Refinitv Launches Quantitative Analytics Platform in the Cloud

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has launched its quantitative analytics platform QA Direct in the Cloud through Microsoft Azure. QA Direct in the Cloud builds upon the QA Direct platform, offering a scalable platform to manage, maintain and integrate quantitative analysis and investment data. The platform delivers a repository of financial data along with quantitative alpha models and other third party content sets allowing customers to explore how their investment hypothesis performs under a broad range of market conditions. QA Direct in the Cloud integrates and delivers a large range of global market and referential data in one standardized database with a unified symbology; all with the flexibility and security of a single Cloud platform. Proprietary data can also be integrated to sit along Refinitiv content, including Datastream Pricing (Equity & Index), I/B/E/S Estimates, Worldscope fundamentals, and StarMine Models.