Reuters DataScope Select

Reuters DataScope Select supplies the full range of Reuters extensive pricing and reference data with the means to extract just the items you require, exactly at the time and in the format that you need:

• Fixed-income evaluated pricing for over 1 million US securities
• Evaluated prices on 80,000 European securities in four major currencies (Euro, Sterling, Swiss franc and US dollar)
• Contributed pricing from over 600 sources and 70 exchanges
• Comprehensive, global coverage of equities, funds, derivatives, money/foreign exchange and warrants
• Bond coverage includes governments, corporates, convertibles, high-yield, municipals, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities in 125 countries

With Reuters DataScope Select, you spend your time concentrating on your business, not on managing data. Reuters DataScope Select provides your front, middle and back offices with consistent data, promoting STP and ensuring accountability and clear audit trails. It meets the most stringent requirements for:

• Portfolio valuations and reporting
• Fund performance measurement and analysis
• Regulatory and compliance reporting.

• End-to-end transparency maximised via evaluated pricing, determined by Reuters team of experienced bond market evaluators, using methodologies that are published along with the pricing
• A service tailored to customers' needs –across asset classes and with access to real-time, intraday, end-of-day and historical pricing, and to intraday reference data updates – and with the flexibility to schedule data delivery in the format you need, at the time it's needed
• Single data source to power applications and data needs across the front, middle and back office
• Web-based service, requiring no new hardware or software – intuitive; easy-to-understand and use
• Flexible pricing scheme – you pay for only the data you need

• Hand-evaluated pricing
• Reference data using market leading symbology and terms and conditions across all asset classes
• Global equities from 180 exchanges
• Fixed income including market leading evaluations from 40 global pricing experts
• Mutual funds
• FX & money markets on 175 countries
• Derivatives
• Corporate actions
• Contributed content from over 600 sources and 70 exchanges

Flexible delivery options to suite your needs – Reuters DataScope Select offers a choice of delivery options to suit your organisational needs.

Portfolio browser based application – Comprehensive portfolio pricing in the convenience of your browser. No additional hardware or software necessary. Portfolios can be downloaded via the browser, FTP or Microsoft), and easily integrated into your internal systems.

Easy access straight from the Internet – FTP flat file – Bulk files are provided in the flat file format with clear header records over Reuters secured network. Files are released globally as each local market closes providing full updates to all trading activity for that day.

On-site Sybase database – The data resides on the organisation LAN in a relational database allowing API and/or SQL access. This will enable the choice of either intraday or nightly batch updates.