July 19, 2013 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that is has been voted Best Reference Data Provider and Best Low-Latency Data Technology Provider in Waters Rankings 2013.
This is the second consecutive year that Thomson Reuters has won the 'Best Reference Data Provider' award and the fourth consecutive win for the 'Best Low-Latency Data Technology Provider' award.
The Waters Rankings are a widely respected industry award program based on a polling of qualified readers of Waters Technology, a financial IT publication from Incisive Media, with a circulation of over 10,000 monthly readers.
"We are honored to be recognized again this year as a leading provider of reference data and low-latency data feeds," said David Craig, president, Financial & Risk, Thomson Reuters. "Winning in both these categories for consecutive years is a direct endorsement from our customers and reinforces our continued commitment to deliver the most scalable and robust solutions to the financial community. We are extremely pleased that our customers and the broader industry recognize our dedication and we thank them for these honors."
Elektron Real Time is Thomson Reuters next generation real time consolidated feed. Thomson Reuters Elektron is a high performance, cross-asset data and trading infrastructure that connects financial institutions and trading venues across the world. It distributes low-latency data from over 350 exchange-traded and OTC markets to trading and investment applications, systematic and algorithmic trading engines and desktops such as Thomson Reuters Eikon. With co-location and proximity hosting sites in financial centers globally, Elektron provides low-latency market access and a full range of managed services, including those for key proprietary and third-party data and trading applications.
Thomson Reuters Datascope is a robust and scalable delivery platform for non-streaming content, used by over 2,300 clients worldwide on a daily basis. The platform is a full cross-asset offering providing end of & intra-day content including evaluated pricing, legal entity, analytics, corporate actions and reference data. This valued content enables our clients to better support their risk mitigation, portfolio management, fund administration and compliance workflows and systems across the front, middle and back office.
The Waters Rankings were announced on July 18, 2013 at an awards ceremony in New York.
