Linedata Services says that FT Interactive Data has joined its “Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme” for Icon, its back-office fund management and administration application.
Linedata Services’ Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme, launched in July, aims to offer existing and future Icon customers a choice of interfaces with data vendors to facilitate sourcing data for different assets from different vendors.
The programme certifies that each partner’s services can interface to Linedata Services’ Icon solution via its Data Integration Platform (DIP), and comprehensive testing is undertaken by both parties.
FT Interactive Data Europe is the second additional data vendor to join the programme. Over the coming months, FT Interactive Data Europe and Linedata Services will work closely together initially to offer existing and future Icon customers prices, evaluations and exchange rates through FT Interactive Data’s FTS service, to be followed by asset reference and corporate actions data.
“We have close relationships with our Icon customers, and a key theme among their strategies for the future is the need to have access to multiple data sources,” says Pete Hudson, Head of Product Marketing for Linedata Services (UK) Ltd. “The Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme is designed to ensure that our customers have proven access to quality data feeds. FT Interactive Data is committed to providing quality asset information to the marketplace, and we are delighted to be able to offer their services to our customers.”
Graham Parry, business development manager for FT Interactive Data Europe, says he is pleased to be working with Linedata Services. “This alliance will provide Icon customers with fast access via a seamless interface to FT Interactive Data’s high quality financial information,” he says. “At FT Interactive Data Europe we place strategic importance on the relationships that we have developed with software vendors across the world.”