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Quick Corp.
Native name
株式会社QUICK
FoundedOctober 1, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-10-01)
HeadquartersNihonbashi Mitsui Tower, ,
Japan
Revenue30.2 billion yen (2015)
Owner
Number of employees
653 (2016)
Websitecorporate.quick.co.jp/en/

Quick Corp. (株式会社QUICK) (sometimes stylised "QUICK") is a financial market information vendor headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1971 as Quotation Information Center K.K. (株式会社市況情報センター), and changed its corporate name to the acronym "QUICK" in 1987.[1][2] Quick has four offices in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka) as well as overseas offices in London and Hong Kong.[3]

Services

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Quick developed one of the three major Japanese real-time news database services in the 1980s (along with Jiji News Wire and Nikkei Telecom).[4]

Quick is responsible for calculating several Japanese financial market indices, including the well-known Nikkei 225 stock market index.[5] Quick also publishes "Quick Consensus" data based on corporate earnings and macroeconomic forecasts published by securities firms and analytics companies.[6]

In 2016, Quick introduced AI-based technology to automatically "read" corporate news releases and instantly generate news reports based on the contents.[7] In the same year, Quick announced a strategic equity investment in the US fintech startup Xignite, which provides cloud-based market data to financial institutions, with the goal of offering the technology to customers in Asia.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ "History – 株式会社QUICK:Our Knowledge, Your Value. | Quick Corp". corporate.quick.co.jp. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  2. ^ "沿革 | 株式会社QUICK:情報を価値あるものに". 株式会社QUICK:情報を価値あるものに (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  3. ^ "事業所・グループ会社紹介 | 株式会社QUICK:情報を価値あるものに". 株式会社QUICK:情報を価値あるものに (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  4. ^ Fukushima, Yoshinao (1990). "A Case Study of Online Business Database Service in Japan". Japanese Information in Science, Technology, and Commerce: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Held by Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung in Co-operation with Japanisch Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz: 290.
  5. ^ "About QUICK – 株式会社QUICK:Our Knowledge, Your Value. | Quick Corp". corporate.quick.co.jp. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  6. ^ "野村證券 | QUICKコンセンサス(証券用語解説集)". 野村證券 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  7. ^ "QUICK、AI使った速報ニュースを配信 きょうから". www.nikkei.com (in Japanese). The Nikkei. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  8. ^ "Xignite Funding Round Opens Door to Asian Markets | Intelligent Trading Technology". intelligenttradingtechnology.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  9. ^ "Xignite raises $20.5m". Finextra Research. 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
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