FT Interactive Data increases its data offering to Linedata Services’ customers
27 March 2006
- FT Interactive Data’s reference data is now available through Linedata Services’ Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for Icon
Linedata Services, a leading provider of software and services to the global financial services marketplace, today announced the availability of reference data from FT Interactive Data Europe, part of Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC), and a leading supplier of financial information to global markets. The reference data will be available through Linedata Services’ Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for Icon, the complete back-office fund management and administration solution.
The Accredited Data Vendor Partner 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.
Customers of Icon can already opt to take prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data from FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration service. The new interface now makes FT Interactive Data’s reference data also available.
Paul Westgate, Icon Product Manager for Linedata Services, commented, “We are continuing to work towards providing our customers with a wide choice of data feeds that will meet their specific requirements for market data. By the end of the year we will have full market data interfaces to three of the leading vendors.”
This is another successful addition to Linedata Services’ Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme, which is 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 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 is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through its branded businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,100 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc (LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), an international media company whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 per cent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.
FT Interactive Data Europe, part of Interactive Data, is a leading provider of financial information and analytical software to global markets. FT Interactive Data supplies global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information designed to support mutual 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.
FT Interactive Data Europe is a division of Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The FT Interactive Data business includes FT Interactive Data Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and the FT Interactive Data divisions of Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For further information please see: www.interactivedata.com
Contact:
Sue Mitchell, PR Manager
Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)20 7825 8076
Email: sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com