ICE Data Services (formerly known as Interactive Data) was an American 1960s-founded

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services company that later became known for providing financial

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(

financial data vendor A financial data vendor provides market data to financial firms, traders, and investors. The data distributed is collected from sources such as stock exchange feeds, brokers and dealer desks or regulatory filings (e.g. an SEC filing). History ...

), analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and

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for securities trading, including hard-to-value instruments. The company was acquired by and folded into

Intercontinental Exchange Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) is an American multinational financial services company formed in 2000 that operates global financial exchanges and clearing houses and provides mortgage technology, data and listing services. Listed on the ...

in December 2015.

Products

Interactive Data provided evaluation services, reference data, pricing services, derivatives services, Fair Value Information Services, low latency market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, Web-based solutions, desktop solutions, the eSignal suite of products, and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data including quantitative ESG risk indicators for individual companies and sectors (current figures as well as historical data for the past two years) provided by RepRisk, a global business intelligence provider specialized in ESG risk analytics and metrics.

History

Timesharing services

Founded in 1968 as a

Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the Technological and industrial history of the United States, American Industrial Revoluti ...

-based

time-sharing In computing, time-sharing is the Concurrency (computer science), concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each Process (computing), task or User (computing), user a small slice of CPU time, processing time. ...

company, ''Interactive Data Corporation'' was acquired by

Chase Manhattan Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding ...

in 1974. Like competitor

National CSS National CSS, Inc. (NCSS) was a time-sharing firm in the 1960–80s, until its acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet in 1979. NCSS was originally headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, but relocated to Wilton in 1978. Sales offices, data centers, and ...

(NCSS), their time-sharing service was based on IBM's

CP/CMS CP/CMS (Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System) is a discontinued time-sharing operating system of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is known for its excellent performance and advanced features. Among its three versions, CP-40/CMS was an im ...

software for the IBM System 360 Model 67. IDC focused on the financial industry, while NCSS had a broader client base. In 1984, Chase expanded IDC by purchasing

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's ''Telstat Systems'' division.

Data services

In 2002 Interactive bought

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's securities pricing service. Interactive Data became known as a supplier of financial market data and related offerings, "including data bases used for economic forecasting." Acquisitions have contributed to Interactive Data's growth, enabling the company to deliver an increasing range of services, while expanding into adjacent markets and extending its reach geographically. Later on, Pearson PLC owned 61% of the company. In 2010 the company announced the completion of its acquisition by two private equity firms,

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and

Silver Lake Partners Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., is an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments. Silver Lake is headquartered in Silicon Valley and New York, and has offices in London, Hong Kong, and ...

. In 2015,

announced the acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation from Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake Partners.

References

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