PARIS and BOSTON, November 16, 2011: Linedata, the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that it has expanded the range of services available through its long-standing alliance with Interactive Data, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions. Interactive Data’s comprehensive global market data, including pricing, independent fixed income evaluations and reference data, are now available via Linedata’s integrated investment management solutions to institutional and alternative clients.
Clients of Linedata can now seamlessly access Interactive Data’s real-time global market data through the Linedata Trader+ and Linedata Beauchamp applications, real-time, historical and security master data through Linedata Longview, and intra and end-of-day pricing, static and corporate actions information through Linedata Icon. These additional services replicate the success model of combining data and products via Linedata Mfact, and enable Linedata’s front-to-back office clients to access a wide range of financial information to help them streamline and optimize their workflow.
Linedata focuses on integrating with various data providers to offer clients world class solutions to fit their business needs. The aim of the Linedata and Interactive Data relationship is to offer solutions that can help their mutual clients address regulatory reporting requirements and provide additional financial information for risk and compliance purposes. In addition, the solutions can help reduce client implementation times and offer supported interface builds.
“Knowing that our clients’ trend is to work with trusted partners, we strive to provide a platform that efficiently integrates a wide range of financial information,” states Gavin Little-Gill, global head of asset management strategy at Linedata. “We are delighted to continue to work with Interactive Data to bring a vast wealth of global market data to our collective clients.”
Mark Hepsworth, President, Institutional Business at Interactive Data adds, “We have decades of experience providing financial information and are a recognized leader in the market. We are pleased to work with leading software application vendors and service providers such as Linedata to provide financial institutions with access to the data that can help them meet their reporting and compliance needs, improve price discovery and enhance client service.”
ABOUT LINEDATA
Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 20 years with the set-up of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 136.2 million in 2010. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.
Linedata provides comprehensive front-to-back solutions and services to manage all types of investment processes, from pre-trade to post-settlement, across a wide range of firms, including institutional portfolio and collective management companies, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund managers, transfer agents, corporate savings fund managers, and subsidiaries of banks or independents.
ABOUT INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION
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 is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,500 employees in offices worldwide.
Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the US through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For more information about Interactive Data please visit: www.interactivedata.com