FT Interactive Data offers comprehensive market data content to Linedata Services’ customers
4 September 2006
- Final interface to FT Interactive Data’s corporate action data provides wide-ranging market data offering to Linedata’s Icon customers
Linedata Services, a leading provider of software and services to the global financial services marketplace, today announced the availability of corporate actions data from FT Interactive Data, an Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC) business and a leading supplier of financial information to global markets. This completes the offering and enables customers of Linedata’s Icon solution to choose a wide range of FT Interactive Data’s content, covering reference data, pricing, evaluations, FX rates and indices data.
The Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for Icon, Linedata’s complete back-office fund management and administration solution, was launched a year ago. The programme provides jointly developed, seamless interfaces to data vendors as proven, ‘out of the box’ solutions that can be deployed quickly and easily, requiring no additional configuration.
Paul Westgate, Icon Product Manager for Linedata Services, commented, “Our customers now have the choice of full market data interfaces to two of the leading vendors, and this will increase to three by the end of the year. The project to widen the selection of data feeds available to our customers continues to be very successful and we are working with additional data vendors to increase this choice even further.”
The broad range of market data available from FT Interactive Data is another successful addition to Linedata Services’ Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme, designed to offer existing and future Icon customers a greater choice of data vendors and simple, fast access to multiple data feeds.
About Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company’s businesses supply time-sensitive pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and reference data 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. Through its businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.
FT Interactive Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. FT Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. FT Interactive Data specialises in ‘hard-to-value’ instruments and ‘hard-to-get’ information from emerging markets.
Evaluated pricing is provided in the U.S. through FT Interactive Data Corporation and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For further information please see: www.interactivedata.com
Contact at Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd:
Sue Mitchell, PR Manager
Email: sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com