Fac t Se t data FeedSolu t ionS

Gain powerful solutions that help you organize data and information, distribute it across your firm, and manage its continual evolution to satisfy the needs of multiple workflows. Leverage our core strengths – data integration and management – so you can maintain and integrate data without sacrificing speed or flexibility.

FactSet dataFeed SolutionS

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Find a Smart Solution to Suit Your NeedsFrom raw data to complex calculations, you’ll be working with the same building blocks that FactSet uses to design and run sophisticated applications for financial professionals worldwide. Articulated processing rules for content and schema changes are designed to provide a robust, low maintenance solution that will simplify implementation and manage future data additions. Consistency across our broad range of datasets ensures your system will scale with your data needs.

Define and Integrate Data Effectively FactSet’s Entity Data Management solution uses a single entity-level identifier to effectively manage market data as well as reference data. Turn big data into smart data by exposing direct and indirect relationships and hierarchies between entities, securities, people, and funds. Our solution can be deployed across your firm on an enterprise-wide basis to link and aggregate a variety of content sources to meet your evolving analytical, risk management, concordance, and regulatory needs.

underStand riSk and complex relationShipS

Uncover meaningful insight that will drive alpha discovery and optimize risk management. Integrate and link any of FactSet’s robust content sets, including ownership, supply chain data, and geographic revenue for advanced analysis to gain a better understanding of risk and quantify your exposure to a security, an issuer, an industry, a country, an ultimate parent, or a specific set of securities.

SatiSFy global regulation

Take advantage of FactSet as a single source for your regulatory reporting needs and alleviate the burden of managing multiple data sources. FactSet provides essential security and entity reference data items such as regulatory identifiers including Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), NACE and CIC codes, as well as other key items needed to meet regulatory requirements such as Solvency II, Dodd-Frank, and FATCA.

take advantage oF a Single maSter Source

FactSet’s hub-and-spoke model connects disparate sources of information by mapping various identifiers and data points from heterogeneous sources to a single entity identifier. This entity-centric model, along with FactSet’s common symbology, provides a foundation to integrate and manage reference and market data while optimizing the organization of your firm’s internal content assets, as well as third-party data.

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Solutions for Benchmark DataGain a solution that will scale with your needs and reduce the time it takes to integrate data into your systems with FactSet’s Benchmark DataFeed. From performance measurement and client reporting to supporting your compliance and risk workflows, our consolidated feed delivers accurate data for a variety of global equity and fixed income benchmarks. Gain access to detailed constituent- and index-level information, including price, shares, weight, market value, sector, industry, maturity date, and more.

+ Rely on a partner with experience integrating symbology and benchmark data from many providers

+ Leverage FactSet’s existing relationships with benchmark providers to quickly integrate the data you need

+ Take advantage of our partnerships with third-party vendors, including various statistical packages and Eagle Investment Systems

+ Build custom and blended benchmarks with access to comprehensive coverage and unparalleled granularity for equity and fixed income benchmark families

+ Harness the power of FactSet’s hub-and-spoke model to comingle benchmark data with other FactSet DataFeeds

data integrity

FactSet will also work with you to incorporate your firm’s quality assurance standards. FactSet sends automated revisions as well as quality assurance notifications to ensure you are using the most accurate data available. FactSet also confirms that information is mapped correctly and data items are calculated according to official vendor methodology. Even after data has been updated and released to clients, FactSet continues to enforce active testing.

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Data Solutions for Quantitative AnalysisFactSet offers a range of delivery options with flexible formats to make sure you get the data you need, when you need it.

FactSet Standard dataFeedS

FactSet offers a variety of standard packages based on region and data items, as well as the ability to filter based on specified criteria, including universe and history. Comprehensive schema descriptions provide a blueprint to help you maintain a local copy of FactSet’s proprietary content. Take advantage of our DataFeed Loader to download files and update local databases based on your needs.

FactSet ondemand dataFeedS

Retrieve real-time and historical data, charting, news, and more with direct access to FactSet’s integrated databases, without having to add database software or additional infrastructure. Easily extract only the data you want to see, eliminating the need for local data management. Our Developer’s Toolkit provides a communication library and sample codes to make it easy to consume data. Our Documents OnDemand service also provides access to our unique textual content via API.

integration with StatiStical packageS

FactSet integrates with leading statistical packages, including MATLAB® from MATHWORKS®, R Project, and SAS® for statistical computing, so you can spend less time compiling information and more time performing analysis. From current data to deep historical information, create meaningful views of the data that are important to you and your strategies. You can also combine thousands of commercial databases with your firm’s data stored on FactSet.

Solutions for Real-Time Exchange DataKeep pace in a world where real-time data means real-time impact. FactSet lets you easily access tick data from global exchanges through one connection. Gain access to the normalized market data you need to power your trade order management systems, execution management systems, web portals, portfolio applications, and other applications.

Whether you use Windows or Linux, FactSet will meet your platform and delivery requirements. Choose to deploy FactSet’s solution via enterprise server or individual desktops.

Streaming data

FactSet’s API provides a framework for simple and elegant programmatic access to market data, eliminating the complexity related to maintaining connections, subscription states, and compression. FactSet uses TCP/IP socket connections to link to available servers in FactSet’s redundant data centers. FactSet supports C++, .NET, and Java programming languages for use with real-time data feeds.

SnapShot data

Make requests and receive responses via industry-standard web protocols. Retrieve real-time or delayed market data via FactSet’s web service technology in a normalized XML, HTML, or CSV format on an interval basis.

hiStorical tick data

Access historical time and sales data collected from the exchanges on a daily or ad hoc basis. Choose to retrieve the data for specific time periods and intervals to fit your unique needs. Return data in CSV format, then manipulate that data to be displayed in your own applications or databases.

order management SyStem partnerS

Leverage FactSet’s DataFeed solutions alongside top quality platforms such as Eze Software, INDATA iPM, and Advent Moxy®. Seamlessly access entitled real-time global exchange, reference, and benchmark data directly into your OMS. Simplify data entitlements and ensure secure delivery to the correct end user. In addition to our OMS partners, our expertise in data integration provides the flexibility to work with the vendor of your choice.

order routing

Gain an integrated solution to leverage new Order Routing channels in exchange for industry-leading data and analytics on FactSet. Leverage order routing connections across FactSet’s partners, including NYSE Technologies’ FIX network of more than 650 buy-side and more than 650 sell-side members, to subsidize the cost of FactSet market data integrated within your OMS.

Data Solutions for Application Development FactSet’s solutions for application development let you seamlessly integrate FactSet content into internal and third-party systems, without adding unnecessary software. Extract the data you need in the development environment of your choice. From ad hoc requests to regularly scheduled feeds, FactSet gives your developers the control to oversee design and functionality of your applications, while leaving the data management to us.

Send data directly to your applicationS

+ Rely on FactSet’s servers to handle authentication for requests so user permissioning is seamless

+ Make custom requests on the fly by changing the request URL to contain the updated parameters

+ Request and receive data from any system that supports standard HTTPS protocol and return data in the format of your choice, such as XML or CSV

+ Choose to return large quantities of data, including time series, in a variety of tagged or delimited formats for easy consumption

create your own local databaSe

+ Take advantage of seamless creation and maintenance of the MS SQL Server Database or Oracle Database with FactSet’s DataFeed Loader

+ Leverage FactSet’s hub-and-spoke model to easily cross-reference data across tables and content sets

+ Rely on nightly updates and delete files to ensure you have the most current data available

+ Map internal datasets to the FactSet data model with ease and create a fully integrated dataset to drive your applications

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