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Euro MTS

MTS is Europe’s premier facilitator for the electronic fixed income trading market, with over 500 unique counterparties and average daily turnover exceeding EUR 85 billion. MTS customers benefit from its relationship with Europe's leading diversified exchange business, the London Stock Exchange Group, which operates the largest and most liquid equity marketplace in Europe.

MTS markets provide the professional trading environment for the interdealer marketplace, enabling primary dealers from across the globe to access unparalleled liquidity, transparency and coverage.

MTS Data is sourced directly and exclusively from the MTS interdealer market and includes benchmark real-time data, reference data, reference prices, time series data and snap-shot data, providing the benchmark data source on the fixed income market.

MTS Indices provide the first independent, transparent, real-time and tradable eurozone fixed income indices, based on tradable prices from MTS. MTS indices are tracked by (and can be traded via) more than 28 ETFs in addition to numerous structured products.

http://www.mtsmarkets.com

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Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of 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.

http://www.interactivedata.com

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SIX Telekurs

Since 1930, Telekurs Financial has been the world’s best source of global securities pricing and reference data. Today, we offer uniquely structured and encoded securities reference and corporate actions/events data, real-time market data and flexible portfolio-based pricing.

With over 3 million global securities, our database is distinguished for depth as well as coverage. Telekurs directly sources data for control, and we rely on our analysts stationed in 16 countries for local expertise to ensure quality as well as world-class service.

http://www.telekurs.com

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Asset Control

Asset Control transforms data management from an operational burden into a powerful tool for competitive advantage for firms of all types and sizes. Our industry standard platform reduces costs and risk, manages evolving compliance needs and speeds the delivery of new products to market. A Fidelity Ventures company, Asset Control seamlessly integrates with internal and third party systems and applications to create a strategic business platform for future growth.

Some of the industry’s most successful firms depend on Asset Control. These include: Abbey National, ABN AMRO, Allied Irish Banks PLC, Barclays Capital, Barclays Global Investors, Bayerische Landesbank, BBVA, Commerzbank, Convexity Capital Management, E*TRADE Securities, LLC, Dresdner Bank, Grupo Santander, Harvard Management Company, HSH Nordbank, HypoVereinsbank, ING, LCH.Clearnet, Mizuho Financial Group, Macquarie Bank, Robeco Groep, Société Générale, Standard Bank, Standard Chartered, Union Investment and Wachovia Corporation

http://www.asset-control.com/

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Bloomberg

The Bloomberg Data Solutions product suite is unique in that it allows for single-source referencing for your global securities database by delivering indicative, pricing, calculated, historical, and corporate-action information. Bloomberg’s DATA LICENSE product provides access to the most comprehensive, timely, and accurate financial database in the world, and is designed to fuel critical applications and databases. Bloomberg’s evaluated pricing service (BVAL) produces credible, transparent and defensible valuations across a broad spectrum of financial instruments.

http://www.bloomberg.com

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Fidelity ActionsXchange

Fidelity ActionsXchange is the most trusted provider of flexible, technology-driven global corporate actions solutions for many of the world’s financial industry leaders. Leveraging more than 10 years of unparalleled analytical expertise, technology and service, we offer solutions that source, enhance, compare and validate corporate action announcements, turning even the most complex data into valuable intelligence. Our strategic value allows clients to reduce costs, mitigate risk, gain efficiencies and enhance transparency giving them the highest degree of control over their global event information.

http://www.actionsxchange.com

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Golden Source

GoldenSource provides an integrated enterprise data management (EDM) platform for the securities and investment management industry. Our software http://www.thegoldensource.com/company/about-goldensource/264-registration-submitted and expertise help our customers benefit from better management, storage and distribution of their data company-wide. Trading, risk management and compliance, settlement, portfolio accounting and other front, middle and back office functions all benefit from improved data management.

Data quality and availability is critical to operational efficiency, timely compliance, customer service and controlling risk. To achieve this, data needs to be available across business and technology silos, and be managed as an enterprise resource.

GoldenSource solutions dismantle barriers between data silos. Using the leading financial data model, GoldenSource creates a consistent and centralized data management layer. This transforms critical reference and transaction data into trusted and interlinked assets for use across the enterprise. Our products support all the critical business functions of a proven enterprise data management platform, including data acquisition, cleansing, normalization, validation, enrichment and distribution.

GoldenSource products, developed over 20 years, are mature, proven solutions that deliver the clean and reliable data necessary to achieve business goals and growth strategies.

http://www.thegoldensource.com/

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IBM

Some companies dream about making the world work better, others actually do. At IBM, we believe the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Our business is literally to make the world work better.
For nearly a century, the world’s leading financial services institutions have turned to IBM for help in addressing the industry's most intractable issues. Our research and development investments focus on helping firms drive profitable growth, balance costs with agility, improve their risk management and their own industry differentiation. Seeking to transform their businesses, clients continue to draw on our deep industry experience in integrating the hardware, software and services needed to help them holistically bridge their business and IT strategies.

IBM has helped our clients to simplify and streamline operations, integrate risk management and drive new insights - resulting in sustainable revenue growth. We’re ready to assemble the right components to help you capitalize on innovation and develop smarter solutions.

http://www.ibm.com

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Kingland Systems

Kingland Systems is a full-service technology outsourcing firm, providing reference data management, software engineering, and consulting to many large, international financial services firms for more than 15 years. We operate one of the largest data cleansing operations in the industry, on-shore in the US. Using our outsourced data services, data management software, and teams of professionals, firms rely on Kingland to provide highly accurate and custom data as well plan enterprise data and technology strategies. Our data expertise includes entity/client/counterparty data, corporate hierarchies, and securities reference data, and other forms of global financial reference data.

http://www.kingland.com

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NASDAQ OMX

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the world's largest exchange company, delivers trading, market data and exchange technology services across six continents. NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products provides unparalleled transparency, incomparable market depth and superior speed to investors worldwide. Our diverse product portfolio includes NASDAQ TotalView, NASDAQ Basic, Market Replay and Global Index Data Service.

http://www.nasdaqomxtrader.com/

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SmartStream Technologies

DClear, SmartStream’s Utility solution, delivers hosted Utilities that create flexibility and control through common processing. DClear’s utilities offer the dual advantages of a low-cost Utility model and the elimination of the capital investment required to build, deploy and manage reference data and back office processing.

By combining market-leading technology and industry expertise, DClear utilities establish a sustainable business model focused on reducing cost, operation complexity and cost-per-trade.

http://www.smartstream-stp.com/dclear

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Standard and Poors

Standard & Poor’s provides solutions that help organizations with clearance and settlement STP, compliance and risk management, security master file maintenance, data management, and mutual fund and client statement evaluations. Services include global securities identification and cross-referencing, securities pricing, reference data, credit ratings and research to support securities operations and investment managers worldwide.

http://www.standardandpoors.com

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Switch and Data

Switch and Data is a premier provider of network-neutral data centers that house, power, and interconnect the Internet. Leading content companies, enterprises, and communications service providers rely on Switch and Data to connect to customers and exchange Internet traffic. Switch and Data has built a reputation for world-class service, delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network of interconnections in North America. Switch and Data operates 34 sites in the U.S. and Canada, provides one of the highest customer satisfaction scores for technical and engineering support in the industry, and is home to PAIX®- the world's first commercial Internet exchange.

http://www.switchanddata.com

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Tradeweb

Tradeweb is a leading over-the-counter, multi-asset class online marketplace, and a pioneer in the development of electronic trading and trade processing. The company provides services in the fixed income, derivatives, and equity markets to clients in more than 50 countries. Since 1998, Tradeweb has operated a global trading network, which harnesses the distribution of more than 35 major dealers with over 2,000 institutional clients. With its expansion into the equity markets, Tradeweb is leveraging AutEx, the industry leader for 40 years in providing indications of interests, and Tradeweb Routing Network, a global FIX network with more than 7,500 connections to over 750 firms. Tradeweb is owned by Thomson Reuters and 10 leading global dealers.

http://www.tradeweb.com

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Capital IQ

Compustat – ClariFI – SystematIQ
Capital IQ delivers fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to investment managers, private equity funds, investment banks, and universities worldwide. Its solutions, based on the Capital IQ Platform, Compustat, ClariFI, and SystematIQ products, offer applications for research, real-time market data, backtesting, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis.

http://www.capitaliq.com

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MarkLogic

Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, healthcare, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winning Kellblog, written by Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg.

http://www.marklogic.com

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Mobius

Mobius Knowledge Services is a leading provider of Content and Data Services. Since 2002, we have built a reputation of excellence delivering technology-enabled out-tasking solutions supported by deep domain expertise to clients around the globe.

Our offerings for the Financial Services sector deliver custom, cost-effective solutions for data problems of all sizes. We specialize in helping financial services firms improve and manage the quality of their reference data and build and maintain custom databases filled with accurate and actionable information.

http://www.mobius-bizinfo.com/financial-services.htm

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Netik

Netik is a leading global provider to the Securities industry of financial data management and reporting services and products. Netik’s data management products, include Netik Global Securities Master, Netik GSMSM, a reference data managed service, Netik InterView™ a data warehouse for the storage of holistic financial data and Netik Information PortalSM to visualize and report on data. These Netik solutions sit at the heart of investment and securities operations at many of the world’s leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers, Private Banks, Prime Brokers, Fund Administrators, Custodians, Investment Operations Outsourcing providers and Investment Banks.

http://www.netik.com

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PolarLake

PolarLake works with Global Financial Institutions and Asset Managers to implement Pricing and Reference Data Distribution and Integration solutions.
We help our clients to control the collection, access and distribution of Pricing and Reference Data to internal consumers across their organizations. They work with us to:
• Control and ensure transparency on their end to end Data Supply Chain
• Achieve faster Time to Market than is possible with generic approaches
• Manage the Complexity of Pricing and Reference Data Distribution and Integration.
PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant.
PolarLake’s clients include 6 of the top 10 Investment Banks, 2 of the top 5 Prime Brokers and 2 of the top 10 Asset Managers in the world.

http://www.polarlake.com

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Smart Co

SmartCo provides Smart Data Hub, a leading enterprise data management solution that allows financial institutions to centralize, control, enhance and better administrate their market, reference and operational data flows. Its cutting-edge technology accelerates design, integration and deployment of durable and upgradeable solutions. SmartCo has been selected and recognized by large financial institutions as a strategic solution to reduce their risks, optimize their processes, meet regulatory expectations, and enable changes to be implemented faster.

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Volante

Since 2001, Volante Technologies has been the choice of top-tier banks and industry utilities for innovative data messaging solutions. With built-in domain awareness of complex formats like SWIFT, OPRA, FIX/FAST and vendor data feeds, Volante easily cuts integration time by half or more. Scalable to high volumes and fast enough for the lowest latency environments, Volante also provides a wide spectrum of data managements functionality, both inside the data stream and though live metadata management.

http://www.volantetech.com

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