A NEW GENERATION OF
REFERENCE DATA SERVICES
From Interactive Data,
The Reference Data Powerhouse
Contact 212-771-6908 to arrange a demo or to discuss how your fi rm can
benefi t from Apex: Interactive Data’s Next Generation of Reference Data Service.
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Improved Risk Management
Easier Integration
Global Investing, Global Hedging New Investment Strategies
File Transfer Messaging API Managed Services Client Interactive Data
Rich Data Sets in XML
Flexible Delivery
One Consistent Data Model Pre-Processed, Staged Data
Success in today’s markets demands constant innovation:
expansion across asset classes and geographies, the creation
of new investment and trading strategies, improvements in
operations, reporting and client service. At the same time,
fi rms must address regulatory obligations and improve
risk management practices.
Interactive Data introduces Apex: a new suite of reference data services to help address these issues with its breadth of coverage and ease of integration. Apex provides access to Interactive Data’s global coverage of 10 million instruments, across an extensive range of asset classes.
Clients can leverage this data on a timely basis with event driven data delivery capabilities.
A logical data model covering descriptive, pricing and corporate actions data provides a normalized, pre-processed data set, so that you can more easily search for and leverage crucial information.
APEX VALUE EXCHANGE
The data are always on, always accessible, always updated, allowing clients to respond faster to events that affect their portfolio, operations, and risk management activities.
Conventional wisdom has it that data costs substantially more to manage than to acquire. No longer: The Apex reference data platform can help to decrease costs while improving efficiency. The key work has been done by Interactive Data, so acquisition, storage and parsing costs of data management can be greatly reduced. The need to build feed handlers can be reduced or even eliminated.
Interactive Data’s innovative data model can also significantly reduce the complexity of introducing content into in-house systems.
Standardized delivery technologies such as XML put firms in a position to handle the future. Growth doesn’t have to be predicated on a major technology commitment and increased investment.
FLEXIBLE DELIVERy
Flexible and configurable delivery capabilities give clients the power to put the data where it needs to be: on a desktop, in an application or applied to a workflow. These capabilities include:
• XML-based file delivery and messaging • A Web Services API
• A Managed Database service
SUPERIOR DATA CONSISTENCy
The combination of the data model and delivery capabilities delivers another crucial benefit: data consistency. Enable your front, middle and back offices to access data based on their requirements and preferred methods and rest assured that everyone will access the same data, at the same time.
Investment strategy development, compliance, risk management and trade operations can be markedly improved while the cost of managing reference data can be significantly reduced. The benefits of using the new service are immediate and applicable to a range of firms including broker dealers, asset managers, hedge funds and asset servicing organizations.
DATA QUALITy
Timely, comprehensive and precise data
can improve investment performance, enhance efficiency and reduce manual data reconciliation activities.
LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGy
A broad and deep data model, flexible file delivery
capabilities, a web services, SOAP-based API and a managed database help slash development costs in a changing marketplace.
RENOWNED CLIENT SERVICE
From onboarding to data challenges and
issue resolution, Interactive Data is committed to helping you and your organization.
FLEXIBLE LICENSING MODEL
Multiple delivery options and license structures
mean that data can be purchased as needed.
ENABLE THE FRONT, MIDDLE AND BACk OFFICES
APEX OFFERS 4 kEy BENEFITS
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Logical Data Model* Client Delivery Framework
Scheduled File Delivery
Data Transfer Services Application Interfaces Managed Database Services
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- SOAP Web Services - RemotePlusSM
- High Performance API
Global Security Master Global Pricing Master Corporate Actions
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Content & Data Warehouse DEBT - Corporate Bonds - Government Bonds - Structured Products - Municipals EQUITIES
EVENT DATA ENTITLEMENTS
- Rights - Warrants
FUNDS
- Mutual Funds | Unit Trusts - Money Market Funds DERIVATIVES - Futures - Options - Swaps CLIENT/ EXCHANGE FEEDS REFERENTIAL INSTRUMENTS - Currencies - Indices - Commodities (cash) Comprehensive global coverage with exceptional
depth of data for numerous corporate action types, including capital changes, mandatory and voluntary corporate actions – covering approximately 90,000 companies operating in approximately 100 countries is provided.
Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers pricing and pricing-related data from more
than 450 markets and exchanges around the globe. This information includes bid and offer, last trade, open and close, high and low and volume data.
Detailed terms and conditions attributes across asset type, asset class, geography and market are provided for essential client use cases. For example: • identifi er • issuer name • exchange • ticker • currency • payment • frequency • coupon rate • maturity date • dated date • settlement date • fi rst payment date
and accrual method
COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL DATA SETS
GLOBAL DATA SERVICES
MANAGE REFERENCE DATA
Apex supports revenue-generating
activities by offering world-class
reference data for an extensive range
of asset classes, delivered in a way that
makes its integration significantly easier
and that helps to increase operational
efficiency. Investment and trading
strategy development, compliance,
risk management and trade operations
can be markedly improved, while
reducing the costs associated with
managing reference data.
ABOUT INTERACTIVE DATA
Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data’s offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data has over 2,500 employees in offices worldwide.
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