Challenging the status quo, every day
As a relative newcomer to the indexing industry, we’ve always had to do things differently. Rather than rely on our brand to attract and retain business, we’ve listened to what our clients told us they needed – speed of execution, fair pricing, customization of our products to suit them, flexibility and scalability. And then we’ve gone out and done exactly that. Every day.
And we’ve kept on listening, adding to our products and range of services along the way. This has helped us grow consistently and we’re now present in Frankfurt, Berlin, Dresden, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam.
Wide range of indices
We design, calculate and license financial indices with the highest standards. From broad benchmark indices to highly flexible solutions, we offer the full spectrum of index products to our clients, which include asset managers, investment banks and ETF providers around the world. And we’re able to calculate indices using all available asset classes – there are no limits to what can be part of an index as long as it has a price.
Management Team
As we have grown, so has our leadership team. Each brings extensive industry experience with them and a passion for building a company that does things differently.
Our principles
We take our cue from our clients when deciding what’s important to us. So it will come as no surprise that security, technical infrastructure and regulatory compliance are high on the list. However, it’s just as important to us to ensure that we truly deliver the products and service that our clients are looking for.
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Security
The security of your business is something on which we place a great deal of importance and the foundation of the trust that you have in us. We set ourselves the highest standards for data protection and continuity, and employ a number of industry standard layers of technology to protect and secure data. These include geographically separate primary and secondary data centers, with multiple layers of redundancy, data mirroring and sophisticated failover services, which are complemented by strict physical and logical access controls to the processing platforms.
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Regulation
While staying up to date with regulatory developments is important for most businesses, it's imperative in an industry such as ours, where the accuracy, reliability and integrity of benchmarks is key. This is why compliance with the applicable regulations is at the core of our business strategy. We are registered as benchmark administrator under the European Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) with the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and comply with the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks.
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Proactivity
When you’re starting out, you need to differentiate yourself from the competition. So we looked around at what our competitors were doing and at what they weren’t doing. We decided to offer our clients what they said they needed, such as speed – time is money after all. Or true partnership – developing products together with them that matter to them. We believe it is this attitude and work ethic that have got us to where we are today, and will continue to make both ourselves and our clients successful in the future.