Entity and Reference Data

Global Reference Datasets

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  3. How it works
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An overview of Global Reference Datasets

  • Comprehensive and reliable reference data across the financial markets spectrum including global coverage for legal entities, financial instruments, quotes and markets.
  • Our reference data helps to identify, classify and describe entities and securities. Discover and connect these to other datasets via our PermID.
  • Intuitive request-response, bulk access and curated desktop views to fit virtually any enterprise or application data requirement.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global
  • History
    From 1990
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    JSON
    Python
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    SFTP
  • Data frequency
    Continuous
    Daily

Features & Benefits

What you get with Global Reference Datasets

  • Covering 80m securities and investment instruments, our high-quality reference data is comprehensive, with intraday updates to ensure you have the latest information at your fingertips.
  • We offer both intuitive request-response and bulk access to a wide array of reference data content including entity, instrument and financial market reference data; symbology cross reference, terms and conditions and regulatory data. It includes various industry-wide and proprietary coding systems to identify instruments such as ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, RIC and PermID.
  • In addition we provide fully-integrated data from ANNA DSB, ESMA, FCA and Trading Venues to ensure full coverage of reference data required to meet MiFID II regulatory obligations.
  • We also provide bond schedules, factor histories, corporate actions, ratings, fund allocation and ownership data for fixed income instruments.
  • We actively monitor data quality metrics that track the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of our data and use these findings to continually improve our processes and controls. Further, the flexibility and breadth of our coverage fit virtually any enterprise or application data requirement, giving you the content you need.

How it works

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