NEEDS is the market leading data source for back-office processing in Japanese securities houses. Clients using NEEDS for back-office processing, develop databanks using theNEEDS-CD-ROM/MT service; enabling data history to extend up to 40 years. This data is then supplemented on a daily/weekly/monthly basis with updates provided by the NEEDS-BULK/FDS service.
Typically, clients using NEEDS for back-office processing, will receive securities pricing data; including stock,fixed income, and derivatives EOD pricing data; as well as corporate actions, and financial statements data.

Advantage of NEEDS
Coverage
NEEDS covers a whole range of Japanese market, corporate and economic data. Using the Nikkei code for equities and fixed-income, data can be stored consistently as a historical cleansed security master copy. We also use the standard 4-digit quick code, and ISIN code.

Accuracy
Accuracy is the main focus of NEEDS. Client-side data cleaning and correction work can be minimized because of the accuracy of NEEDS data.

Market Share
NEEDS is the most commonly used reference data for the Japanese market. All top 10 Japanese securities companies use NEEDS in their critical business transactions.

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