BGCantor Market Data and Thomson Reuters Expand Data Delivery Services
New York – 29 October, 2009 – BGCantor Market Data, L.P. a leading market data provider and subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc., and Thomson Reuters today announced that BGCantor’s industry recognised benchmark U.S. Treasury, interest rate derivatives, and European Government Bond data is now available for application consumption via Thomson Reuters suite of data distribution services, including its real-time and end-of-day pricing feeds, together with their historical time series and tick archive offerings.
Thomson Reuters customers can now access these datasets for use across a variety of enterprise applications in addition to the existing desk top services.
Bernie Weinstein, Executive Managing Director and head of BGCantor Market Data, said: “By making our benchmark U.S. Treasury, European Government Bond, and interest rate derivative data available via Thomson Reuters’ feed platforms, we will cost-effectively add genuine value to customers’ trading, risk, valuation and other applications.”
Mike Powell, Global Head of Enterprise Information for Thomson Reuters said: “Securing flexible usage rights from market leading sources of valuable information is key to our mission of supporting business automation within our customers’ organisations. Working together with BGCantor Market Data to provide such flexibility in relation to their high quality OTC data can only benefit customers looking to leverage our feeds and distribution platform to support pricing engines, risk management systems and other essential applications.”
About BGCantor Market Data
BGCantor Market Data, a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. is one of the world’s premier suppliers of real-time, tradeable, indicative, end-of-day, and historical fixed income and derivatives data. As the exclusive source for market data derived from BGC Partners and eSpeed, BGCantor Market Data’s products and services are used by finance professionals for price discovery, analysis, risk management, portfolio monitoring and valuation, and research. Our product suite spans fixed income, foreign exchange and foreign exchange options, credit derivatives, and structured products.
Thomson Reuters
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BGC Partners
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Thomson Reuters
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