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Market Data Briefs
Thomson Financial, a provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, announced a five-year global agreement signed in Canada with RBC Investments to provide 3300 Thomson Workstations, market data and services to RBC Investments in the Canadian market place. The agreement also includes the renewal of 4000 Thomson Workstations at RBC Dain Rauscher in the United States.
Reveleus, a business of i-flex solutions, announced that the International Monetary Fund has selected its business-intelligence and data-warehouse-technology offering for the design and implementation of a data warehouse to ease information access and management challenges for its Treasury department. As part of the solution, the IMF will implement Reveleus pre-built business analytics for a more thorough analysis of information in its liquidity planning, financial forecasting and reporting functions.
SunGard Market Data Services and Wall Street Source Inc., a provider of financial-information distribution, announced a new joint offering aimed at the institutional market. SunGard Institutional Pro, the new workstation for both buy-side and sell-side market professionals, integrates Wall Street Source's 1 Stop Pro with SunGard's quote applications and delivery infrastructure, providing an integrated desktop for real-time market information, charting, news, and securities-reference data.