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explorers limited securities financing data and daily long and short institutional fund flow insight type private industry financial founded 2002 founder mark faulkner headquarters london uk number of locations 4 offices in 3 countries 1 area served europe asia us key people donal smith jonathan morris charlotte wall christopher hanson len welter number of employees 110 website dataexplorers.com data explorers is a privately owned financial data and software company headquartered in london uk with offices in new york us edinburgh and hong kong . the company provides financial benchmarking information to the securities lending industry and short side intelligence to the investment management community . 2 the company has a global dataset covering 12 trillion of securities in the lending programs of over 20 000 institutional funds . data explorers offers access to quantitative measurement of securities lending performance and risk . the company provides analytics and data complied from trade and inventory data provided by market participants including lenders beneficial owners custodian banks agency lenders borrowers hedge funds and broker dealers . contents 1 history 2 services and products 3 references 4 external links history edit data explorers was established in 2002 by mark faulkner the author of the guide to securities lending markets . 3 donal smith formerly of thomson reuters was announced as ceo on 4 march 2008 . 4 it is owned by the private equity firm bowmark capital . 5 data explorers was ranked 27th amongst the top 30 fastest growing uk private equity backed companies in the sunday times deloitte buyout track 100 on 8 feb 2011 . 6 data explorers was voted the best information data provider at the gsl securities lending industry awards on 4 nov 2011 for the third year in a row . 7 8 at the twelfth annual techmark awards on 17 nov 2011 data explorers won the emerging star award . 9 at the financial world innovation awards on 2 dec 2011 data explorers won the information provision award for the data explorers news service . 10 2 april 2012 markit a leading global financial information services company announced the acquisition of data explorers a leading provider of global securities lending data from mid market private equity firm bowmark capital . 11 services and products edit the data explorers database tracks 12 trillion of lendable securities with 2 trillion of loan balances on average covering 30 000 equities 40 000 corporate bonds and 80 000 government bonds . the company products include apis data feeds excel toolkits mobile apps web based platforms and channel partners including bloomberg llc thomson reuters factset markit and capital iq . data explorers data is used as a proxy for short interest data by the mainstream media including the financial times 12 the economist 13 the wall street journal 14 and bloomberg 15 data explorers launched the restricted stock monitor on september 19 2008 providing data for all securities globally impacted by short selling regulations . 16 on october 6 2008 data explorers announced the desli index data explorers stock lending index showing the variations in the amounts of stock borrowed and amounts available to borrow in different regions and sectors around the world . 17 thomson reuters partnered with data explorers on 11 mar 2009 to provide short side intelligence to investor relations professionals . 18 on 12 jun 2009 data explorers partnered with factset to provide short selling analysis and securities finance data to factset research system s analytics platform . 19 markit announced a new index on sep 16 2009 the markit data explorers u.s. sector sentiment index that reflects sector level investor sentiment derived from securities lending and short selling information . 20 data explorers coo jonathan morris announced a partnership with bloomberg l.p. on 23 sep 2010 providing global long and short fund flow content to users of the bloomberg professional service 21 on 6 oct 2010 the financial times website www.ft.com included short selling activity from data explorers alongside market data on the company pages and stock screener 22 nasdaq omx announced a new index based on data explorers stock loan information to replicate return and volatility characteristic of the nasdaq 100 index on may 5 2011 . 23 the index screens out stocks with low liquidity or those that are relatively expensive to borrow in the share lending market . 24 on 19 sept 2011 data explorers and deltix announced that data explorers securities lending and repo data is available in the deltix quantoffice platform . 25 capital iq the data and analytics arm of standard & poor s announced new content from data explorers added to its market data platform and xpressfeed data management service on sept 26 2011 . 26 data explorers and direct edge announced a partnership on 6 oct 2011 after integrating daily securities lending information onto the direct edge market data distribution platform . 27 on 23 jan 2012 data explorers announced a partnership with narrative science to create a securities lending newswire using an artificial intelligence system . 28 data explorers launched the first iphone app for the securities finance industry on 31 jan 2012 for hedge funds prime brokers and custodians to access daily information on 3 million transactions . 29 on 5 feb 2012 data explorers was ranked for the second year in a row in the sunday times deloitte buyout track 100 . 30 references edit office locations . rebuilding the house builders squawk box cnbc june 16 2008 guide to securities lending markets commissioned by the association of corporate treasurers british bankers association international securities lending association london investment banking association london stock exchange and the securities lending and repo committee by mark faulkner bobsguide ben harrington bowmark in 32m alarm firm deal in the daily telegraph january 9 2012 p. b3 1 buyout track 100 securities lending industry awards 2011 data explorers scoops global investor isf data provider 2011 award for the third year running 2011 techmark award winners announced 2 financial world innovation awards markit acquires securities lending analytics specialist data explorers short sellers not to blame for hbos price fall says isla chief james mackintosh financial times june 18 2008 nasty brutish and short the economist print edition june 19 2008 the financial short selling spike david gaffen marketbeat the wall street journal july 17 2008 hedge funds covered bradford & bingley shorts as lender rallied tom cahill bloomberg news june 26 2008 data explorers announces launch of restricted stock monitor press release reuters september 19 2008 data explorers launches stock lending index press release marketwatch.com october 6 2008 thomson reuters adds data explorers analysis data explorers expands distribution capabilities through factset deal new index to gauge securities lending short selling data explorers adds long and short fund flow data to bloomberg ft.com to include short selling activity from data explorers nasdaq 100 data explorers optimized index launched to enhance liquidity nasdaq rolls out optimized nasdaq 100 deltix seeks alpha with data explorers 3 score one for data explorers new edge for data explorers data explorers launched robot journalist hedge funds access securities lending data on the move with data explorers app sunday times buyout track 100 external links edit data explorers homepage markit securities finance retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title data explorers & oldid 726232613 categories financial services companies of the united kingdomfinancial data vendorshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2014all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged 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