| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Market Data |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Number of locations | 2, in 2 countries |
| Area served | Europe, Asia, US |
| Key people | Mark Faulkner, Donal Smith |
| Website | dataexplorers.com |
Data Explorers is a privately owned financial data and software company headquartered in London, UK. The company provides financial benchmarking information to the Securities lending Industry and short-side intelligence to the Investment Management community.[1].
Data Explorers offers access to a data feeds and products for quantitative measurement of securities lending, performance and risk. The company is based in New York and London and collects data from market participants including Lenders, Beneficial Owners, Custodian Banks, Agency Lenders, Borrowers and Broker Dealers.
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Data Explorers was established in 2002 by Mark Faulkner, the author of the Guide to Securities Lending Markets[2]
Donal Smith, formerly of Thomson Reuters, was announced as CEO on 4 March 2008 [3] and has sinced hired Jonathan Morris as COO and Christopher Holmes as Sales Director [4]
Data Explorers data is used as a proxy for short interest data by the mainstream media, including The Financial Times [5], The Economist [6], The Wall Street Journal [7], and Bloomberg [8]
Data Explorers launched the Restricted Stock Monitor on September 19th 2008 providing data for all securities globally impacted by short selling regulations [9]
On October 6th 2008, Data Explorers announced the "DESLI" Index - Data Explorers Stock Lending index showing the variations in the amounts of stock borrowed and amounts available to borrow in different regions and sectors around the world [10].