Headquarters at Bay Adelaide Centre at 333 Bay Street, Toronto | |
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Industry | Mass media |
Predecessor | |
Founded | 17 April 2008; 11 years ago Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Headquarters | Toronto, ON, Canada |
Worldwide | |
Key people | David Thomson (Chairman) David W. Binet (Deputy Chairman) James C. Smith (President and CEO) |
Revenue | US$ 5.5 billion (2018)[1] |
US$ 780 million (2018)[1] | |
US$ 3.098 billion (2016)[1] | |
Total assets | US$ 27.852 billion (2016)[1] |
Total equity | US$ 12.773 billion (2016)[1] |
Owner | The Woodbridge Company (59.6%)[2] |
11,000 (Q1 2019)[3] | |
Subsidiaries | Reuters Sweet & Maxwell West |
Website | ThomsonReuters.com |
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Thomson Reuters Building in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut. The office previously served as the world headquarters for The Thomson Corporation.
Thomson Reuters Corporation (/ˈrɔɪtərz/) is a Canadian[4]multinationalmass media and information firm. The firm was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at 333 Bay Street (Bay Adelaide Centre) in Downtown Toronto.[5][6] Thomson Reuters shares are cross listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI).
Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of the British company Reuters Group in April 2008,[7] and is majority owned by The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family.[8] Thomson Reuters was ranked as Canada's 'leading corporate brand' in the 2010 Interbrand Best Canadian Brands ranking.[9] Thomson Reuters operates in more than 100 countries, and has more than 45,000 employees.[3]
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History[edit]
The Thomson Corporation[edit]
The forerunner of the Thomson company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario as the publisher of The Timmins Daily Press. In 1953, Thomson acquired the Scotsman newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year. He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957 when he won the franchise for Scottish Television. In 1959, he bought the Kemsley Group, a purchase that eventually gave him control of the Sunday Times. He separately acquired the Times in 1967. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquired Britannia Airways and into oil and gas exploration in 1971 when he participated in a consortium to exploit reserves in the North Sea. In the 1970s, following the death of Thomson, the company withdrew from national newspapers and broadcast media, selling the Times, the Sunday Times and Scottish Television and instead moved into publishing, buying Sweet & Maxwell in 1988. The company at this time was known as the International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL).[10]
In 1989, ITOL merged with Thomson Newspapers, forming The Thomson Corporation. In 1996, The Thomson Corporation acquired West Publishing, a purveyor of legal research and solutions including Westlaw.[11]
Reuters Group[edit]
The Company was founded by Paul Julius Reuter in 1851 in London as a business transmitting stock market quotations.[11] Reuter set up his 'Submarine Telegraph' office in October 1851 and negotiated a contract with the London Stock Exchange to provide stock prices from the continental exchanges in return for access to London prices, which he then supplied to stockbrokers in Paris, France.[11] In 1865, Reuters in London was the first organization to report the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[11] The company was involved in developing the use of radio in 1923.[11] It was acquired by the British National & Provincial Press in 1941 and first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984.[11] Reuters began to grow rapidly in the 1980s, widening the range of its business products and expanding its global reporting network for media, financial and economic services: key product launches included Equities 2000 (1987), Dealing 2000-2 (1992), Business Briefing (1994), Reuters Television for the financial markets (1994), 3000 Series (1996) and the Reuters 3000 Xtra service (1999).[11]
Thomson acquisition of Reuters[edit]
The Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters Group PLC to form Thomson Reuters on April 17, 2008.[12] Thomson Reuters operated under a dual-listed company (“DLC”) structure and had two parent companies, both of which were publicly listed — Thomson Reuters Corporation and Thomson Reuters PLC. In 2009, it unified its dual listed company structure and stopped its listing on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. It is now listed only as Thomson Reuters Corporation on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: TRI).[13][14]
On February 13, 2013, Thomson Reuters announced it would cut 2,500 jobs to cut cost in its Legal, Financial and Risk division.[15] On October 29, 2013, Thomson Reuters announced it would cut another 3,000 jobs, mostly in those same three divisions.[16]
Market position and Thomson Reuters merger antitrust review[edit]
Thomson Reuters Building as seen from Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
The Thomson-Reuters merger transaction was reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and by the European Commission. On February 19, 2008, both the Department of Justice and the Commission cleared the transaction subject to minor divestments.[17] The Department of Justice required the parties to sell copies of the data contained in the following products: Thomson's WorldScope, a global fundamentals product; Reuters Estimates, an earnings estimates product; and Reuters Aftermarket (Embargoed) Research Database, an analyst research distribution product. The proposed settlement further requires the licensing of related intellectual property, access to personnel, and transitional support to ensure that the buyer of each set of data can continue to update its database so as to continue to offer users a viable and competitive product.[18] The European Commission imposed similar divestments: according to the Commission's press release, 'the parties committed to divest the databases containing the content sets of such financial information products, together with relevant assets, personnel and customer base as appropriate to allow purchasers of the databases and assets to quickly establish themselves as a credible competitive force in the marketplace in competition with the merged entity, re-establishing the pre-merger rivalry in the respective fields.'[19]
These remedies were viewed as very minor given the scope of the transaction. According to the Financial Times, 'the remedy proposed by the competition authorities will affect no more than $25m of the new Thomson Reuters group’s $13bn-plus combined revenues.'[20]
The transaction was cleared by the Canadian Competition Bureau.[21]
In November 2009, The European Commission opened formal anti-trust proceedings[22] against Thomson Reuters concerning a potential infringement of the EC Treaty's rules on abuse of a dominant market position (Article 82). The Commission investigated Thomson Reuters' practices in the area of real-time market datafeeds, and in particular whether customers or competitors were prevented from translating Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) to alternative identification codes of other datafeed suppliers (so-called 'mapping') to the detriment of competition. In December 2012, the European Commission adopted a decision that renders legally binding the commitments offered by Thomson Reuters to create a new licence ('ERL') allowing customers, for a monthly fee, to use Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in applications for data sourced from Thomson Reuters' real time consolidated datafeed competitors to which they have moved.[23]
Reuters purchase process[edit]
New York Building as seen from Times Square.
Historically, no single individual has been permitted to own more than 15% of Reuters, under the first of the Reuters Principles, which states, 'Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group or faction.'[24] However, that restriction was waived for the purchase by Thomson, whose family holding company, the Woodbridge Company currently owns 53% of the enlarged business. Robert Peston, business editor at BBC News, stated that this has worried Reuters journalists, both because they are concerned that Reuters' journalism business will be marginalized by the financial data provision business of the combined company, and because of the threat to Reuters's reputation for unbiased journalism by the appearance of one majority shareholder.
Pehr Gyllenhammar, chairman of the Reuters Founders Share Company, explained that the Reuters Trust's First Principle had been waived for the Thomson family because of the poor financial circumstances that Reuters had been in, stating, 'The future of Reuters takes precedence over the principles. If Reuters were not strong enough to continue on its own, the principles would have no meaning.' He stated, not having met David Thomson but having discussed the matter with Geoff Beattie, the president of Woodbridge, that the Thomson family had agreed to vote as directed by the Reuters Founders Share Company on any matter that the trustees might deem to threaten the five principles of the Reuters Trust. Woodbridge will be allowed an exemption from the First Principle as long as it remains controlled by the Thomson family.[25][26][27][28]
Operations[edit]
The chief executive of the combined company is James C. Smith, who was the chief executive for the professional division, and the chairman is David Thomson.[29][30][31]
The company in 2018 was organized around four divisions:[32]
- Legal
- Reuters News Agency
- Tax & Accounting
- Government
Former divisions:
- Intellectual Property & Science
- Financial & Risk
- Thomson Healthcare
- Scholarly & Scientific Research
As of 2018, the Financial & Risk division makes for over half of the company's revenue.[33]
Thomson Reuters competes with Bloomberg L.P., in aggregating financial and legal news.[34]
Acquisitions and divestitures[edit]
Between 2008 and 2018, Thomson Reuters completed over 200 acquisitions.[33]
- 2009
- In July, Thomson Reuters acquired Streamlogics.[35] Founded in 1999, Streamlogics is a provider of customizable, high volume, real time data mining solutions [36] for hundreds of enterprises across several verticals including financial services, technology and health care/life sciences. Streamlogics' webcasting solutions are used for training and certification, marketing and lead generation, and corporate communications.[37]
- In August, it bought Vhayu Technologies. Vhayu is a provider of tick data services, and Thomson Reuters had been distributing its Velocity product under the Reuters Tick Capture Engine label for the four years prior to the acquisition.[38]
- On September 21, 2009, Thomson Reuters bought Hugin Group, the European IR and PR distribution group, from NYSE Euronext. Terms have not been disclosed, but it has been reported in Danish newspapers that the price was between €40 million and €42m.[39]
- In September, it also bought the Abacus software business from Deloitte, a provider of corporate taxation software for the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, as well as Indirect Tax Reporting software for 20 E.U. countries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.[40]
- In October, Thomson Reuters acquired Breaking Views[41]
- In November, The Tax & Accounting business acquired Sabrix, Inc, a global provider of transaction tax management software applications and related services.[42]
- 2010
- In January, Thomson Reuters acquired Discovery Logic[43]
- In February, Thomson Reuters acquired Aegisoft LLC to improve their electronic trading capabilities by offering direct market access.[44] Also in February, it acquired the legal ranking system Super Lawyers.[45]
- In May, it acquired Point Carbon A/S, a Norwegian company that provides news and trading analytics for the energy and environmental markets.[46]
- In June, it acquired Complinet, a compliance software company.[47]
- In October, it acquired Serengeti Law, a matter management and ebilling system.
- On November 22, it acquired the legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider Pangea3. Financial Terms of the deal were not disclosed.[48]
- In November, it also acquired the banking data and analytic provider Highline Financial, and GeneGo, a supplier of systems biology databases, software and services.[49]
- 2011
- On 20 June 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired CorpSmart from Deloitte.[50]
- On July 18, 2011 Thomson Reuters acquired Manatron from Thoma Bravo.[51]
- In August 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired GFMS.[52]
- In December 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired Emochila, a website development firm founded by Chad Brubaker and Justin Curzi in the tax and accounting space, in order to further integrate its CS suite of products onto a cloud-based platform.[53]
- 2012
- In January 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Dr Tax, Canada’s largest independently owned developer of income tax software for accounting firms and consumers.[54][55]
- In February 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired RedEgg, a provider of media intelligence solutions for public relations and marketing professionals.[56]
- On March 22, it acquired BizActions, a digital newsletter and Web marketing providers for accounting firms in North America[57]
- On 8 June 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Apsmart, a London-based company specializing in design and development of mobile solutions.[58]
- On 25 June 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired Zawya Limited, a regional provider of business intelligence and unique tools for financial professionals in the Middle East and North Africa .[59]
- On 10 July 2012, Thomson Reuters acquired FX Alliance Inc, an independent provider of electronic foreign exchange trading solutions to corporations and asset managers.[60]
- In July, it also acquired Dofiscal[61]
- On 26 July 2012, Thomson Reuters announced acquisition of MarkMonitor, a San Francisco-based company specializing in internet brand protection software and services.[62]
- 2013
- On January 3, 2013, Thomson announced that it was to acquire Practical Law Company, the London-based provider of practical legal know-how and workflow tools to law firms and corporate law departments. Practical Law Company has more than 750 employees, with principal operations in London and New York, and will be part of the Legal business of Thomson Reuters.[63]
- On 16 April 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired Select TaxWorks Assets of RedGear Technologies.[64]
- On 6 June 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired Pricing Partners, a provider of OTC Derivatives Pricing Analytics and independent valuation.[65]
- On 2 July 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired the foreign exchange options business of Tradeweb.[66]
- On August 16, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired the foreign exchange options risk management technology provider SigmaGenix.[67]
- On August 18, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired a majority stake in Omnesys Technologies[68] and acquired completely the company on September 16, 2013 [69]
- In August, it also acquired WeComply.[70]
- On September 10, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired the CPE and CPA Division of Bisk Education Inc [71] and Kortes.[72]
- On October 23, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired Entagen, acquiring the Cortellis family of products for drug pipeline, deals, patents, and company content.[73]
- On December 10, 2013, Thomson Reuters acquired Avedas and expands its scholarly-research analytics solution.[74]
- 2014
- In February, Thomson Reuters acquired Brazil's Domínio Sistemas, a company focused on developing accounting solutions.[75]
- On July 1, 2014, Thomson Reuters acquired UBS Convertible Indices.[76]
- In October, Thomson Reuters sold its PE/VC media assets (including PEHub and Venture Capital Journal) to UCG.[77]
- 2015
- In January, Thomson Reuters acquired K'Origin.[78]
- In September, Thomson Reuters acquired Business Integrity Ltd.[79]
- 2016
- In April, Thomson Reuters acquired Wm Reuters Foreign Exchange benchmarks from State Street Corporation.[80]
- In July, Thomson Reuters announced it would be selling its Intellectual Property and Science business (including Web of Science, MarkMonitor and EndNote) to private equity funds.[81][33] The newly independent business is Clarivate Analytics.[82]
- 2017
- In January, Thomson Reuters acquired REDI allowing Thomson Reuters to incorporate an advanced, cross-asset execution management system (EMS) into its buy-side trading capabilities and deliver integrated trading workflow solutions to the buy-side community. [83]
- In March, Thomson Reuters acquired the Avox and Clarient businesses from DTCC[84][85][86]
- 2018
- In January 2018, Thomson Reuters announced it was divesting its financial and risk unit to US private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. Thomson Reuters will retain 45% of the divested unit, keep the Reuters brand and will continue to deliver Reuters news and editorial content to the new divested unit. The joint venture will be branded as Refinitiv. The deal will fund the Reuters business for the next 30 years.[87]David Thomson is said to oppose the deal,[88] and the transaction was approved by the EU commission on July, 23, 2018.[89]
- In October 2018, Thomson Reuters announced to acquire Integration Point, an international leader in global trade management (GTM) operations.[90]
Sponsorships[edit]
Thomson Reuters has sponsored Canadian golf champion Mike Weir and the AT&T WilliamsFormula One team. It also sponsors Marketplace, a radio show from American Public Media.
Thomson Reuters, among other media corporations, also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.[91]
See also[edit]
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- Ovide, Shira (July 26, 2011). 'Crunch Time at Thomson Reuters'. Wall Street Journal. 'CEO Glocer Is Under Pressure After Restructuring Backed by Controlling Family'.
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Bloomberg vs. Reuters: An Overview
The onset of the digital revolution cultivated new ways to access information, leading to cutting edge information platforms in Bloomberg and Reuters. In the modern day, both Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters have become associated with the fastest and most credible digital information sources in the financial industry while growing together to carve out a unique sourcing niche.
Groove music won t play. These two companies rival the traditional news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Financial Times. Gta 5 what is jp and rp. Their services have evolved to offer users much more than just the news headlines. Core users of these two companies look to their offerings to find the most up-to-the-minute information available on trading metrics throughout the trading day.
As such, both companies are known for their robust multimedia platforms, with key differentiators in their Bloomberg Terminal versus Thomson Reuters Eikon offerings. Overall, professionals look to these unique source offerings in the finance industry because the financial sourcing they provide can mean the difference between millions of dollars in profits.
Key Takeaways
- Bloomberg and Reuters operate in a unique digital sourcing niche.
- These two platforms rival the traditional news outlets through their extension of in-depth, real-time market data.
- Bloomberg and Reuters are primarily suited to institutional professionals.
- Competition for the Bloomberg Terminal versus the Thomson Eikon is fierce as each develops new features tailored for institutional professionals.
- Depending on individual needs and budgets, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Morningstar, and YCharts are viable alternatives to Bloomberg Terminal and Thomson Eikon subscriptions.
Bloomberg LP
Michael Bloomberg established Bloomberg in 1981. Before his political career, Michael Bloomberg was a well-known name on Wall Street. After being laid off from the investment bank he had worked at for 20 years, Bloomberg launched his business information platform. Bloomberg LP provided quick, high-quality business information to Wall Street. In the early 80s, the company sold its first financial information system to Merrill Lynch, now a part of Bank of America (BAC).
Today, Bloomberg LP is not only known for Bloomberg Terminal, but it has become a global multimedia entity as well. The financial news and media company includes Bloomberg News, weekly magazine Bloomberg Businessweek, as well as radio and television broadcasts. Even with a vast array of products and services, the Bloomberg Terminal continues to be Bloomberg LP’s core revenue-generating product.
Bloomberg Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal is an integral piece of software within the finance industry that is used to access financial information. In its initial phases, the platform was a physical terminal. However, over the years, the terminal has transformed into a remote software system that is accessible anywhere.
Many companies rely on the terminal to analyze individual securities, market movements, and monitor news. An extension, Bloomberg Tradebook, allows formal trade execution through its messaging service. Traders, portfolio managers, and risk management analysts, among other financial professionals, rely on the program for daily market analysis and trading decisions. Currently, there are over 325,000 subscriptions worldwide.
Thomson Reuters
Created from the Thomson Corporation's 2008 acquisition of Reuters, Thomson Reuters is a multinational media and financial information resource. Thomson Reuters prides itself on delivering leading intel on various sectors, from finance, tax, and accounting to legal and intellectual property.
In 2011, Thomson Reuters moved beyond the realm of financial news with the release of a more affordable option to the Bloomberg Terminal: Thomson Reuters Eikon. Like Bloomberg Terminal, Eikon is a software system used to monitor and analyze financial information. Eikon provides financial professionals with access to market data, analytics, and messaging tools. Information can also be exported to Microsoft Excel for continued data analysis.
Furthermore, Eikon can use all tweets on a given subject to identify positive or negative indicators. Unstructured data from social media sources have been vital in identifying trends over the past decade, but few platforms, other than Eikon, have been able to collect and analyze this data.
Key Differences—Comparing Market Metrics
Eikon and Bloomberg Terminal are the two most used business information platforms in the world. According to an article on 'FinExtra.com,' as of 2017, Bloomberg had a 33.2% market share in the financial data provider industry while Reuters owned 22.5%. Financial education provider 'WallStreetPrep.com' states that Bloomberg has 325,301 users while Eikon has approximately 190,000 users. The remaining market share is primarily comprised of FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, and Morningstar Direct.
Bloomberg Terminal has 325,301 users while Eikon has approximately 190,000.
For individuals who work at large financial institutions, the cost of either program is probably negligible. However, for higher education institutions, government agencies, and small businesses the costs are staggering. Bloomberg Terminal is the most expensive among financial data providers, at $24,000 per year. For customers with two or more subscriptions, Bloomberg charges $20,000 per year. By comparison, a fully loaded version of Eikon costs $22,000, and a discounted version costs $3,600.
While Bloomberg Terminal and Thomson Reuters Eikon are far and away the two most popular platforms in this space, there are several less expensive substitutes. FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Morningstar Inc., and YCharts are all viable alternatives. The choice depends on one’s needs and budget.
After Bloomberg and Eikon, FactSet and Capital IQ are the next two most popular financial data platforms for professionals. For smaller more personal use, YCharts offers a lite and professional version. These subscriptions are geared toward individual investors and the Ychart professional service is better suited for small businesses. Morningstar offers both free and paid content for individual investors and businesses. Lastly, when in doubt, Google and Yahoo Finance provide financial information for free.
In yet another sign of the mainstreaming of cryptocurrencies, financial data provider Thomson Reuters has partnered with crypto data and analytics company CryptoCompare to provide order book and trade data for 50 cryptocurrencies on the former’s financial desktop platform, Eikon.
Charles Hayter, CEO and founder of CryptoCompare, said the partnership would provide transparency to the market. “This partnership provides a great opportunity for the institutional investor community to access not only our data, but also to benefit from our experience and insight,” he said.
“Despite the decline in the price of many of the leading cryptocurrencies during 2018, we continue to see increasing demand from our customers for pricing coverage of the major names. The partnership with CryptoCompare puts pricing data for this emerging market alongside other asset classes, giving our customers a more comprehensive, holistic trading view in Eikon,” said Sam Chadwick, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Reuters. He also told Forbes that the integration of cryptocurrency data would help educate and inform other organizations and industries interested in funding cryptocurrencies: “We are also starting to see more evolved organizations other than startups using smart contracts and distributed ledger technology to raise capital,” he said. “This is moving the scale into the private equity space.”
Reuters already offers sentiment data related to cryptocurrencies from social media on its feed. Bloomberg, another major news and data organization, also provides cryptocurrency data to subscribers and has plans to launch a cryptocurrency index. (See also: Bloomberg To Launch Cryptocurrency Index).
How The Integration Of Data Benefits Investors
The integration of data from CryptoCompare into Reuters’ data feed is a major win for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. In addition to making cryptocurrency data accessible to mainstream and institutional investors, the move will also bring transparency to crypto markets by sourcing it from trusted organizations. Cryptocurrency exchanges have operated outside the purview of regulatory organizations, so far. This has led to questions about the integrity of their data and operations. Thomson Reuters’ involvement in broadcasting this data will ensure greater accountability and oversight. (See also: Should Cryptocurrency Exchanges Self-Regulate?)
Investing in cryptocurrencies and other Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') is highly risky and speculative, and this article is not a recommendation by Investopedia or the writer to invest in cryptocurrencies or other ICOs. Since each individual's situation is unique, a qualified professional should always be consulted before making any financial decisions. Investopedia makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or timeliness of the information contained herein. As of the date this article was written, the author owns small amounts of bitcoin and litecoin.
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