Data Vendors

SmartCo also enjoys a close relationship with today’s leading data vendors, enabling constantly updated connectors with their various data offers.




Avox, a majority-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, validates, corrects, enriches and maintains business entity reference data. This includes data such as corporate hierarchies, registered address information, industry sector codes and company identifiers. The company was founded several years ago in cooperation with several financial institutions that required a more efficient mechanism for improving data quality and timeliness. The Avox operational model is unique in the industry. Its success stems from the continuous enhancement and customization programs in place for each client. Financial institutions participating in Avox form a Community that collectively addresses poor client, issuer and counterparty data quality. The Community participants, which include some of the largest banks and asset managers in the world, both contribute and subscribe to a shared pool of data, processes and resources.

Link to Avox’s website



CounterpartyLink, Ltd. provides global legal entity data exclusively to the financial services industry. The data is collected and maintained with processes designed to be consistent with the stringent standards driven by today’s risk management and regulatory compliance requirements and is used predominantly for account opening, KYC, AML and risk management purposes. Detailed information on legal entities including corporations, governments and funds is collected in centres around the world, using primary sources and registration documents, with all data supported by an audit trail back to the source. CounterpartyLink employs rigorous, documented procedures to collect and verify all data and continually updates the information for corporate actions and other events.

Link to CounterpartyLink’s website

FactSet is a leading provider of financial data and analytic applications for investment management and investment banking professionals around the globe. FactSet offers instant access to financial data and analytics to thousands of analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers at the world’s financial institutions. FactSet’s counterparty and proprietary content offerings are built upon a strong foundation of a shared and consistent symbology at both the entity and security level allowing it to seamlessly integrate 200+ third party and proprietary content sets. FactSet has been listed as one of Forbes’ “200 Best Small Companies” for 12 consecutive years".

Link to Facset’s website




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. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds’ pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specializes in ‘hard-to-get’ information and evaluates many ‘hard-to value’ instruments.

Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the U.S. through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Link to Interactive Data’s website



Six Telekurs is one of the leading providers in the capture, processing and distribution of international financial information. A global network of local financial market specialists procures real-time stock exchange information directly at all major financial centers. Six Telekurs maintains a database of structured, encoded securities information unparalleled throughout the world in terms of both depth and accuracy of information on the one hand and data coverage on the other.

Link to Telekurs Financial’s website



Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Thomson Reuters powers the world’s markets, creates transparency, provides insight through independent news and content to enable decisions and is the trusted connection between people, transactions and ideas. A core component of the Thomson Reuters offer to the financial industry is their reference and market datafeeds, which deliver access to the world’s largest collection of proprietary content and market data, including intraday and end-of-day exchange pricing, estimates, deals data, ownership, fundamentals and more, with many content sets spanning more than 50 years of history. As a result of close cooperation with SmartCo, the Datastream and Datascope datafeeds are now accessible from directly within the Smart Financial Data Hub, providing access to a wealth of information including securities data, benchmark indices and constituents.

Link to Thomson Reuter’s website