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Reference data
63 products carry this category. Categories are tags, so several of these also appear elsewhere.
What is meant by Reference data?
The descriptive data that identifies an instrument and its terms: identifiers, issuer, maturity, coupon, exchange, classification, and the relationships between an instrument, its issuer and that issuer's corporate parent.
Who uses Reference data?
Operations and data teams; everything downstream depends on it.
What gets confused with Reference data?
Market data. See that entry. Also confused with data management, which is the discipline of governing data rather than a source of it.
What should you ask a vendor about Reference data?
Identifier coverage for your least-liquid holdings is the test. Everyone covers large-cap equities.
This definition is Buyside Fintech’s own editorial work, not a vendor’s. The products listed below carry the sources we read.
Reference data products
63 PRODUCTS
AlphaCert Investment Data Management PlatformAlphaCertIngests investment data from internal and external sources, validates and transforms it, and holds it as a single record for fund managers' investment operations teams.AquataArcesiumCloud data and analytics platform used by hedge funds and asset managers for security master, data modelling, governance and quality control; sits beside the Opterra operational platform.Bloomberg TerminalBloombergSoftware system giving financial professionals real-time market data, news, analytics and trade execution; it debuted in December 1982.BVAL (Bloomberg Valuation Service)BloombergBloomberg's evaluated pricing service for fixed income, widely used by buy-side firms; I could not open any Bloomberg page to confirm the product name or coverage.OpenFIGIBloombergFree identifier mapping portal and API for the FIGI open symbology standard, with Bloomberg acting as Registration Authority under the Object Management Group standard.Charles River Data PlatformCharles River DevelopmentCloud data warehouse plus AI-assisted enterprise data management that feeds front, middle and back office; part of the State Street Alpha platform.KneipClearstreamFund data management, document dissemination and regulatory reporting for asset managers; became part of Clearstream and Deutsche Börse Group in 2022.CuriumEDMCurium Data SystemsSmaller-footprint enterprise data management and data quality platform for buy-side operations, available as CuriumSaaS hosted on Microsoft Azure; founded as Sun Street Limited and renamed in 2015.DatabentoDatabentoUsage-priced APIs for real-time and historical tick data with full order book depth across futures, options and equities, plus raw PCAPs and reference data; the site announces a $97M Series B and more than 3,000 customer firms, and its own timeline dates the founding to February 2019.Datactics Augmented Data QualityDatacticsData quality software that profiles, cleanses and matches data records, with automated rule generation.GrataDatasitePrivate company search and deal sourcing platform for the middle market; Datasite announced its acquisition of Grata on 3 June 2025 and is merging it with Sourcescrub.ALERTDTCCGlobal database where investment managers, brokers and custodians maintain and share account and standing settlement instruction data.EDI Reference DataExchange Data InternationalIndependent supplier of global corporate actions, pricing and security reference data drawn from around 700 sources.Worldwide Equity Corporate ActionsExchange Data InternationalIndependent corporate actions data house processing around 25 million events a year, with sibling feeds for dividends, shares outstanding, IPOs and readable event notices.Worldwide Fixed Income Evaluated PricingExchange Data InternationalDaily independent prices for corporate and municipal bonds, syndicated loans, agency MBS, CMO, CMBS, ABS and CLO securities.FactSetFactSet Research SystemsIntegrated workstation for real-time news, quotes, company analysis and portfolio analysis, formed in 2009 by merging the earlier DIRECTIONS, Marquee and IBCentral platforms.FE fundinfo FactsheetsFE fundinfoFund factsheets and automated PRIIPs, UCITS, SFDR and TCFD document production, with dissemination to platforms and distributors.Fencore Data Management PlatformFencoreNewer data management platform for financial institutions, listed as a direct competitor to GoldenSource and NeoXam; its own website returned no readable content, so the product name could not be confirmed from the vendor.DatabankFIA TechReference data for exchange-traded derivatives across 41,000 products and 75 exchanges, covering position limits, exchange and clearing fees, contract specifications, cross-reference symbology and corporate actions.Financial DatasetsFinancial DatasetsA market data API written for AI agents, covering real-time prices, 30 years of fundamentals, operating metrics and SEC filing excerpts across about 27,500 stocks.LUSIDFINBOURNE TechnologyAPI-first investment data management platform that builds a single trusted record of instruments, positions and transactions across public and private assets.FIS Corporate Actions SuiteFISSWIFT-accredited SaaS suite covering the full event lifecycle, with separate Corporate Actions Manager, Data Services and Election Portal components.GoldenSource EDMGoldenSourceGolden-copy enterprise data management built from Security Master, Entity Master, Product Master and a packaged cloud edition called EDM Now.GoldenSource EDM NowGoldenSourceCloud-native, pre-packaged security master aimed at firms that do not want to build a full enterprise data management deployment.GoldenSource Security MasterGoldenSourceCentralised security and reference data mastering with validation, golden-copy modelling and governance; sold alongside Entity Master, Product Master, Price Master and Corporate Actions Master.Opus EDMGresham TechnologiesCollects, connects and curates structured and unstructured data into a single source of truth, with a data dictionary and product and account masters.Prime EDMGresham TechnologiesEnterprise data management for pricing and reference data that names corporate actions as a core use case; Gresham also sells Control Cloud, Connect Cloud, Pulse Data and Opus EDM.IVP Enterprise Data ManagementIndus Valley PartnersCentralises and governs data workflows for alternative asset managers, sold alongside a Security and Reference Master and a cloud Data Warehouse.IVP Security and Reference MasterIndus Valley PartnersStandardises, validates and distributes instrument, entity and counterparty reference data to accounting, OMS, risk and reporting systems for hedge funds and private markets firms.ICE Consolidated FeedIntercontinental ExchangeStreaming low-latency consolidated data feed delivered over the ICE Global Network, alongside ICE Consolidated History for tick archives and Continuous Evaluated Pricing.ICE Corporate Actions ServiceIntercontinental ExchangeCorporate actions reference data covering over 54 ISO event types for roughly 80,000 companies in more than 100 countries, delivered intraday.ICE Pricing and EvaluationsIntercontinental ExchangeIndependent end-of-day and continuous evaluated prices for fixed income, loans, whole loans and derivatives, delivered by an SEC-registered investment adviser entity.ICE Pricing and Reference DataIntercontinental ExchangeSecurities reference data alongside evaluated pricing and curves, delivered through the legal entity ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC.Kaiko Reference DataKaikoDigital asset reference data covering crypto asset identifiers, supply metrics and derivative contract specifications, alongside market data, indices and fair value pricing.DataScope corporate actionsLSEGIntraday corporate actions data delivered in ISO 15022 and proprietary formats for pre-trade and post-trade processing.LSEG Pricing ServiceLSEGIndependent evaluated pricing covering over 3 million fixed income securities and derivatives; blends dealer quotes, trade prices and comparable instruments.LSEG WorkspaceLSEGMarket data workstation combining datasets, Reuters News, StarMine and MarketPsych analytics and a Python environment called CodeBook; it is the successor to Refinitiv Eikon.Nasdaq Data LinkNasdaqData marketplace distributing financial, economic and alternative datasets to analysts and quantitative teams.NeoXam DataHubNeoXamMaster data management platform that consolidates securities, entities, corporate actions, funds, ESG and benchmark data into one golden copy for buy-side and asset-servicing firms.VectorPortfolio BIData management product for alternative asset managers, sold with Archon for security and reference master and XtractIQ for private markets extraction.Preqin ProPreqinData on private capital funds, their managers, investors and deals, used to raise capital, screen managers and benchmark performance across alternative asset classes.GlobalCorporateActions APIQUODDCloud REST API for corporate actions data across more than 190 exchanges, pitched as a replacement for legacy feeds and files; xignite.com now redirects to QUODD.QUODD QX Digital PlatformQUODDCloud-delivered market data covering pricing, reference data and fundamentals for more than 1,800 institutions, sold as the QX Digital Platform, APIs and data feeds, and an Equity+ securities workstation.QUODD Security Master and Reference DataQUODDNormalised security master across 200+ markets with Symbol, CUSIP, ISIN, FIGI and SEDOL mapping, plus corporate actions, mutual fund and fixed income reference data delivered by API; the xignite.com domain now redirects to QUODD.Xignite Market Data CloudQUODDCloud-native market data APIs built to run in AWS; xignite.com now issues a 301 redirect to quodd.com, which is the clearest current sign that the product sits inside QUODD rather than an independent Xignite.Rimes Enterprise Data ManagementRimes TechnologiesIngests, validates, enriches and governs investment data across asset classes and delivers it into tools such as Databricks and Snowflake.Rimes Intelligence Fabric for Capital MarketsRimes TechnologiesManaged data service covering security master, price master and entity master alongside benchmark, index, ESG and private markets data.Corporate Actions SaaSS&P GlobalCloud corporate actions processing with a risk engine, exception dashboards and election capture; sold to asset managers, wealth managers, service providers and brokers, and originally branded IHS Markit before the S&P Global merger.Managed Corporate ActionsS&P GlobalValidated corporate actions data service covering roughly 4 million securities and 1.5 million active events from 200-plus sources, sold standalone or bundled with the SaaS processing platform.S&P Capital IQ ProS&P GlobalDesktop platform from S&P Global Market Intelligence delivering multi-asset and real-time data, research, news and analytics to institutional clients; the source page describes the Capital IQ brand rather than the Pro platform in detail.SaphyreSaphyreHolds account opening, legal agreement and standing settlement instruction data in one place shared by the buy side, its brokers and its asset servicers, so trading accounts are ready to trade and settlement instructions stay current.SimCorp GainSimCorpEnterprise data management offering sold with the SimCorp One investment platform and managed data services for institutional investors.Evaluated Pricing ServiceSIX GroupEvaluated prices across 36 currencies for investment grade, high yield, ABS, MBS and CLO instruments, refreshed six times daily.SIX Market & Reference DataSIX GroupPricing, corporate action and instrument data across 36 million instruments, delivered by market data feed, APIs, files, Snowflake or the SIX iD desktop display.SIX Reference Data (Valordata Feed)SIX GroupInstrument master and reference data on over 30 million instruments, delivered by Valordata Feed, SIX Flex, web and bulk APIs, and Snowflake.Smart Data (Reference Data Utility)SmartStream TechnologiesManaged, mutualised reference data service delivering cleansed securities data pre-market for equities, fixed income, futures, options and derivatives, with MiFID, EMIR and T+1 support.SSI AutomateSSImpleTurns manual, non-ALERT standing settlement instructions into an automated extract, validate and enrich process; sister products SSI Validate and SSI Comply feed validated SSIs into DTCC ALERT.Coin MetricsTalosDigital-asset market and on-chain data, reference rates, prices, indexes and the datonomy classification system, delivered by API to asset managers, hedge funds and crypto funds.Twelve DataTwelve DataAPI, WebSocket and SDK access to real-time and historical data for stocks, forex, crypto and fundamentals across 250-plus exchanges; the company describes itself as a distributed team with no single headquarters.RapidLEIUbisecureGLEIF-accredited LEI issuer (accredited since 2018) providing LEI registration, renewal, transfer, bulk management and vLEI credentials by API.EODHD APIsUnicorn Data ServicesReal-time, historical and end-of-day data APIs covering 60-plus exchanges and 150,000-plus tickers, with fundamentals, WebSocket feeds and news; the site's copyright line reads Unicorn Data Services, 2017-2026, which is not a stated founding year.EODHD ID Mapping APIUnicorn Data ServicesLow-cost API that resolves CUSIP, ISIN, FIGI, LEI and CIK to tradable symbols and back, used by smaller funds that cannot license a full security master.Versana Digital Data PlatformVersanaTakes loan agent data for broadly syndicated loans and private credit directly from administrative agents and publishes it to lenders in real time, with a reconciliation module on top.