Waters Rankings 2013: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters

“We have an aggressive roadmap in terms of content acquisition,” says Tim Lind, global head of middle office, enterprise content at Thomson Reuters. “Expanding our capability in terms of evaluated pricing has always been a big priority, and the recent acquisition of Pricing Partners is further evidence to our commitment to price OTC derivatives and structured products.” 

Coverage for corporate actions, regulations like Fatca and Solvency II, and transaction taxes are in the works. To accommodate massive integration of content sets for compliance purposes, the company will be consolidating its feed infrastructure and integrating data across many content products, including flagship data like funds and fund holdings from its Lipper team, and risk analytics from StarMine.  

The strength of its reference data is in getting the basics right while updating its offering to meet changing needs in financial services.