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FTSE Group
12th Fl., 10 Upper Bank St., Canary Wharf
London E14 5NP, United Kingdom
Tel. +44-20-7866-1800
Fax +44-20-7866-1804

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.ftse.com
Employees: 160

Wanna play FTSE? FTSE (pronounced footsie) Group partners with some 15 stock exchanges and several financial firms to create and manage an assortment of indices and affiliated services. It caters to pension plan sponsors, brokers, investment banks, and fund managers in more than 75 countries across the globe. FTSE calculates some 100,000 indices daily; its most notable is the FTSE UK Series that is comprised of the FTSE 100 Index, an index of the UK's largest and most well-known companies. Investors use FTSE's indices as a road map for investment analysis, asset allocation, and a measure on performance. It was established in 1995 as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $114.0M

Officers:
Chief Executive: Mark Makepeace
COO: Paul Grimes
Finance Director: Tim Ward

Competitors:
TRADEBOOK
Euronext
London Stock Exchange

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FTSE International Ltd.
Type Private (50/50 joint venture of Financial Times and London Stock Exchange Group)
Founded 1995
Headquarters London, England, UK
Key people Mark Makepeace, CEO
Industry Finance
Products Financial indices
Revenue £42 million GBP (2007)[1]
Net income £3.8 million GBP (2007)[1]
Website www.ftse.com

FTSE Group (pronounced /ˈfʊtsi/, as if written footsie) is a British provider of stock market indices and associated data services, operating out of premises in Canary Wharf.

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FTSE operates the well known FTSE 100 Index and FTSE 250 Index as well as over 100,000 other indices, including 600 real-time indices. There are currently seven main groups of indices: Global Equity, Regional and Partner, Fixed Income, Real Estate, Alternative Investment, Responsible Investment, and Investment Strategy. Fees from the use of index information and associated services generate revenues necessary to continue operations. FTSE has offices in London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

History

The FTSE was created in 2002, and Tokyo in 2003.

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