Interactive Data Corporation

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IDC might also refer to International Data Corporation, a market research firm.

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. Interactive Data's businesses supply time-sensitive pricing, evaluations 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 Interactive Data services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities.

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[edit] Divisions

IDC has a total of four divisions.

[edit] Pricing and Reference Data

This division includes global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions, investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research, and finally, portfolio management.

[edit] Real-Time Services

This division provides global online financial portals worldwide.

[edit] Fixed Income Analytics

For around 25 years, Fixed Income Analytics has sold its product, BondEdge, that is used for bond research, and valuation tools.

[edit] eSignal

This division provides global market data services.

[edit] History

Interactive Data was an early computer time-sharing vendor in the mid 1960s. Along with National CSS, Interactive Data used the IBM System/360-67 and the open source CP/CMS operating system as the basis for selling remote computer services. IBM had made this system available to customers in 1968, without support, in source code form. Both NCSS and Interactive Data hired key technicians from the CP/CMS community (at IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, and Union Carbide), and began selling computer time shortly thereafter. Interactive Data focused on financial industry; NCSS had a broader client base.


[edit] Current offerings

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Interactive Data’s businesses provide a range of enterprise-wide services, including:

  • Supplying global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments.
  • Providing real-time global market data and managed solutions to financial institutions, redistributors and online financial portals worldwide. Services range from a consolidated, low-latency data feed, to tools for building, managing and hosting customized applications.
  • Providing fixed income portfolio analytics in North America and Europe.
  • Providing, through its eSignal division, real-time market data and decision support tools to active investors and professionals worldwide.

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