legal, consultancy/audit and fund management sectors.
Visit www.perfectinfo.com
- Sungard APT
SunGard APT delivers flexible and reliable market risk models, software tools and applications and related professional services to the international investment management industry. APT’s products facilitate a clearer understanding of the dynamics of risk and allow for asset allocation, performance analysis and risk decomposition of investments for a multitude of asset classes.
- Risk models utilize Arbitrage Pricing Theory that remains accurate under changing market conditions
- APT combines industry-standard statistical factorization techniques and proprietary extensions to carefully assemble and test all market models
- Analytics help facilitate the measurement and forecast of risk, portfolio construction/optimization and regulatory compliance
Reuters, the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe based on our reputation for speed, accuracy and independence.
Approximately 357,000 financial market professionals around the world rely on Reuters services, providing them with the information and tools they need to help them compete. These include real-time information via desktops or data-feeds, unbeatable news, analytics and historical and fundamental data. Reuters broker-neutral trading tools provide access to the largest global trading community.
Visit www.reuters.com
- RIMES
RIMES is a leading edge data integration platform containing the world’s premier financial information. Internet-accessible databases provide a 24x7 portal to equity, fixed-income, funds and property benchmarks, economics, fundamentals, estimates, cross-referencing and asset classification data.
We have combined powerful desktop-accessible analytics for front- and mid-office use, with custom file processing for client-server applications such as risk, performance and valuations. In addition to being competitively priced for small user groups, customers can leverage RIMES across many departments; optimising the cost-effectiveness of their data architecture.
Data delivery is supported by a unique combination of quality assurance processes which are supported 24 hours throughout the global business week. RIMES’ skill and experience in the provision of these services is demonstrable through our growing relationships with buy and sell-side customers, globally.
Visit www.rimes.com
- Telekurs Financial
With over 75 years’ experience of gathering, processing and disseminating international financial information, Telekurs Financial with its 20 branches and offices maintains one of the most comprehensive securities databases worldwide (over 2.4 million instruments). A wide range of global and local products allows easy access to the full range of data on offer:
- Processing products for subsequent processing of the data supplied to your database
- Display products for specialized searches and on-screen display of data in a user-friendly format.
What makes the services of Telekurs Financial special is that structured and encoded fundamental and corporate action data is directly linked with up-to-date price information and financial news.
Visit www.telekurs.com
- Tenfore
Tenfore Systems is an independent provider of financial market data and technology solutions. Operating a global network of ticker plants, Tenfore provides regional data collection, consolidation and distribution to financial service clients and ensures that its range of consolidated feeds provide excellent performance to meet the increasingly exacting requirements of today’s financial services community. With the collection of data from nearly 160 sources, the Tenfore Global Market Data Feed is the underlying source for all of our products. We provide a broad range of products that deliver value-added market data for today’s professional user in a timely and reliable manner. By using our range of solutions we can accommodate those users who require high-quality fast-consolidated feeds through to those who need low latency availability through direct exchange connections or co-location and on-site processing.
Visit www.tenfore.com
- Thomson
The Thomson Corporation is a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. We serve more than 20 million information users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, financial services, scientific research and healthcare.
Visit www.thomson.com
- Townsend Analytics
RealTick, created by Townsend Analytics, is the electronic trading industry’s premier multi-asset, multi-broker, and multi-route direct-access trading platform. RealTick delivers real-time market data, news and analytics; sophisticated trading tools; unrivaled access to brokers, exchanges and ECNs; and risk management tools to institutions, broker-dealers and individual investors. RealTick’s advanced technical design is supported by state-of-the-art data centers and a redundant network for market data and orders.
Visit www.realtick.com