About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Blogs

Reuters to Tag FOW TradeData Using RICs

Subscribe to our newsletter

Reuters has forged a strategic alliance with FOW TradeData, a supplier of fundamental reference data for exchange-traded futures and options. The alliance will see combine around 20,000 of Reuters instrument codes (RICs) with FOW TradeData’s premium futures and options reference data tagged with around 20,000 Reuters instrument codes (RICS), which are now offered as part of Reuters DataScope. FOW TradeData takes in data from all of the major derivatives exchanges and complements this information by cleansing and validating it.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Recorded Webinar: The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability

Data is the fuel that keeps modern financial institutions’ motors running but if that data can’t be trusted then the decisions made based upon it, or the uses to which its put, will be compromised. That’s especially important for data that’s fed into artificial intelligence models. If the data isn’t clean, accurate and complete, then...

BLOG

The Case Against Ripping and Replacing: Why Capital Markets Firms Should Build Intelligence Into What They Already Have

By Neil Vernon, Chief Product Officer, Gresham. For years, capital markets firms have faced the same challenge: modernising sprawling, legacy data systems. Each attempt follows a familiar pattern – ambitious platform overhauls, eight-figure budgets, years of disruption – yet the old systems often remain in use long after the new ones are live. Replacing systems...

EVENT

Data Management Summit New York City

Now in its 16th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) NYC returns on September 17th 2026, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes – reliably, repeatedly and at scale.

GUIDE

Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material...