THOMSON REUTERS PRESENTATION TEMPLATE

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THOMSON REUTERS MARKETS OUR CONTENT
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION THAT POWERS THE WORLDS
MARKETS APRIL 2009
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THOMSON REUTERS MARKETS A CONTENT POWERHOUSE
The April 2008 merger of Thomson Financial and
Reuters brought together an unrivalled suite of
content that serves every sector of the
financial markets from asset management to
foreign exchange and the diverse needs of every
participant from global players to individuals.
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THE IMMENSE SCOPE OF OUR CONTENT

• Our content crosses every geography, every traded
  instrument and nearly every piece of data used in
  trading or investment decisions
• Data spans 2.9 million organizations and 12.5
  million instruments
• Real-time prices distributed from 250 global
  exchanges
• Over 7,000 non-exchange sources contribute
  information
• Every ten seconds, our integrated data network
  processes almost 340,000 updates
• Data on some 50,000 active companies, including
  1,700 in the Middle East, represents over 95 of
  the worlds market value
• Unparalleled and continuous historical coverage
  back as far as 30 years or more throughout our
  content collection
• More than 200 unique databases and 72 million
  unique records
• Our data cache rivals the 20 million books of the
  U.S. Library of Congress in digital format

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OUR CONTENT A-Z

• Capital Market Transactions (Deals) and League
  Tables
• Company Events, Delta, Guidance, Transcripts
• Contacts and Profiles of Financial Firms and
  Pros
• Commodities and Energy
• Corporate Actions
• Counterparty Data
• Estimates Detail, Summary, History, Aggregates
• Economics
• Evaluated Prices
• Exchange-traded Prices, Volume, Trades, Indices

• Fixed Income Terms Conditions, OTC
  Contributions, CDS
• Fundamentals Financials, Descriptive, Industry
  Metrics
• Funds
• Foreign Exchange and Money
• Ownership Holdings and Insider Transactions
• Private Company Data
• Private and Public Company Officers, Directors
  and Executives
• Private Equity Profiles, Investments and
  Performance

• Public Filings
• Research Company, Market, Credit
• Symbology and Entity Management
• Time Series (Historical Market Data)
  Commodities, Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income,
  Funds, Indices, Market Statistics
• and each content area spans varied subsets,
  geographies and histories, with value-added,
  derived data throughout

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DELIVERING INTELLIGENT INFORMATION

• Workflow and production re-engineering
• De-duplication and removal of legacy systems
• Right-sourcing and architecture
• Adoption of auto-ingest and automation
  capabilities
• Third-party data ingest
• Business continuity
• Quality assurance
• Centralize and build on the best of breed
  across Thomson Reuters assets

Data Extraction Data Standardization Indexing Tag
ging Coding Data Cleansing XML Conversion
PROPRIETARY DATA
EXCHANGES
REUTERS NEWS, ANALYST REPORTS
APPLICATIONS FEEDS WEB SERVICES APIs
COMPANY AND GOVT DOCUMENTS
ECONOMIC AGENCIES
THIRD PARTY DATA CONTRIBUTED DATA
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DELIVERING INTELLIGENT INFORMATION

• Data validation upon ingestion
• Data field and cross-field validation
• Exception reporting, supplier checks and SLAs
• Quality control activities
• Dedicated hundreds-strong data quality team
• Routine analyst work checks and embedded quality
  checks
• Analyst education and training

• Quality assurance focus
• Macro database audits, product views, and
  external comparisons
• Metrics and accountability reporting
• Business process reviews, Data Quality Working
  Groups
• Six Sigma program
• Customer and query support

TYPICAL DATA QUALITY PROCESSES AN EARNINGS
ESTIMATE
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THOMSON REUTERS MARKETS OUR CONTENT PROMISE
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION
DIFFERENTIATED OFFERINGS
DATA YOU CAN TRUST
Human intelligence, industry expertise and
innovative technology to provide decision makers
with the knowledge to act
Unique, derived content, added-value capabilities
and powerful comprehensiveness make us a valued
partner
We are committed to delivering reliable data of
the highest quality with round-the-clock
support, whenever you may need us
BREADTH AND DEPTH
EXPERTISE
ACTING LOCALLY,THINKING GLOBALLY
Widely recognised as offering the broadest
coverage of data across all the asset classes,
across the globe
We know what data matters and awards for our
FX, Money, CE and Company content highlight our
expertise in managing the complex systems that
store data
With thousands of data expertsin major global
locations, were positioned to secure the
accurate, timely, comprehensive data you need
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