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Dow Jones Partner Compliance and Certification Program

The Dow Jones Certification Program aims to improve end users interaction with news and encourage all Dow Jones Newswires distribution partners to meet benchmarked standards of news functionality.

There are four levels of certification—Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum—each level based on the adoption of the recommendations outlined in the Dow Jones Best Practice document. View the list of Bronze level certification requirements.

Below are examples of vendors who have achieved Bronze certification:

 

Bureau van Dijk (BvD)

Bureau van Dijk (BvD) bundle onto every access to their News Databases a customized subset of the Dow Jones Financial Wire service which provides in-depth international company news coverage in real-time excluding trader headlines and Market Talk snippets.

FactSet (Marquee)

The Marquee terminal integrates streaming market data with the FactSet desktop. The terminal bundles Dow Jones Global Premium Investment News (GPIN), the Dow Jones Financial Wire is available as a premium upgrade from GPIN and Dow Jones MarketBeat, an optional service for users who want cross market commentary and technical analysis.

Fidessa

(Fidessa Workstation)—Fidessa Group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world’s financial markets. Workstation provides access to comprehensive market information, news and fundamental data coupled with powerful display and analysis tools.

Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG (IS.Slider)

IS.Slider is the professional Financial Desktop by Interactive Data Managed Solutions for private banking and asset management. It addresses sophisticated information needs by aggregating essential market data into a single online workspace. Focusing on fast and efficient data retrieval as well as workflow optimization, it strategically enhances efficiency and service levels.

Logaviv

(WS/D Master)—Logaviv S.A. (formally Plantureux S.A.) is an international brokerage company based near Paris and specialised in agricultural commodities. The WS/D Master terminal provides the whole of Logaviv services such as market analysis reports, cash price, graphs, balance as well as financial information and news. The WS/D Master terminal bundles the Dow Jones AgriWire service as well as a bespoke news.

OILspace (OILWatch)

OILwatch from OILspace is the energy market information and analysis resource that allows users to maximize trading potential in the supply chain. OILwatch carries the Dow Jones Newswires Oil and Gas service.

Six Telekurs

(Telekurs iD)—As the third largest provider of financial information in Europe, SIX Telekurs specializes in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information for investment advisory services, fund administration, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration. Telekurs iD provides easy access to real-time prices for more than 2.3 million instruments in all leading financial centres.

Thomson Reuters

(Thomson One)—The Thomson One workstation bundles the Dow Jones Financial Wire service and a local language service depending on the region. A range of other Dow Jones news and commentary products, including MarketBeat, are available as fee liable optional services.

 

 

To achieve Bronze level certification, vendor information systems have to include the following functionality:

  • Highlighting important market moving news through the use of hot headlines—Users should be able to tell at a glance which headlines are the most important.
  • Correctly chaining multi-part news stories—Pulls together all the takes of a news items. Saves time to users searching through large volume of headlines to find all the parts of the story.
  • The ability to perform a quick keyword-in-headline search—Helps find the most relevant news amongst a large volume of headlines.
  • The ability to perform a quick instrument or code search—Helps search for Dow Jones exclusive features with Dow Jones codes. The implementation of a NewsPlus/Top Story button—Enables subscribers of a Dow Jones premium service to easily access a companion Web site as part of their subscription.
  • The Implementation of a news notation in Watch Lists—Means users need not have a news window open to know when news is published on their portfolio.
  • The ability to save searches/filters—Saves users having to repeat frequently used searches.